Copyright © 2021 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.MARCH - 22 - 2021, Volume 07 - Issue 03 (ISSN 2644-240X) Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to CIO ApplicationsVisit www.cioapplications.com *Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffEditorialRethinking Business ContinuityIn IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.But recent technology developments and trends, most notably server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, the emergence of mobile devices in the workforce and social networks, are having an impact on how enterprises handle IT business continuity planning and testing. Much of the impact is for the better, experts say, but these trends can also create new challenges for IT, information security and risk management executives.By the summer of 2020, most companies were taking a long look at their business continuity and disaster recovery plans given the lasting impact of Covid-19. Most of these plans, rendered irrelevant, were created with the expectation that businesses could rely on resources in other locations and that any major market or business shakeup would be short-lived. However, the pandemic provided a series of challenges that left many executives scrambling to keep their teams safe and customers satisfied -- all while finding ways to just "keep the doors open." Only the most resilient companies have been able to ride the wave, while some are just holding on with government assistance. And unfortunately, there are others that have not and may not make it. And so, one of the keys for 2021 planning will be a focus on resiliency. Businesses will need to function differently with a focus on agility and a different view toward the reliance on alternative location strategies as a major component to their backup plans. As the CCO of a company that offers intelligent robotic process automation, I believe new technologies (intelligent automation, AI, ML and digital workers) will play a major role and allow companies to completely rethink, reimagine and redesign work to leverage a more synergistic approach where the work-from-anywhere human workforce collaborates with more intelligent digital workers.In the past year, it has become clear that the lens through which we have viewed the horizons and scope for building traditional business continuity or disaster recovery plans is no longer valid. In fact, these new operating models could even require less of a jump to a new recovery or continuity plan should something even more adverse occur in the future.Let us know your thoughts.Joe PhillipManaging Editoreditor@cioapplications.comJoe PhillipManaging EditorJoe PhillipSalesSebastian Jacobsebastian@cioapplications.comEmailsales@cioapplications.comeditor@cioapplications.commarketing@cioapplications.comGraphics & ArtVictor CruzEditorial StaffBen JacksonDaniel HolmesEzra BenjaminJune MichaelRose DcruzSenior WritersClara MathewLeah JaneRoyce D'Souza
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