DRI International’s Awards of Excellence were presented at the DRI Conference on February 19th, 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. These annual awards are presented for crisis management, business continuity, technology recovery, and risk management excellence.
The Business Continuity Institute has formed a new group, Women in Resilience (WiR), which aims to connect and empower women in business continuity, organizational resilience and related disciplines.
Rick Cudworth and Abigail Worsfold from the Deloitte crisis and resilience team provide a review of the new PD CEN/TS 17091 European technical specification for crisis management, which was launched in December 2018.
Organizations focused on high impact risks such as cyber attack and IT outages under-estimate the impact of more frequent events finds the 2019 BCI Horizon Scan report.
Business continuity professionals have until 26th February 2019 to provide comments on a revised version of the ISO 22301 business continuity management standard. The standard is being reviewed by ISO as part of its usual process for existing standards.
This year’s Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) will run from May 13th – 17th and will focus on the theme of ‘Investing in Resilience’, says the Business Continuity Institute.
Paul Barry-Walsh argues that as complexity increases in society, so do interdependencies. To prevent cascading disasters, organizations need to implement firebreaks which will ensure that they do not become the weak link in the supply chain.
With less than 50 days to go until the date which has been fixed for the UK to leave the European Union, a recent YouGov survey shows that a third of UK businesses believe that they are not ready for the event.
Survey-based research carried out by Crises Control and the Continuity Forum has looked into business continuity practices within UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).The research was carried out using a mixture of in depth phone calls and an online survey.
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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.
