Consumer facing businesses are in the front line, but throughout organizational supply chains the pressure for product deliveries to be made as quickly as possible is increasing inexorably. Craig Summers looks at the issues.
FEMA has invited Puerto Rico businesses and other organizations to join in panel discussions about how they responded to hurricanes Irma and María, and what they might be doing to prepare for future disasters.
Unlike other essential utilities, water supply is often overlooked by UK business continuity managers because it is frequently viewed as a supplier responsibility. Many organizations are not aware that non-household customers should arrange and maintain their own contingency plans
How much should your organization spend on business continuity and IT disaster recovery? And how do you find out if it being spent in the right areas to really make the organization resilient? Mark Saville and Mark Smith explain how a technique borrowed from the way that high-hazard industries manage risks can help.
The Adaptive approach to business continuity, developed by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour, proposes a simplified method of improving business continuity capabilities. A new paper now claims that Adaptive business continuity may provide value at least eleven times faster than Traditional approaches.
Earlier in June ISO published ISO 22330, its latest business continuity standard. In this article, Dr Liz Royle explains what the new standard is, why it was needed, and what it contains.
A recent European Medicines Agency (EMA) survey indicates that some companies need to step up efforts to ensure that medicine supplies in the UK and EU are not disrupted after Brexit.
Business continuity is key to building cyber resilience and there is the need for it to collaborate with cyber/information security departments to improve the way organizations deal with disruptions caused by cyber security incidents.
According to Deloitte Global's 2018 crisis management survey, ‘Stronger, Fitter, Better: Crisis Management for the Resilient Enterprise’, nearly 60 percent of respondents believe that organizations face more crises today than they did 10 years ago, yet many may overestimate their capabilities to respond.
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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.
