Business continuity in a large public sector organisation

Headlines…Never a shortage

Auckland Monopoly’s misspelled street

Auckland Council…

RWC 2011, Opening Night, Auckland city centre

The Cloud, Auckland Waterfront

City centre marches

Jwaneng Mine, Botswana

Centenary Game Capture Centre in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, Kwa Zulu Natal

PDCA Cycle

Plan : Most important and the hardest

Do : Implement the Plan

Check : Validate how good is the plan. Gather lessons learnt

Act : Incorporate improvements into the plan

Develop a BCP addressing key risks

Have a defined risk mitigation strategy

Include your suppliers and customers

Have a clearly defined communications

strategy

Exercise your plans

Risk Mitigations

Lessons Learnt

If its not happening to you its happening to

someone else – research events

Have a health check – step away from the

woods

Spend time on the business - not in it

Incorporate learnings into your business

Plan v Planning…

Dwight D Eisenhower on the D day

landings stated:

“…a plan is nothing; planning is

everything”