The Business Continuity Institute has announced the winners of the BCI Africa Awards, which were presented at a ceremony during the BCI Africa Conference on 21st September. The annual awards recognise business continuity and organizational resilience excellence in the region.
The Travelers Companies, Inc., has published the results of the 2018 Travelers Risk Index; an annual survey of US-based businesses which looks at current threats and preparedness.
Writing incident management objectives is an art that needs to be taught and practised and should be included as an aspect of business continuity exercises. In this article Charlie Maclean Bristol shares some advice on the subject.
A survey of supply chain managers by CIPS (the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply) has found that customs delays of just half an hour could cause one in 10 impacted businesses to go bankrupt.
When it comes to achieving organizational resilience, you think of embedding business continuity and setting out a framework to achieve this. But what about key people who you need on side to achieve this but who are not bought into the benefits of business continuity? This article by Robert Willott addresses the obstacles you could face and how to overcome them.
Michael Herrera has written an interesting article looking at the emerging discipline of ‘chaos engineering’ (CE) and suggesting that it has the potential to ‘bring big changes to business continuity’.
The UK Department for Transport has published six new technical notices setting out the potential impacts of a no-deal Brexit on the transport and logistics sector.
Have you read or started to use the ISO 22330 business continuity management standard? Andrew Lawton explains what it is and why it is important that organizations take notice of it.
No plan survives contact with the enemy says the old adage, but this is precisely what is often expected from business continuity plans. A new Continuity Central survey looks into business continuity plan success rates and attempts to uncover the best ways to debrief after an incident.
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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.
