With less than 50 days to go until the date which has been fixed for the UK to leave the European Union, a recent YouGov survey shows that a third of UK businesses believe that they are not ready for the event.
Survey-based research carried out by Crises Control and the Continuity Forum has looked into business continuity practices within UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).The research was carried out using a mixture of in depth phone calls and an online survey.
In a recently published research paper Henrik Hassel and Alexander Cedergren discuss challenges that arise when applying business continuity management in the societal safety area. The authors are both from the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University, Sweden.
Rick Cudworth and Abigail Worsfold from the Deloitte crisis and resilience team provide a review of the new PD CEN/TS 17091 European technical specification for crisis management, which was launched in December 2018.
The Business Continuity Institute has released the latest edition of its Emergency Communications Report, which provides a snapshot of how organizations are using emergency communications capabilities within their business continuity processes.
For the past five years Continuity Central has conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the year ahead. This article provides the results of the most recent survey and identifies some interesting changes from previous years…
This year’s Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) will run from May 13th – 17th and will focus on the theme of ‘Investing in Resilience’, says the Business Continuity Institute.
Alex Janković claims that some managed service providers have successfully managed to equate business continuity with IT disaster recovery, resulting, at best, in confusion among those new to the profession and, at worse, the development of business continuity plans that are not fit for purpose.
The Business Continuity Institute has announced that its ‘What is Business Continuity?’ video recently won ‘Best Association Video’ at the UK Association Awards. Originally launched during BCAW 2018, the video was developed as a result of a gap that the BCI identified in its content
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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.
