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A case study in supply chain vulnerabilities
Patrick Roberts highlights lessons from Huntingdon Life Sciences.
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A decade in business continuity planning
Nathaniel Forbes started his BC consultancy in January 1996. In this article he highlights the key lessons that he has learned since that time.
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Accounting for staff following an evacuation
A risk assessment of methodologies, by Alan Lloyd.
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Achieving resilience – best practices in business continuity
A white paper that summarises the results of a $250,000 research program into business continuity planning.
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Addressing business continuity during mergers or acquisitions
Companies that are preparing for a corporate merger or acquisition will need to address some formidable and distinctive BC challenges.
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A facility blueprint for survival: plan for the unexpected!
Discusses some of the issues involved in protecting business facilities.
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A hidden crisis behind communication
Michael Faber raises various communications issues which some business continuity plans fail to address.
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A holistic framework for recovery: shifting the perspective of BCM to generate greater success
A detailed white paper by Tim Cousins.
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A new planning paradigm: economic consequences of a pandemic
Geary W. Sikich takes a detailed look at the potential impacts of a pandemic and asks ‘business continuity planners - what are you doing?’
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Are we missing the point of pandemic planning?
Focusing on the impact of a pandemic on staffing and output risks failing to plan for other, even bigger threats, associated with such a crisis. By Geary W. Sikich and John M. Stagl.
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Armed against the activist
David Honour explores the business continuity measures that can be put in place to protect companies from activist attacks.
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Assessing your legal vulnerabilities
Businesses face legal risks related to disruptions and disasters: how can these be addressed? By Jay N. Rosenblatt, a business lawyer at the law firm Simpson Wigle LLP.
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A supervisory perspective on disaster recovery and business continuity
Remarks by Roger Ferguson, Jr, vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, before the Institute of International Bankers, Washington.
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Banks and avian flu: planning for a possible pandemic
Many of the assumptions underlying much of today’s business continuity planning will not hold in a pandemic. Pat McConnell explains.
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Bayesian Belief Networks in business continuity management
Bayesian Belief Networks provide a method for integrating beliefs and hard facts in a logically consistent manner. Patrick Roberts explores the potential for applying them in business continuity management.
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Between a rock and a hard place
Steve Dance discusses the interplay between BS25999 and other recent UK legislation.
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Business continuity and brand protection
Jim Burtles argues that the primary purpose of business continuity is in the protection which it provides for the brand.
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Business continuity - are we still missing the point?
Are most organisations still too focussed on the reactive aspects of business continuity? Dominic Hill thinks so...
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Business continuity lessons from Buncefield
48 hours after a huge explosion at a UK fuel depot, firefighters were still trying to extinguish the fire. Various BC lessons can be gleaned from the incident.
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Business continuity program management – a critical and often overlooked aspect
Once a BCM program is established there are a number of activities that protect the investment and sustain the program in line with the needs of the organization. Mark Prentice explains.
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Business continuity management : the nine deadly sins
Mike Thompson highlights areas that he believes bedevil many BC plans.
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Business continuity’s role in supply chain resilience
How to effectively manage supply chain risks. By Charlie Maclean-Bristol.
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Business discontinuity – five common mistakes and how to avoid them
Brian Davey provide some hints and tips on how to avoid five false assumptions organisations can make when implementing their business continuity management programme.
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Before the business continuity plan
What can you do if your organisation doesn’t yet have a BCP, but you want to prepare for emergencies? Nathaniel Forbes offers some advice.
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Better practice guide: business continuity management
A comprehensive overview of BCM, produced by the Australian National Audit Office
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Beyond disaster recovery: becoming a resilient business
An object-oriented framework and methodology, by Richard Cocchiara.
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BCM document quality control
Ray Liepa details what’s required for quality control of business continuity management documents.
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Beware the complex plan…
The best business continuity plan is simply structured common sense says Jim Burtles, FBCI.
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Beyond IT service management – spreading the reach of support
IT support can play an essential role in business continuity management.
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BCM self-assessment tool
A 20 question checklist aimed at enabling CFOs, financial controllers and auditors to assess the state of business continuity management in their organisations.
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BCM: think culture, not quick fix!
Business continuity is NOT JUST a project...it’s an ongoing state of mind.
