A new global study which aims to uncover insights about the keys to success in business continuity around the world is being conducted by Assurance Software and ClearView Continuity.
Richard Somiari, Center Director at the Lagos State DNA & Forensic Centre, is urging organizations to consider including facilities managers within business continuity planning teams.
The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has published a new document ‘Guiding Principles on Business Continuity’ for capital market entities, as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance the systemic resiliency of the capital market.
The FBCI is the highest membership grade offered by the BCI, but the Institute’s Global Board is concerned that there are currently only around 100 FBCIs from a total of over 9,000 members.
In an article published on May 17th 2019, Rachael Elliott, the BCI’ s Head of Thought Leadership has given her views on Adaptive BC, asking the question: “Adaptive BC: a ‘revolution’ or ‘a useful set of tools and approaches in the right circumstances’?”
A survey of Canadian mid-sized businesses published for Business Continuity Awareness Week took the pulse of managers, owners and executives to find out what types of disasters they had encountered, and what their level of preparedness they felt they had in place.
Extinction Rebellion the protest organization that caused major disruption in London during April is taking a new approach, with a global strike planned for September 20th. The organization hopes that workers around the world will walk out for the day causing widespread issues for businesses.
In June 2017 Continuity Central published the results of a survey which looked at whether attitudes to the business impact analysis and risk assessment were changing. Two years on, we are repeating the survey to determine whether there has been any development in thinking across the business continuity profession. The survey closes on May 31st, and the interim results can now be viewed.
A new academic paper proposes that a shift is needed in business continuity approaches from value preservation to value creation. Written by researchers from the University of Turku and the University of Jyvaskyla, the paper also charts ‘new and novel areas of collaboration between two important areas of information management – business continuity and business models
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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.
