By Harriet Wood
In the 2014 Supply Chain Resilience Report published by the BCI 76 percent of respondents reported at least one disruption within their supply chain.
By John Zeppos, FBCI.
Business continuity management in large organizations with many different departments and diverse personalities can be a challenge at times.
Luke Bird reflects on career progression opportunities in business continuity and how the profession could improve in this area.
By James Stevenson
The first few exercises I ran were pretty nerve wracking. Would the plans work? Would the team play nicely or start throwing stuff? Would they realise I was new to this?
Many CEOs tend to see business continuity management purely within the context of complying with governance codes. But, says Leigh-Anne van As, business development manager at ContinuitySA, CEOs also need to see how business continuity management can help them answer three key strategic questions.
By Charlie Maclean-Bristol FBCI FEPS
Defining the recovery time objectives (RTO) for your activities is one of the most critical things the business continuity manager will carry out. Get them wrong and the whole basis for your recovery strategy is flawed.
By Duncan Ford MBCI.
Could you get more out of your business continuity exercises? Do you have an inner concern that last year’s exercise programme didn’t demonstrate as much as you would have liked, or that there may be alternative ways of delivering the exercise that would be more cost effective and less effort?
ContinuitySA provides advice for organizations based in areas where power supplies are unstable.
In 2013 Continuity Central conducted a survey to explore quality control methods that are being used within business continuity management systems. This survey has now been repeated to see how the trends in this area have changed.
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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.
