The Reserve Bank, New Zealand's central bank, has commenced a public consultation on a business continuity and crisis management regime for systemically important financial market infrastructures (SIFMIs).
Cascade effects occur at all levels of disruption and crisis, from tactical to operational to strategic; and have implications for business impact analysis and risk assessments. Geary Sikich explores the subject.
The current approach to business continuity, which generally focusses on ‘what could happen’, has significant limitations says Graham Goodenough. In this article he explains why this is the case; and suggests a better, more positive, method.
WHO has dispatched a team of specialists to the southern prefecture of Nzérékoré in Guinea after two new cases of Ebola were detected and confirmed in a rural village.
The winners of the 2016 DRI International Awards of Excellence were announced at the DRI2016 conference in Atlanta, GA, on March 8th, 2016.
The Business Continuity Institute’s annual North America business continuity and resilience Awards will be presented at an awards ceremony on 15th March 2016 at DRJ Spring World. The shortlist of finalists has now been published
The Business Continuity Institute has presented its annual North America Awards at an event at DRJ Spring World. The awards recognize business continuity and resilience excellence.
APICS, the professional association for supply chain management, and Michigan State University (MSU) have launched a new report on the challenges pressuring today’s supply chain professionals.
This year’s international Business Continuity Awareness Week is taking place from 16th-20th May 2016 and a set of four posters for promoting it is now available.
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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.
