With the 2019-nCoV Coronavirus situation developing rapidly, Geary Sikich looks at lessons learned from the 2006 avian flu pandemic scare, and provides pointers for activities that risk managers and business continuity managers could be considering currently.
In October 2019 a revised version of the business continuity management standard, ISO 22301, was published. In this article Hilary Estall, MBCI and IRCA Lead BCMS Auditor, explores the new version. Lifting the lid on what appears to be an uncontroversial update identifies areas which, whether aligned or certified to the Standard, will require time and thought to digest and apply.
For the past six years Continuity Central has conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the year ahead. We are repeating the survey again and the interim results are now available. They are as follows...
The situation with the 2019-nCoV disease outbreak, which was first identified in Wuhan City, China, has moved on rapidly in the last few days.Infected people have been identified in Thailand, Japan and the Republic of Korea; and the first cases of human-to-human transmission have been confirmed.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported that a novel coronavirus is the cause of a ‘mystery’ outbreak of pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Previously emerging coronavirus variations were behind the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) outbreaks.
Continuity Central exists to provide the business continuity, resilience and enterprise risk management professions with news and information. Each week we publish a number of feature articles looking in detail at a relevant area. This listing shows the 20 most popular feature articles from those published during 2019…
A new academic paper has been published in the Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Written by Jonna Järveläinen of the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, the paper focuses on the role of different stakeholders in public sector business continuity management.
The Transportation Research Board's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) is asking for interested parties to consider submitting a proposal for developing a ‘Practical Guide for Integrating Crisis Management and Business Continuity’ and for associated research.
ASIS International has published the results of a survey which looks at whether organizations in United States, Europe, and India are converging their protective functions.
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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.
