Is it time to rethink business continuity?
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- Published: Friday, 19 June 2015 07:27
Increasing complexity means that business continuity professionals need to rethink some of the paradigms of the practice, says Geary Sikich.
Increasing complexity means that business continuity professionals need to rethink some of the paradigms of the practice, says Geary Sikich.
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 impacts of a Greek default could be felt across Europe and could generate real business continuity risks. David Honour offers a checklist of questions which organizations can consider when making contingency plans.
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.
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.
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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.