The annual CIR Business Continuity Awards winners were announced on 9th December 2020 via a video broadcast. This different approach to usual was due to COVID-19 restrictions. The Business Continuity Awards recognise business continuity excellence demonstrated by individuals and organizations around the world.
New research commissioned by ServiceNow has surveyed 900 C-suite leaders and 8,100 employees from various organizations to look at how organizations are adapting to pandemic disruption.
In a series of short surveys Continuity Central is looking to gain a picture of how your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed your view or approach to your business continuity program.
A vaccine that induces immune responses to a wide spectrum of influenza virus strains and subtypes has produced strong and durable results in early-stage clinical trials in humans, Mount Sinai researchers have found.
During a virtual ceremony on November 19th, BCI announced the winners of the 2020 Global Awards, which recognize business continuity and resilience excellence from around the world. Entrants in the BCI Global Awards have all won regional BCI awards during 2020.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is launching an independent review of an incident that affected its real-time gross settlement system TARGET2 on 23rd October 2020, causing an outage for almost 10 hours. An initial investigation determined that a software defect in a network device was the specific technical cause of the incident.
In this new collaborative paper, academics from the Universities of Iowa, Tennessee, Tehran, and Mazandaran present a new ‘framework for the business continuity-inspired resilient supply chain network design problem’.
Remote working has been one of the main business continuity strategies employed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but researchers have shown that remote working results in increased fatigue for employees, something which needs to be taken into account and managed.
Standards Australia has published a briefing paper to explore the way forward for risk management and business continuity standards published by the organization. The ‘Risk Management and Business Continuity Sector Briefing Paper’ outlines a proposed plan for activities in this area.
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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.
