Business Continuity Awareness Week 2015 took place from 16th to 20th March and, following the event, Continuity Central initiated a quick survey to find out what business continuity professionals feel about it.
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.
BSI, the business standards company, has published a list of tips to help those new to the business continuity profession.
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 Lyndon Bird FBCI
No one disagrees that you need to validate your plans, and that testing and exercising are key parts of that process. However, in my experience, too many people just look to ensure the plans they have written down will actually do what they say.
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?
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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.
