As organizations around the world were abruptly thrown into having to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, business continuity management became a key focal point. With hindsight there is, of course, much to learn about how things can be improved for future events. Here Marc Hardwick highlights some key lessons learned…
In a previous Continuity Central article, Alejandro Aristizábal Correa looked at ways to calculate the probability of events and introduced the Variable-Rate Probability Distribution (VRPD) theorem. In this article he shows how the VRPD concept can be used in practice by business continuity managers.
The 2020 BCI Global Awards will be presented via a virtual awards ceremony, taking place at 11am GMT on Thursday 19th November. The Global Awards bring the winners from all of the BCI’s regional business continuity and resilience awards together to be judged for the Global title.
Coinciding with the UK's terrorism threat level being raised from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’, meaning that a terror attack is ‘highly likely’, the National Counter Terrorism Security Office has released new guidance on managing business continuity.
On Saturday, October 24th, 2020, SIFMA coordinated a business continuity test for the US securities sector. The aim was to assess the industry’s ability to operate through a significant emergency using backup sites, recovery facilities and backup communications capabilities.
Every country has had a different approach to managing COVID-19 but South Africa’s approach has been different to many. This article provides an overview and looks at some implications and learning points from a business continuity point of view.
A new organization, The Business Continuity Coalition (BCC), has been set up in the United States with the aim of helping pandemic recovery by ‘working with Congress, the Administration, and other stakeholders to achieve a workable Federal program that enhances and strengthens economic recovery’.
COVID-19 has shown organizations that sometimes change can be forced upon us in ways that it would be impossible to predict. Petra Morrison says that there are various superpowers which exist in most organizations which can provide the necessary agility to respond - if they are brought together.
After previously announcing that the annual CIR Business Continuity Awards presentation was being moved from June to December as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has now been announced that the award ceremony will be a virtual event.
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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.
