Is business continuity management a misnomer? Business continuity management at the crossroads

This paper addresses business continuity management (BCM) as the priority list of senior managers because of events such as 'natural' disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis, or pandemic outbreaks such as SARS, H1N1 and Mexican Flu. It discusses why business continuity management, as a discipline and as perceived by many today, is at the crossroads of direction and focus. It asserts that in fact, BCM does not currently fully cover the actual meaning of the term business continuity, to the extent that one could ask: 'Is business continuity management a misnomer'?