Andrew MacLeod, MBCI, investigates the origins of the term ‘resilience’ and demonstrates how its meaning, context and utility has evolved in the last 30 years. This is the second paper in a series where we are publishing the short listed entries in the Continuity Central Business Continuity Paper of the Year competition.
Catastrophe losses reach USD46 billion but represent a 58 percent drop in the half year average: Impact Forecasting report.
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during June 2015.
FEMA has announced that the 2015 US National Preparedness Month theme will be: “Don't Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.”
Over the next few weeks the shortlisted articles and papers in Continuity Central’s Business Continuity Paper of the Year competition will be published, with the winner announced after that. This is the first shortlisted paper, written by Ken Simpson, FBCI.
Lloyd’s and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Risk Studies have published a joint report into the implications of a successful widespread cyber attack on the US power grid.
Calgary's timely, structured, and outcome-focused approach to recovery was crucial in getting the City back on its feet following the 2013 flood, according to a new report released by The Conference Board of Canada.
A new research report highlights that ten years after Hurricane Katrina exposed the widespread neglect of children in US emergency planning, most recommendations of the national commission created to address those gaps remain unfulfilled.
One of the great risks to business operations today comes from complex global supply chains. Do we actually learn from events and improve our practice, or simply observe and then cite the event as evidence to reinforce our existing practices?
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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.
