BRPW May Meeting
“An Introduction to Adaptive Business Continuity”
with Mark Armour
Business continuity can be challenging a field to work in. Engagement and support of leadership is difficult to obtain. Measurement – beyond demonstrating conformity to standards – is elusive. And showing real world value is nearly impossible. What if there was a framework that re-imagined our approach to this work that did not include the traditional business continuity practices, such as risk assessments, impact analyses, and recovery plan development? Welcome to Adaptive Business Continuity! Whether or not you’ve heard of it or not, this will be a worthwhile introduction to an entirely new way of working and thinking about recovery planning. Before you attend, you are encouraged to open your mind and abandon all of your existing assumptions about organizational resilience and business continuity.
Mark Armour is a Resilience industry leader with over 20 years of experience in the field. Mark has been instrumental in the implementation and leadership of several global business continuity and crisis management programs. More importantly, Mark has been directly involved in corporate response and recovery for hundreds of events, from IT outages and natural disasters to pandemics.
Mark is the author, along with David Lindstedt, PhD, of the Adaptive Business Continuity Manifesto and the book, Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach. He has written articles for the Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning, the only peer reviewed publication in the profession. He has spoken on podcasts and at conferences, including Continuity Insights, Disaster Recovery Journal, the World Conference on Disaster Management and the ACP Leadership Council. He is currently the Sr. Director of Global Resilience at Brink’s, Incorporated, the worldwide leader in secure logistics and cash management solutions.
