The Noggin Blog

Beyond business continuity planning, the need to move to a business continuity management system

As a practice, Business Continuity Management aims to maintain essential functions in the event of a disaster or other, major disruption. Organizations get that. After all, they’ve poured time and money into developing business continuity management plans.

Business process management implementations, useful as they are, aren’t ends. They’re means. Organizations engage in those implementations to effect larger transformations. After all, businesses are looking to gain concrete outcomes, results like better alignment, increased agility, flexibility, and innovation, cost reduction, deprecation of legacy applications, better compliance management, etc. The question is: how can workflow automation help organizations secure those business benefits?

Talking to our partners every day, I feel their excitement when discussing the new Noggin 2.0 integrated safety and security platform. Going through a demo is proof positive of how the new intuitive approach of a mobile-first platform enables adding partner services and guaranteeing a mutually beneficial outcome.

The premier, comprehensive homeland security event in the nation, the 2019 National Homeland Security Conference brings together an impressive array of homeland security professionals. 

In Australia, environmental health and safety risk is getting critical. On the contemporary events broadcast, A Current Affair, respiratory physician, Dr Ryan Hoy singled out the silicosis crisis, calling it “unprecedented” – even warning that silicosis was worse than asbestosis.

When crises strike, leaders convene crisis management teams comprised of internal experts. You know, senior managers with the requisite professional and technical expertise to deal with the critical event at hand.

The case for interoperability, especially the efficient transfer of relevant data between agencies, couldn’t be clearer. For one, any number of after-action reports have cited a lack of interagency cooperation as contributing to mission setbacks, even historic failures. 

The data shows that automating and streamlining business processes help organizations realize extraordinary productivity gains. There’s a revenue implication, here, too. Firms get to reduce costs driven by process inefficiencies. But how do workflows and business process management materialize into topline business gains. Our workflows and business process management primer gives you the rundown.

Managing safety risks, ensuring protective security, preventing and responding to emergencies and crises, they’re are all huge tasks for organisations. After all, knowing the steps to take to develop effective risk management plans isn’t in the DNA of most companies.