For many organizations, a business continuity exercise is seen as a necessary evil rather than something that is regularly embraced as way of improving your team’s capabilities. Here, Andy Osborne offers three tips for improving your BC exercising strategy.
The BCI has released its latest report, ‘The Future of Business Continuity & Resilience Report 2021’. The report says that the recent spotlight shone on business continuity and resilience has seen professionals’ roles more respected and appreciated by senior management.
On October 4th Facebook experienced an outage that lasted more than five hours and impacted many of its social media platforms. In a statement issued by Facebook Engineering, the company blamed configuration changes for the incident.
The BCI has released the shortlist of organizations and individuals who have qualified for the 2021 BCI Global Awards. The awards will be presented at a virtual ceremony taking place at 7:00pm GMT on 18th November.
The Saudi Arabia Digital Government Authority has published a new business continuity guidance document aimed at government agencies in the country.
Terrorism created a new paradigm in workplace security and now the pandemic is resulting in another rethink of corporate safety practices to maintain business continuity, safe workspaces, and healthy employees. Terri Mock highlights three key areas that need assessing to help keep your corporate safety policies up to date.
MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, has issued a second consultation document in a process to revise its existing Guidelines on Business Continuity Management. The paper gives stakeholders the opportunity to comment on response and feedback offered after the first consultation paper
What information should the business continuity plan of the future contain? Nick Simms considers how business continuity plans need to change in the light of COVID-19 and the widespread ability to work from home.
The BCI has published its first research report looking at attitudes to crisis management. The survey based report was sponsored by International SOS.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
