Continuity Central is pleased to announce that the winner of the Business Continuity Paper of the Year competition has been judged to be Ian Ross, FBCI.
Although the risk of Hurricane Joaquin landfalling in the United States has reduced, the threat to East Coast cities and communities is still being taken seriously and businesses need to prepare. Even if the storm stays over the ocean, the East Coast could be impacted
Researchers have found that large corporations often try to get over their corporate irresponsibility by first asking for forgiveness and then silencing their stakeholders. They also remove traces that may act as a reminder of the scandal.
Is resilience really the next big step forward for the business continuity profession? Betty A. Kildow, FBCI, CBCP, attempts to separate the hype from the reality when it comes to this controversial subject.
The World Health Organization has drawn up a roadmap to help it improve its response to future pandemics and disease outbreaks. Building on the lessons learned from the Africa Ebola outbreak the roadmap “is predicated on three overarching pillars
Mark Mahoney, MBCI, responds to an article published recently on Continuity Central in which it was claimed that ‘business continuity is broken’. This is far from the case says Mark…
With the Volkswagen response to the emissions scandal still headline news, Charlie Maclean-Bristol, FBCI, shares some lessons identified from VW’s response
Mel Gosling, FBCI, sets out how business continuity managers should go about planning and executing a business continuity training and awareness campaign.
High profile business continuity commentators David Lindstedt and Mark Armour have launched an attempt to take business continuity to the next level. They have published ‘Continuity 2.0’ which ‘establishes nine principles to found a new methodology, synthesizing and fostering improvements and innovations across the industry’.
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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.
