CIR Magazine has announced that the 2021 Business Continuity Awards will now take place on 1st September rather than Thursday 17th June, as originally scheduled. The Award ceremony remains at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square.
The winners of the DRI Awards of Excellence 2021 were announced during the DRI Resilience Excellence Summit, which took place virtually from March 1st - 3rd. The awards are presented to leaders and innovators in the fields of business continuity, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, and Azrieli College have demonstrated that ozone can effectively be used to disinfect surfaces which have been contaminated with the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2.
The BCI has released its annual Supply Chain Resilience Report, this year sponsored by Everstream Analytics. The report ‘looks at the current status of supply chains across the globe and how they have been impacted by the events of the last 12 months’.
A new survey by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Ireland reveals that almost 8 out of 10 (78 percent) of business leaders in that country say their organization had a business continuity plan in place in advance of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the first COVID-19 lockdown hit, many UK organizations rapidly ramped up home working as a business continuity strategy. A new survey report from Daisy Corporate Services has found that the majority expect to maintain this stance through 2021.
Hilary Estall MBCI, IRCA BCMS Lead Auditor is a business continuity practitioner and seasoned management system Lead Auditor. Here she offers an insight into the recent publication of NCEMA 7000:2021, the third edition of the UAE National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority’s business continuity management standard.
Prompted by the recent boom in videoconferencing, Professor Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), examined the psychological consequences of spending hours per day on these platforms. The results provide some relevant information for when videoconferencing is used during incident response.
Following on from his previous Continuity Central article, Andy Osborne shares further business continuity advice from the 101 tips included in his new book 'Practical Business Continuity Management 2'. Here he chooses his favourite three tips from the book...
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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.
