DRI International has announced the winners of the 2022 DRI Awards of Excellence. These awards recognize excellence in the fields of business continuity management, technology recovery, and crisis management.
Robin Bucknall MA, MSc reviews various approaches to the business impact analysis, assessing whether it is still fit for purpose, and suggesting how the BIA process could be simplified and refocused to make it more useable.
Jim Preen gathers the opinions of a number of crisis management (CM) professionals from around the world on whether CM is becoming centralised, as suggested in a recent BCI report, and whether this is a positive development. Other emerging CM themes are also explored.
A new paper by SAP looks at how organizations can respond to damaging semiconductor shortages. ‘Maintaining Business Continuity During Periods of Semiconductor Shortages’ highlights supply chain resilience strategies for organizations to consider implementing for business continuity.
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There are various common areas where business continuity plans fall down. Here, Colin Jeffs highlights some of these, providing his top tips to keep your business continuity planning on track, and to improve the quality of your plans.
In the latest issue of the Production and Operations Management journal, researchers from the University of Tennessee and Virginia Commonwealth University highlight how the pandemic encouraged supply chain managers to implement business continuity programs.
Gulf Air has announced that the company successfully conducted a three-day business continuity test of operational systems with no interruption to operations.
Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the UK believe that, despite the disruption they have experienced since the beginning of 2020, their business continuity plans responded well to both the COVID-19 pandemic (71 percent) and Brexit (55 percent).
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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.
