Are you getting optimal outcomes for your organizational resilience & business continuity plans?  Do you even have a way to measure this?  Don't worry, we have a short infographic that can show you the 5 things you need to consider when managing a disaster recovery & organizational resilience program. This infographic demonstrates these 5 critical components: Design for repeatability Anticipate change The roles in the enterprise Build engagement Analytics ..read more

Virtual Corporation is excited to be a Silver sponsor at DRJ Fall 2021. Stop by our booth #301/303 to learn about how Virtual Corporation specializes in partnering to develop and sustain repeatable, practical continuity capabilities. Our methods, software tools, and templates are highly scalable and easy to use across sectors ..read more

In this session, Michael Beth, Host and BCM Practice Lead for Virtual Corporations Professional Services, shares some ideas on how to manage, grow and mature a BCM&DR program with limited funding and staff ..read more

While most organizations understand the need for a business continuity management program, the costs of the program can begin to outweigh the need after a few years of engagement. To many executives, BCM is viewed as a vacuum, sucking in cash, and providing little to no return. Often, a decision is made to end the program, only for an incident to occur shortly after. This could result in loss of revenue and the business could potentially end up going out of business.  ..read more

If COVID-19 has taught the business world anything, it's that business continuity tools are essential to ensuring the operation of everyday processes when the world is turned upside down. Stay-at-home orders paired with an overwhelming number of abroad or overseas employees have meant that the need for constant digital communication, sharing, and incident management ability has drastically increased. Throughout the pandemic, businesses across the globe have turned to their BCM plans in an effort to restore and maintain order, and five specific BCM tools have stood out above the rest and enabl ..read more

Virtual Corporation is excited to be a sponsor at DRJ Spring 2021. Stop by our virtual booth to learn about how Virtual Corporation specializes in partnering to develop and sustain repeatable, practical continuity capabilities. Our methods, software tools, and templates are highly scalable and easy to use across sectors ..read more

Most businesses today rely heavily on their IT systems to access and store vital data that is needed to complete daily tasks. Computers, servers, files, communication tools, and more help modern enterprises stay connected with their clients and customers and enable their teams to advance towards corporate goals. But what happens when disaster strikes, and these crucial systems go down? If your enterprise has a disaster recovery plan, you’re on the right track, but these plans don’t always go into the details of how your business will operate and regain access to your data during an outage. To ..read more

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Conducting Business Continuity (BC) exercises are a well-known means of validating BC plans and engaging an organization in assessing their response to business disruptive events. One of the biggest challenges of planning a meaningful exercise that engages participants and results in a renewed understanding of recovery roles and improvements to the plan, is to construct a fresh, relevant, and plausible exercise scenario ..read more

Fifty-one percent of organizations surveyed by Mercer Consulting were caught without business continuity plans when the current COVID pandemic erupted. Moreover, other surveys revealed the potentiality and impact of a pandemic were virtually ignored. Low priority and insufficient investment in business continuity continue to jeopardize the business resiliency of many companies ..read more