A new study conducted under the bed of the Dead Sea has found that a devastating earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale is expected to hit Israel in the coming years.
Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders who embrace infrastructure-led innovation will drive greater enterprise resilience, according to Gartner, Inc., especially as growing digital ambitions compete with ongoing economic uncertainty.
Research has been published highlighting the areas where wildlife-human interfaces intersect with areas of poor human health outcomes and highly globalized cities, which could give rise to the next pandemic unless preventative measures are taken.
The Sixth Annual DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report is now available. This looks at how trends developed in 2020 and how these changes might develop in 2021.
Traditional approaches to strategy development can be slow and cumbersome says James Graham. In this article he explains what ‘emergent strategy’ is and how it can help with an agile response when survival threatening situations develop.
The risk level to the global workforce has reached its highest since 2016 according to the findings of International SOS’s Business Resilience Trends survey of over 1,400 risk professionals across 99 countries. This was carried out by Ipsos MORI and the results have been published in the report ‘Risk Outlook 2021’
In an article written for Continuity Central in January 2020, Geary Sikich discussed the possibilities of the novel coronavirus developing into a pandemic and warned that organizations should plan for such. In a new article Geary makes some personal observations on the current state of pandemic response and discusses how what he terms as 'herd stupidity' has had an impact.
The official 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season ended on November 30th, and in response FM Global has provided seven takeaways from a season which broke records across the board:
More than 80 percent of organizations have reported that their supply chains have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, with a vast majority struggling across all aspects of their operations. This is according to new research from the Capgemini Research Institute, ‘Fast forward: Rethinking supply chain resilience for a post-COVID-19 world’.
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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.
