To mark the start of Business Continuity Awareness Week, Databarracks has released preliminary data from its upcoming Data Health Check survey on business continuity practices in the UK. The data reveals that only 54 percent of UK organizations are confident that their business continuity plans are up-to-date.
Adaptive Business Continuity (Adaptive BC) is an alternative approach to business continuity planning, ‘based on the belief that the practices of traditional BC planning have become increasingly ineffectual’. In this article, Jean Rowe challenges the Adaptive BC approach.
A new white paper written by the Disaster Recovery Institute’s Glossary Committee looks at the difficulty the committee has experienced in defining the term ‘incident’ and explains why agreeing a definition is important.
The Legislative Assemblies Business Continuity Network (LABCoN) has used Business Continuity Awareness Week as a platform to launch new business continuity guidance specifically aimed at legislatures.
The Business Continuity Institute has released a new report, ‘Supply Chain Resilience - 10 Year Trend Analysis’, in association with Zurich. The report looks at emerging key risks are and what organizations can learn from the past 10 years of research in this area.
Researchers at Warwick Business School have found that security breaches have a lasting impact on organizations, with breached companies typically paying lower dividends and invested less in research and development up to five years after the attack.
The Business Continuity Institute announced the winners of the 2019 BCI European Awards at a ceremony on the evening of 9th May, in Hamburg. The awards recognise excellence in the business continuity and resilience profession.
Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) is an annual global event that is facilitated by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and this year takes place from 13th to 17th May. This page provides updates through to the end of BCAW.
The Business Continuity Institute presented its 2019 Americas Awards at an event on April 14th at the Continuity Insights conference in New Orleans. The awards recognize business continuity and resilience excellence.
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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.
