How Does Your Company Measure Up?: The Business Continuity Management (BCM) Maturity Model

When requesting budget to improve a person's business continuity plan, when a client seeks reassurance that the person's company will be able to continue to meet it's needs, when a financial partner needs to know that the person's company is prepared for possible business disruptions, a "Yardstick" by which to measure the person's level of preparedness could prove invaluable. Business continuity has evolved over the last 40+ years. The Business Continuity Institute and Disaster Recovery Institute have published Professional Practice Standards to define and certify Business Continuity Professionals. What the industry lacks is a method by which an organization's Business Continuity Program can be measured.