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The tragedy of business continuity
Business continuity This article looks at five ‘tragedies of business continuity’: ways that organizations fail to get the most from business continuity programmes; and suggests changes that could be made which would allow the full benefits of business continuity to be unlocked. By Alan Walker, MBCI. >> Read more
Enhancing organizations’ adaptive capacity and resilience through effective decision-making in the recovery phase
A paper by Dr Dean Myburgh, Chris Webb and Dr Erica Seville.
Bridging the business continuity and IT disaster recovery gap
How can business continuity managers increase coordination between the business and IT in preparedness activities?
LATEST NEWS ARTICLES

Potential Continuity of Labour legislation causes a stir in New Zealand
Employment Relations (Continuity of Labour) Amendment Bill aims to allow employers to use volunteers, contractors and casual employees as contingency measures during strikes.

Companies ‘facing succession planning cliff’
Strong succession management programs help to ensure business continuity but many organizations are facing significant shortcomings in this area.

The BCI announces the winners of inaugural European business continuity awards
The inaugural BCI European Awards ceremony took place on the evening of 12th June 2013 at a dinner in Brussels.

DRI Awards of Excellence winners
DRI has announced the winners of its 2013 International Awards of Excellence.

New Executive Director for DRI International
DRI International has announced that it has appointed Brian Makowski as its new Executive Director.

Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies predicts above-average Atlantic hurricane season
70 percent probability of 12 to 17 named storms with five to 10 of the storms developing into hurricanes.

Winners of the Business Continuity Institute’s Australasian Awards announced
The inaugural BCI Australasian business continuity Awards were presented at an event in Sydney on 4th June 2013.

UK businesses given advice on handling property incursions during G8 Summit protests
A series of protests linked to the 17th-18th June G8 Summit have been planned; Metropolitan Police issues advice for businesses on how to deal with protestors who enter business premises.

Business Continuity Awards 2013 winners announced
CIR Magazine’s annual Business Continuity Awards were presented on 30th May at a ceremony in London.

White paper: Severe weather preparedness and resiliency
Missionmode has published a new white paper to help businesses better prepare for severe weather events.

The winners of the BCI Middle East Awards 2013
The Business Continuity Institute presented its 2013 business continuity awards at an event in Dubai on 29th May.

NOAA issues hurricane season forecasts
Active or extremely active Atlantic season predicted; below-normal in other areas.

DRI International recognized for excellence in education
DRI International has announced that it has been recognized for excellence in education by the Order of the Sword & Shield National Honor Society.

Many manufacturers are blind to potential supply chain business continuity risks
Half of manufacturers lack supply chain visibility beyond tier 1 suppliers: KPMG study.

APEC officials discuss regional promotion of business continuity
Ways of sharing business continuity expertise and information between APEC countries was also on the agenda.

BCI Asia Business Continuity Awards 2013
Entries are now being accepted for this year’s BCI Asia Business Continuity Awards 2013, with the closing date being 30th June.

Southern California businesses warned to prepare for potential power outages this summer
A Summer grid outlook identifies local reliability concerns for Southern CA during heat waves.

Globally networked risks and how to respond
A paper in the journal Nature by Dirk Helbing, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, has looked at the various global networks that exist and illustrated how cascade effects and complex dynamics amplify the vulnerability of these systems.

Business Continuity Institute enhances training portfolio
New Good Practice Guidelines Training Course released by the Business Continuity Institute.

Resilinc and ICOR partnership to deliver new supply chain resiliency course
Resilinc Corp. and the International Consortium for Organizational Resilience (ICOR) have announced that they have formed a new education partnership to design and deliver a ‘next-generation supply chain resiliency course’.

Winners of the 5th Annual BANG Alternative Awards in Business Continuity Management
The annual BANG awards were presented on 24th April at the Old Doctor Butler's Head in Moorgate, London.

>> Complete index to all general business continuity news

FEATURE ARTICLES

Cultural implications of multi-stakeholder resilience building initiatives
Culture impacts on resilience initiatives in both negative and positive ways. In this article Mark Clegg explains what these impacts can be and how culture can be used as a key enabler in devising and implementing robust resilience initiatives.

Business continuity: certification and experience in the field
Organizations should seek to expose business continuity planners to real disasters says Scott Sanderson.

BCM in the United States: where is it heading?
Have changes in the risks faced by both the public and private sectors increased the importance given to BCM?

Complexity underpins the top business continuity issues facing African organizations
What the coming year might hold for Africa-based business continuity managers.

Contingency planning to become fashionable again…
According to the Business Continuity Institute’s technical development director, Lyndon Bird.

Is your organization’s planning brittle?
Geary Sikich provides five questions that you can work through to assess whether your organization’s planning is resulting in brittleness.

Embedding business continuity management
Ian Charters, FBCI, explores what an embedding programme could look like in the brave new world of ISO 22301.

Business continuity initiatives: when to involve senior management
What the ISO 22301 standard and COBIT 5 expect from senior management in BCM programs.

Back-up generators: how to avoid problems
The impacts of Hurricane Sandy have focussed many people’s mind on the importance of having access to back-up generators for business continuity; but ensuring that generators work when needed requires careful planning.

Business continuity and the smaller business
Practical advice for small and medium sized businesses from an SME owner.

The L'Aquila earthquake convictions: food for thought for all business continuity professionals?
How protected are you if your risk decisions go wrong?

Resilience and the importance of failure
By striving to eliminate all failures or interruptions could we actually be damaging our organization’s ability to react to an unexpected crisis?

People as single points of failure
All too often we allow people to become single points of failure in our organizations. How should business continuity managers identify and manage such people? By Alan Walker, MBCI.

Quality metrics: business continuity program performance versus recoverability
Business continuity professionals should be reporting on much more than the planning activities that they perform or manage.

Tips for business continuity beginners
Doug Kavanagh offers some advice to those new to the subject of business continuity.

The procurement department’s role in business continuity management
“No business continuity plan, no business”. That’s what your procurement department should be saying to all your suppliers — but are they?

Fuel, facts and fudge
Peter Power comments on various crisis management and business continuity questions raised by reactions to the threatened UK fuel strikes.

The benefits of business continuity: a summary
Continuity Central recently asked readers to help build a list of the benefits that business continuity brings. This article provides a summary of these.

Calling the shots…
Does true business continuity play second fiddle to IT recovery?

The challenges in a changing world: adopting an integrated approach to risk mitigation
In this paper Robert Hall looks at attitudes to risk within businesses and explains why the balance may be too far on the side of risk avoidance.

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