Talk:Business continuity

on business continuity
I would like to see a lot more detail on the Business Continuity page. There is a list of components, but no detail as to what they are. Also, there is no mention of identifing business functions  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Derhexer (talk • contribs) 23:36, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Merging & Redirection
Business Continuity and Business Continuity Planning whilst related are two separate subjects, one refers to what Business Continuity is, the nature of success, the nature of failure and the content itself - the other refers to planning to achieve such thing. Therefore, whilst related they are in fact very different subjects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.60.105.237 (talk) 13:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I have added some additional text for each of the components of business continuity, and I will continue to add to this page as I have time. Dana French, Mt Xia Inc. Aug 4, 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.171.225.24 (talk) 18:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I have provided an explanation between the terms "Business Continuity", "Business Continuity Planning", and "Disaster Recovery". This should clarify the differences between them. Dana French, Mt Xia Inc., Aug 01, 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.171.225.24 (talk) 19:01, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Please do not merge or redirect this article, as it's seperate from Business continuity planning, in that it deals with the general subject, rather than specifically the planning aspect of business continuity. -- Lee Carré 01:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd like to raise the merge with BCP issue again as the two are so closely related and this article has yet to become anything more than 1 sentence in such a long time. BCP is a well formed, full article with much more info on the subject. I reverted spam and a new planning section as it's already covered over on BCP. --Breno talk 07:23, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I think there is a good case for coalescing all Business Continuity (BC) articles under a single heading of the same name. However, it is important to then set out that BC is very often (and I believe correctly) referred to as BC Management (BCM). Indeed, this is specifically mentioned in British Standards Institute (BSI) standard BS25999 which is the only national standard on BC anywhere in the world. As part of BCM one or more BC plans should be created and maintained. That is referred to as BC Planning (BCP). Going beyond this are other features ranging Business Impact Analysis to Recovery Options - that all exist under the umbrella of BC --Patrick56 (talk) 18:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The bold passage above is incorrect. NFPA 1600 exists as a recognized standard, and has been in existence longer than BS 25999. The ASIS/BSI standard ASIS/BSI BCM.01:2010 has been published (Dec 2010) and adds to the National Standards landscape. Work is also underway at ISO to publish an ISO Standard (ISO 22301) expected to be released late in Q4 2011 or early 2012 BCM adviser (talk) 10:54, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

This discussion is sprawling and there are many overlapping wikipedia articles. Since business continuity seems to the the umbrella term, I am creating subsections here to establish threads for discussing merge or differentiation from each related article. Please continue this discussion in a subsection. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 22:24, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge with Business continuity planning
Earlier in the discussion (main thread) it was stated that the difference between this article and Business continuity planning is that this article focuses on a core definition of what the thing is and the planning article focuses on one aspect, a description of how to achieve it in a specific instance. We seem to have accomplished this differentiation in this article except for the defining sentence in the article summary. The article summary states, "Business continuity is the planning and preparation of a company to...". Would it not be more appropriate to state, "Business continuity is the combined activities of a company to ..."? Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 22:24, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Distinction from Disaster recovery
I see that in the article Disaster recovery and Disaster recovery plan there is a stated subordinate relationship and differentiation from business continuity and business continuity plan, where disaster recovery is a sub-topic of the recovery aspect of business continuity. I'd like to maintain this alignment if it is correct. Is it correct? Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 22:24, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Disaster recovery and business continuity auditing
This other main article seems to be a mish-mash of three related subjects: Disaster recovery, business continuity, and auditing. I believe we should further discuss improvement of this article (separations, merges) within that article's talk page. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 22:24, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
Article appears to have been heavily edited by Dana French (User:Dfrench aka 12.171.225.24 and others) who has an obvious WP:COI. Article and external links should be reviewed for policy issues (e.g. WP:NPOV) before the tag is removed. -- samj in out 18:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Guidelines/Procedures
The "procedures" section is currently a worthless non-sequitur. It should explain what procedures are, how they are derived from policies and how they are used. "Guidelines" could also usefully be merged with "procedures" as they are in actuality merely non-mandatory procedures. It should also be stated that as such, guidelines are concentrations of risk because they introduce uncertainty into the conduct of processes, often under already hazardous circumstances. 212.159.59.5 (talk) 10:36, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

More merging
Disaster recovery is - as hinted at here - only a subset of b.c.. And the wordy Disaster recovery and business continuity auditing does a lot to dilute statements made in both main articles while not producing enough evidence for the independent role of auditing. -- Kku 06:23, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Disaster Recovery is usually confined to the approaches of restoring a service that is made up of technical components to a working state, after they have been affected or impacted by a localized event. Business continuity is usually addressing this and the other business resources like people, work space and communication components. So as the previous person suggests, DR is a subset of BC and really should be separate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:420:28D:1250:C479:8F70:5178:2A36 (talk) 20:12, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing given a stale discussion with no support for the merge. Klbrain (talk) 10:01, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Re-opening discussion. I feel we should continue discussion in the original thread, the section titled Business_continuity. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 19:16, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

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