Security News > 2020 > March > Five steps to maintain business continuity during the coronavirus pandemic

A five-phase strategic and systematic approach to strengthen the resilience of organizations' current business models is key to business continuity during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Gartner.

"Companies tend to have traditional business continuity strategies and plans that focus on the continuity of the resources and processes but omit the business model," said Daniel Sun, research vice president at Gartner.

CIOs can play a key role in the process of raising current business model resilience to ensure ongoing operations, since digital technologies and capabilities can influence every aspect of business models.

Although CIOs do not normally lead the process of defining business models, they should proactively engage with senior business leaders to run through 10 key questions regarding current business models.

"Once senior leadership teams select the business and IT change initiatives, CIOs should apply an agile approach in executing the initiatives. For example, they can form an agile team of multidisciplinary team members, enabling the alignment between business and IT and ensuring delivery speed and quality," said Mr. Sun.

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