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Boring, boring business continuity…
Pareto’s Principle and business continuity management. A comment by David Honour.
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Building a continuity culture: the importance of measuring attitudes to risk
How to do you know which employees have an appropriate understanding of business risks? John Robinson explains.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity – a changing agenda?
Dennis Thomas comments.
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Business continuity and disaster recovery outsourcing issues
Lawrence Robert looks at the implications of outsourcing in general for BC managers and asks ‘Can business continuity be outsourced?’
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Business continuity & risk management: making sure that today’s business continues tomorrow
Download a PDF copy of a supplement about business continuity which was distributed with the Times newspaper recently.
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Business continuity and disaster recovery: how aware is your organisation?
Lynne Miller explains how to develop and manage an awareness raising programme.
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Business continuity and medium size enterprises
Once upon a time, high tech disaster recovery and business continuity solutions were the preserve of multinationals with buckets of cash. No longer, says Richard Boud…
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Business continuity during an avian 'flu pandemic
Leslie Whittet provides a very helpful overview of the measures that organisations should consider when including pandemic scenarios in business continuity plans.
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Business continuity for beginners
An overview of the business continuity management process for those new to the subject.
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Business continuity for small businesses
Dr. Robert F. Hester offers some thoughts and inspiration for small businesses attempting to develop business continuity plans.
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Business continuity: helping firms stand out from the crowd
Using the example of the legal industry, Peter Joyce explains how business continuity can help differentiate companies in crowded sectors.
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Business continuity lessons from Buncefield
A review of the business continuity themes contained within the Major Incident Investigation Board’s report.
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Business continuity lessons from Buncefield: SDPL
A new report into the Buncefield disaster and the lessons that can be learned from it has been published by business continuity consultancy, the SDPL Partnership.
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Business continuity on a limited budget
David Honour asks whether the priority should be given to crisis management or plan development when funds are limited.
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Business continuity on a limited budget: part two
Andrew McCrackan continues our article series by highlighting the ethical dilemma faced by planners when budgets are not enough to mitigate all critical risks.
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Business continuity planning for pandemic scenarios
In a highly practical article, Leslie Whittet highlights the steps that can be taken to provide real business resilience during a pandemic.
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Business continuity planning for REAL people
By Sean Doherty, BCM advisor, RBC Royal Bank IT department.
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Business continuity planning - how long should it take?
About three months and never more than six, says Mel Gosling.
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Business continuity and crisis management
Written by Dr David Smith, FBCI, this article outlines various approaches that can help companies prepare for a business continuity 'event', and explains the BCM life cycle.
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Business continuity best practices
Describes nine universal business continuity best practices that apply to any organisation and all technologies.
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Business continuity best practices (SIA)
Securities Industry Association paper.
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Business continuity issues facing companies with production facilities
An overview by Kennith D. Brock.
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Business continuity: new risks, new imperatives and a new approach
An IBM white paper exploring how the need for continuous availability is affecting business continuity.
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Business continuity planning - a safety net for businesses
General overview of the principles of business continuity.
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Business continuity planning in the healthcare environment
Practical guidelines.
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Business continuity: the new imperative
With users now expecting round-the-clock access to business processes, organisations must make an enterprise commitment to business and IT continuity.
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Business continuity quotations
We received over 300 entries for our recent business continuity quotations competition. Find out who won and read the full list of entries.
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Business insurance – what you may not have thought about…
Insurance has great relevance in a business continuity context but is an area which is often greatly misunderstood. Ron Miller highlights aspects which all BC managers should be aware of, but often aren’t.
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Business resilience – the next step forwards for business continuity
Robin Gaddum explains why IBM believes that business continuity is evolving into business resilience.
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Checklist: protecting employees on new overseas assignments
MEDEX provides a list of international health and safety questions for the risk manager to consider.
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Colour co-ordinated…
Dennis Thomas, director of business continuity at Synstar, looks at the role of people management in an invocation and presents the case for adding colour to business continuity strategy.
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Comment: Culture change is key to business continuity management
As BCM develops it is coming up against a major obstruction in many organisations; that of corporate culture. By David Honour.
