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The Red Book of Clear and Present Danger

Welcome to the Red Book of Clear and Present Danger briefings, a collection of concise guides for business leaders. Business Continuity is addressed in this briefing. Each briefing offers an opinionated, concise take. 

Opinions that uses lessons learned, reference architectures, and proven solutions to encourage following these patterns and discourage boiling the ocean of alternatives.

More choices lead to picking nothing while chasing the perfect answer and ignoring the risks.

It's like comparing fire extinguishers while your production line catches fire.

These are strategic insights, not technical tutorials. If execution isn’t obvious, the right move is to hire a professional, just as a business owner hires a CTO to lead technology strategy or a COO to run daily operations.

At your revenue level, a few days of unexpected downtime will cost both revenue loss and reputation of your brand and even an extinction event if you can't recover in time.

Welcome to Business Continuity, the practice of identifying your essential functions to minimize disruption during and after a crisis event.

In this guide, you will learn about top threats, the nine components of a good Business Continuity plan, and the triage you can apply to your technology components to give you an edge for key platforms.

You know the right $5 coffee is worth it! So is The Red Book of Clear and Present Danger — a guide to understanding the business disruption risks every leader needs to know.