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Charlie Maclean-Bristol provides some practical advice for business continuity managers who are preparing for an ISO 22301 certification audit.
Recently I was in Fremont, California, supporting a business through an ISO 22301 audit. My company had been working with the business in question for a year to get it ready for the audit and we had already taken part of the organization (the part based in Sweden) to ISO 22301 certification, so we were fairly confident that we would pass this audit. However, a different auditor is always an unknown entity. This meant that the audit was, as always, approached with a little apprehension.
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Is the aim of recovering to a minimum business continuity objective acceptable? Tim Dunger argues that it isn’t…
Many of you have recovery time objectives within your business continuity and disaster recovery plans. It’s the desired time for which you will be deemed to have been ‘recovered’. But following a conversation with peers just recently, I have discovered that the point at which an IT system is seen as ‘recovered’ is rarely agreed between them.
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During the first quarter of 2015 Continuity Central conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the rest of 2015.
239 responses were received, with the majority (82.8 percent) being from large organizations (companies with more than 250 employees). The highest percentage of respondents were from the United States (35.6 percent), followed by the UK (24.7 percent). Significant numbers of responses were also received from Australia and New Zealand (6.7 percent), Canada (5.9 percent) and India (4 percent).
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By Andrew Hiles.
Service level agreements (SLAs) and business continuity go hand-in-hand: or they should do!
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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.
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BSI, the business standards company, has published a list of tips to help those new to the business continuity profession.
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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.
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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.
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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?
