MERS outbreak is a ‘wake-up call’ for highly mobile world
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- Published: Thursday, 18 June 2015 08:11
All countries need to be prepared for the unanticipated spread of serious infectious diseases says WHO.
All countries need to be prepared for the unanticipated spread of serious infectious diseases says WHO.
The sudden emergence of MERS-CoV in South Korea has resulted in real business continuity issues for local businesses, with schools being closed, tourist trips cancelled and individuals being placed under varying levels of quarantine.
At a recent event in Qatar, Deloitte Middle East stated that internal audit should be one of the key players in business continuity management.
Using Twitter and Google search trend data in the wake of the very limited US Ebola outbreak of October 2014, a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Purdue University and Oregon State University have found that news media is extraordinarily effective in creating public panic.
CIR Magazine presented its annual Business Continuity Awards at a gala dinner on the evening of Thursday 12th June. The ceremony was held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London and over 300 guests attended.
The BCI held its European Awards ceremony on the 4th June in Brussels, Belgium. The awards recognise excellence in the business continuity and resilience profession.
Often crisis management case studies focus on what went wrong in badly handled crises. In this article Charlie Maclean-Bristol FBCI takes five lessons from an incident that was well managed.
Our first online Business Continuity Measurement Special Interest Group (SIG) took place on 18th May. The successful event was fully subscribed and business continuity managers and specialists from a number of countries engaged in an hour’s discussion on the subject.
Mott MacDonald and Anglia Ruskin University's Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) have published a report making clear that building climate resilience is essential to future business survival; and that doing so will also bring commercial opportunity.
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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.