The latest business continuity news from around the world
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There are various common areas where business continuity plans fall down. Here, Colin Jeffs highlights some of these, providing his top tips to keep your business continuity planning on track, and to improve the quality of your plans.
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Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the UK believe that, despite the disruption they have experienced since the beginning of 2020, their business continuity plans responded well to both the COVID-19 pandemic (71 percent) and Brexit (55 percent).
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ISO has published an updated version of ISO/TS 22317, ‘Security and resilience - Business continuity management systems - Guidelines for business impact analysis’. The new ISO/TS 22317:2021 replaces ISO/TS 22317:2015, which has now been withdrawn.
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The BCI recently presented its annual Global Awards at a virtual ceremony. The awards ‘recognise the achievements of individuals, teams, and organizations working in business continuity and resilience across the world’.
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There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether business continuity as a profession needs to take a more strategic role in organizations. Luke Bird FBCI CRISC gives his view of the current situation and the development that is needed within the profession.
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Alejandro Aristizábal Correa explains why an understanding of how the human brain works can help organizations develop better crisis exercising and training.
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OnSolve has released the results of a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, which found that only 30 percent of business and government entities are very confident they can handle the increasing complexity of risk management in the future.
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With many organizations adopting hybrid working, it is becoming more likely that future incidents will be managed by a combination of people in the office and those at home, using a video conferencing system. Charlie Maclean-Bristol discusses issues arising from this.
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For many organizations, a business continuity exercise is seen as a necessary evil rather than something that is regularly embraced as way of improving your team’s capabilities. Here, Andy Osborne offers three tips for improving your BC exercising strategy.
- Shortlist published for the BCI Global Awards 2021
- Monetary Authority of Singapore consults on revisions to Guidelines on Business Continuity Management
- New BCI report shows that the role of business continuity and resilience professionals is becoming more strategic
- Saudi Arabia Digital Government Authority releases business continuity guidance
