In a research article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, researchers have highlighted the discovery of a new H1N1 influenza virus which should be monitored due to its potential to be a vector for a future pandemic.
In the first article in a short series explaining how to use mathematical concepts to bring more accuracy to risk and impact assessments made for business continuity and enterprise risk management, Alejandro Aristizábal Correa looks at ways to calculate the probability of events.
A new survey from International SOS highlights that over 70 percent of companies’ primary business continuity concern is further disruption from a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new white paper from ISACA, ‘Supply Chain Resilience and Continuity: Closing Gaps Exposed in a Global Pandemic’, offers approaches that enterprises can implement to increase the resiliency of their supply chain.
The COVID-19 pandemic raises a number of very significant issues for business continuity. These issues include employee availability, supply chain disruption, and social distancing. As companies return to full operations, they will have to adapt to a new normal with significantly changed business operating models.
Businesses around the world have had to collaborate with competitors in order to survive the COVID-19 pandemic - in some cases they have grown – but sharing excessive amounts of information with rivals comes with risks.
Early 2020 saw the beginning of worldwide lockdown measures that forced many businesses worldwide to work remotely in response to COVID-19, and a new report, the ‘2020 Work-from-Home IT Impact Study’, has examined the impacts of these steps.
Telstra had published the results of a research study, ‘Business Continuity, Flexible Working and Adaptive Infrastructure: Five Actions for When the Economy Reopens Following COVID-19’.
With so many working environments made unavailable as a result of COVID-19, and staff being forced to work remotely for extended periods of time, what lessons have companies learnt about the provisions they had in place, and how might they adapt for the future?
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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.
