NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year. This outlook forecasts a 40 percent chance of a near-normal season, a 30 percent chance of an above-normal season and a 30 percent chance of a below-normal season.
The Business Continuity Institute has used BCAW 2019 as a platform to launch a new video which provides a clear overview of what organizational resilience is. Entitled an Introduction to Organizational Resilience, the video aims to help organizations understand why organizational resilience is built around taking a collaborative approach to resilience.
A paper written by researchers at the Brawijaya University, Indonesia, provides the results of an investigation into the relationship between organizational resilience and organizational performance both directly and indirectly.
A new academic paper published in the Risk Analysis journal ‘examines the efficacy of resilience analytics by answering a single motivating question: Can big data analytics help cyber–physical–social (CPS) systems adapt to surprise?’
According to a report from Centrica Business Solutions, energy resilience has become a top level business risk, but there are steps that businesses can take to de-risk energy supply interruption.
FEMA has released a new guide to supply chain resilience aimed at helping emergency managers with recommendations and best practices on how to analyze local supply chains and work with the private sector to enhance supply chain resilience using a five-phased approach.
FM Global has published the 2019 edition of the FM Global Resilience Index, adding a new driver, corporate governance, to its ranking of 130 countries and territories by the resilience of their business environments.
A detailed report by the US Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been published which looks at the threat of the detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude or in space.
A new United nations report, ‘No Time to Wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant infections’, highlights the imminent nature of the emerging antimicrobial resistance crisis and demands immediate, coordinated and ambitious action.
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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.
