This year’s CIR Business Continuity Awards will take place on 4th June in London. The 25 categories ‘celebrate the past year's greatest successes in business continuity, security and resilience’. The shortlist of finalists has been published and is as follows...
In response to the growing concerns around COVID-19’s potential to develop into a global pandemic may organizations are rapidly developing remote working strategies. Point B highlights five areas that need to be thought about during this process…
BCI has released the 2020 version of its Horizon Scan Report. Sponsored by BSI, the report reflects the concerns of business continuity and resilience professionals when looking ahead to anticipated threats.
Each year at the DRI International conference the annual Awards of Excellence are presented to leaders and innovators in the fields of continuity management, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management. The 2020 Awards of Excellence were announced on March 3rd at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa in Savannah, GA.
New research into the reaction of customers to IT and technical failures in UK banking services shows the wider impact that IT failures can have on business stakeholders.
The BCI India Conference & Awards 2020 took place on 28th February in Chennai. The event hosted the BCI India & South Asia Awards. These recognise outstanding contributions from business continuity and resilience professionals and organizations within the region.
Dr. Jim Kennedy provides a detailed checklist of items that organizations need to consider to sense-check existing pandemic plans, or to inform planning processes which may be underway.
COVID-19 has been a catalyst for many organizations to address business continuity failings; with just under a quarter (24 percent) of companies currently in the middle of drafting an initial business continuity plan, according to a study by global consultancy firm Mercer.
Researchers from the Nanyang Technological University and the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden have published a new paper which describes a new economic model for analyzing enterprise IT service downtime cost. The paper was published in Operations Management Research.
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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.
