SAI Global has released results from a business continuity benchmarking study. ‘Addressing the COVID-19 gap: How Business Continuity professionals can propel business forward’ provides the results of a pre-COVID survey and a March 2020 follow up.
The BCI global Board has approved the formation of a new regional Chapter, in Spain. The Spain Chapter will provide networking events and webinars for Spain based business continuity and resilience professionals.
Within business continuity and risk management teams it is important for people to feel able to disagree and challenge: failure in this area can be a threat in its own right, with bad decisions resulting in ineffective plans. This article looks at how to develop teams that disagree well...
BSI recently conducted a survey among business leaders in North America to better understand the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on organizations and evaluate their business continuity efforts on the road to recovery.
In ‘Business Continuity Management for Supply Chains Facing Catastrophic Events’, a new paper published in the IEEE Engineering Management Review, the authors look at different methods of managing supply chain continuity and resilience and explain why convergence is required.
Many commentators labelled the COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘Black Swan’ event, but this is a misunderstanding about what a Black Swan actually is. This is not just a pedantic point. Understanding the difference moves COVID-19 from the list of events that governments and organizations could not be expected to prepare for to the list of events they should have prepared to handle.
A new study shows the scale of pressure brands now face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as consumers flock to apps and websites as the priority destination to transact with brands.
There are some fundamentals that business continuity professionals should not forget or do away with, but neither should we be afraid to move with the times. Russell Williams asks the profession some questions…
Business continuity planning related to COVID-19 is now the top concern of investment management compliance professionals – edging out cyber security, which had headed their rankings of hot topics for six consecutive years.
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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.
