In the second of a series of articles following Santa Claus and his first attempt at resilience planning, Paul Kudray looks at how a near-miss in 2014 helped Santa to understand that even his organization isn’t too big to fail…
Mr Claus sets out to make sure his organization is resilient for Christmas 2015! In a new series of articles Paul Kudray follows his progress and highlights some lessons for all business continuity and resilience planners.
Global study by the Economist Intelligence Unit for BSI finds that 80 percent of business leaders surveyed see resilience as indispensable for long-term growth.
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 November 2015.
‘Business resilience could be so much better if we can find a way to harness the power of our people, creating a culture and behaviours that enhance business resilience.’ Robin Gaddum explains why this is the case and looks at what can be done to ‘pull the people lever’.
In the final article of a three-part series, Paul Kudray, offers some advice on how to help move your organization forwards, away from de-resilience and towards resilience.
The US Department of Homeland Security has published a national plan to guide research activities across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors.
The Minister of the Netherlands Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation has signed an agreement for a new five-year ‘strategic partnership’ with five Dutch agencies working to build community resilience in disaster-prone developing countries.
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have released a joint consultative paper entitled ‘Guidance on cyber resilience for financial market infrastructures.’
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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.