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Communicable diseases: business continuity issues
Continued concern over Avian flu and the threat of a global influenza pandemic make planning for such eventualities a high priority. Jeremy Haworth, MBCI, outlines the lessons he learned during the 2003 SARS crisis.
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Complacency – the biggest business continuity threat to SMEs
Many smaller companies mistakenly view business continuity management as only relevant to large enterprises. Brooks Wallace attacks such thinking.
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Contingency planning guide for information technology systems - recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Exhaustive guide which provides instructions, recommendations, and considerations for government IT contingency planning. Although aimed at the public sector, most businesses will also find useful advice here. Covers the interim measures required to recover IT services following an emergency or system disruption, including the relocation of IT systems and operations to an alternate site and the recovery of IT functions using alternate equipment. 107 page PDF.
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Continuity of operations: improved planning needed to ensure
delivery of essential government services
A report to the chairman, Committee on Government Reform, House of
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Corporate crime – the need for prevention and cure
The BC impacts of internal crime can range from short term effects due to the theft of important equipment to huge reputational and financial crises. Kerry Furber explores the subject.
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Creating shareholder value through business continuity management
Patrick Roberts believes that using scare tactics to promote BC is counter-productive and that focusing on 'risk and return' is a better approach.
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Critical infrastructure protection is all about operational resilience and continuity
Dr. Jim Kennedy calls for a greater focus on service continuity controls in critical infrastructure protection programs.
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Cultural conditioning – the training dilemma
James Royds highlights the benefits that exercising brings to the whole business continuity lifecycle.
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Designing a business continuity training program to maximize value and minimize cost
Susan Yardis provides some thoughts on the above subject and a useful list of ideas.
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Disaster planning guidelines for gulf coast businesses
A useful checklist style guide has been made available by Capital One Financial Corporation.
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Does the business continuity model start in the wrong place?
Do the standard BC models leave organisations that are developing their first plans vulnerable for too long?
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Don't overlook records management when developing business continuity plans
Paper records are frequently neglected in business continuity plans…
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Dynamic identity in a disaster situation
In an article aimed at exploring the human dynamic of business continuity, Mike Jacobs looks at how individual identity can be affected by disaster and how that can impact on response teams.
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Emerging threats: climate change
A year ago, Continuity Central published an article which asked 'Is climate change a business continuity issue?' 12 months on, we revisit the issue and explore how our knowledge of climate change as a business continuity threat has moved on.
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Emerging threats 2006: drought
Part one of a regular series of articles to be published over the next few weeks exploring threats which are likely to be an increasing issue during 2006.
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Ensuring successful project completion
Project failure can put business survival in jeopardy. David Honour explores how project risk management can help prevent the threat arising.
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Evidence-based business continuity management
Can the BCM profession learn from ‘evidence-based medicine’? By Patrick Roberts.
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Expecting the unexpected: business continuity in an uncertain world
A joint NaCTSO, London First and BCI publication that offers a useful 32 page introduction to business continuity.
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Factors to be considered when selecting a business continuity planner and partner
Provides practical advice and checklists.
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Federal Preparedness Circular updates continuity of operations guidance
Continuity of Operations Federal Preparedness Circular 65 supersedes earlier guidance.
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Five simple rules for business continuity
Gregory N. Mirsky, a BC coordinator for a large personal beauty products manufacturer in North America, shares a training primer that he has developed.
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Flexible working: time to take the next step?
Flexible working will be essential if organisations are to continue to operate effectively during a pandemic. So why not leverage the business continuity investment to drive down overheads, improve the working environment and adopt flexible working as standard business practice?
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Flood preparation guide for businesses available from UK Environment Agency
A new guide has been published to help UK businesses handle flood related business continuity issue. Go there
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Get out of jail free?
Force majeure clauses inserted in the small print of contracts can be a very real threat to the survival of businesses impacted by disasters. David Honour explores the issue.
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Global political risk and business – beyond terrorism?
Political factors are increasingly having an influence on business continuity.
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Grenada situation provides wide-area disaster recovery lessons
Earlier this week the United Nations highlighted the continued disaster recovery struggle taking place in Grenada following last year’s Hurricane Ivan. David Honour highlights the lessons that the business continuity profession can learn from the situation in the Caribbean island.
