If You Are A Business Resilience Pro, We Need You To Answer A Few Questions!!

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resilience. We examine different topics in business resilience such as disaster recovery, but this time it’s all just business resilience. No matter whether your program’s goals are to create business continuity plans and test them, to build operational resilience, or to cross-functionally maintain business operations despite disruptions, this survey is for you!

The last survey focused on business continuity and many of the numbers didn’t significantly change from 2018 including:

• The median number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) supporting the BCM program was 3, which is the same as 2021 and 2018.
• Fifty-one percent of respondents reported updating their BCPs once per year in 2023, down from 54% in 2021.
• In our 2023 survey, executive sponsorship stayed high at 96% after the leap in 2021 to 94% from a consistent 88% in both 2018 and 2014.
• Remote access was the most common strategy for workforce continuity even in 2008 (86%), hit a peak in 2018 (88%), and sat at 82% in 2023.

But worldwide operational resilience regulations such as EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act and Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority Statement of Policy Operational Resilience are either already in effect or will be shortly. They are both subtly and not so subtly changing the way we think about resilience. Want to know how this has changed the business resilience landscape? We do too! If you are a business resilience decision maker or influencer at your organization, please take 20 minutes to complete the survey here.

Once the survey is complete, the DRJ will have a summary of the results on its site. For Forrester clients, the survey results will be examined in-depth in reports that will publish in the next few quarters. All the results are anonymous. If you’d like to receive a complimentary Forrester report (The State Of Business Continuity, 2024), you can submit your email address and we won’t use it for any other purpose.

Take the survey! Get a free report!  And help us and DRJ get a pulse on business resilience!