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Home working: a strategy for business continuity
Don’t assume homeworking can be easily ‘turned on’ during a crisis: it must be tested and exercised like any other BC strategy. Graham Chick explores the issue.
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How has 9/11 affected business continuity thinking and outlook?
Presented at the Business Continuity Management Forum 2002 - The London Chamber of Commerce.
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How to choose a business continuity consultant
On 8th September 2006 we launched our business continuity Wiki, to enable the development of collaborative documents. The first article is now complete and provides advice on how to decide whether an external business continuity consultant would be a useful resource to aid your company’s BCM program and, if so, how to go about choosing one.
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How to find and motivate employees for business continuity
Given the harsh reality that the BCM function is under-staffed in most organisations how can BC managers encourage others to volunteer to get involved?
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HR as a business continuity resource
Human Resources is often overlooked as a business continuity resource.
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Human factors in business continuity
The first of a series of articles by Siobhán McGee and Emerald-jane Turner which explore human resource aspects of business continuity management.
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Human factors in business continuity, part two
This is the second of a series of articles by Siobhán McGee and Emerald-jane Turner which explore human resource aspects of business continuity management. Here the authors discuss the second phase of their HR business continuity model: the proactive phase.
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Human factors in business continuity, part three
This article focuses on the immediate or responsive phase of the human resilience strategy, in other words, the capacity that organisations have to activate and utilise their human factor resources in the wake of a traumatic incident.
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Human resilience strategies: the recovery phase
Part four in a series of articles exploring human resource aspects of business continuity management.
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If the cap fits…?
Dennis Thomas offers his insight into the challenges facing BC managers when forming business continuity support teams.
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Implementing a business continuity culture
IT is the logical home of business continuity states John Robinson, but how can IT departments foster a culture in their organisations where every executive and department takes business continuity to heart?
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In the spotlight: the human side of business continuity planning
IBM Global Technology Services has provided a paper exploring the above issue and giving a useful checklist of questions to ask when planning.
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Integrating business continuity criteria into your supply chain
Geary Sikich takes a detailed look at strategies for supply chain business continuity management.
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Introduction to business security patterns
This IBM white paper explores in detail business security patterns and ways to maximise the value of security and protection investments.
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Is business continuity a subset of risk management?
Andrew McCrackan explores the relative positioning of BC and risk management within organisations and explains why this is an important debate.
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Is business continuity certification right for your organization?
This white paper analyzes the business case for pursuing business continuity certification, including what it takes to complete the certification process and how best to prepare.
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Is climate change a business continuity issue?
Whatever the cause, most scientists agree that climate change is taking place. David Honour asks what the implications are for business continuity managers.
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Is not having a business continuity plan ever an acceptable risk?
Many enterprises, particularly SMEs (SMBs) do not have a business continuity plan. This paper attempts to quantify the risk that these enterprises are taking, and asks if is this an acceptable risk to take.
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It could happen tomorrow…
Not got past the stage of thinking about developing a business continuity plan? Robert Hester offers some advice for SMBs…
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It’s the people, stupid…
Much more research needs to be conducted into the people side of business continuity planning, but David Honour makes some suggestions for ways to improve in this area.
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It's time to stop the excuses
Len Biegel looks and some of the excuses companies give for not developing business continuity plans and answers these objections. 
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Lessons from Blackout 2003
Geary Sikich puts the recent North American blackouts into context and explores the business continuity lessons that need to be learned.
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Like eating an elephant
This article offers an introduction to business continuity, taking you close but not so close that you lose sight of your objective or get trampled underfoot. It provides a view of conceptual aspects, touching upon motivation and methodology as well as more practical elements such as analysis and planning.
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Little things do count
Business continuity must look at both the global big picture and the fine grains of a local process says John Glenn.
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Making the case for business continuity
By seizing the initiative and getting involved in all the phases of the business, BC professionals can facilitate the development of processes that can create value for the organisation as well as mitigate risks.
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Making more noise about BC
Dennis Thomas, director of business continuity at Synstar, believes the time is right for the BC community to capitalise on its good work.
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Managing business continuity
The cost of unplanned downtime is growing. What is your approach to disaster recovery and business continuity? By Felipe Alonso, Risk and Advisory Services, KPMG.
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