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Business continuity is NOT JUST a project...it’s an ongoing state of mind.
Read article •Date: 28th Dec 2006• Region: Africa/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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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.
Read article Date: 21st Dec 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Human Resources is often overlooked as a business continuity resource.
It shouldn’t be…
Read article •Date: 14th Dec 2006• Region: US /World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Risk area left unprepared for in around half of US companies.
Read article •Date: 14th Dec 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Government funded research will help businesses and government make appropriate contingency plans.
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•Date: 14th Dec 2006• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Reports on progress to date.
Read article •Date: 12th Dec 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Scenario planning does NOT have a role to play in business continuity plan development emphasises Saul Midler.
Read article •Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: Australia/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Shows how the city centre would be evacuated in response to major incidents.
Read article •Date: 7th Dec 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Pawel Wozniak of Hewlett Packard, Poland, has won the first Business Continuity Student of the Year Award.
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•Date: 7th Dec 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business Recovery Managers Association award goes to Union Bank business continuity manager.
Read article •Date: 6th Dec 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The Association of Contingency Planners has announced its corporate board of directors for 2007.
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•Date: 6th Dec 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Massachusetts has become the eighth state to be accredited by the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP). The program is a voluntary national accreditation process based on NFPA 1600, the standard on emergency management and business continuity. The other seven accredited states are Arizona, Florida, Illinois, North Dakota, Montana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Steve Dance discusses the interplay between BS25999 and other recent UK legislation.
Read article •Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Following the successful launch by Continuity Central of the Business Continuity Journal, the peer-reviewed journal for the business continuity profession, we are now issuing a call for papers for the next couple of issues.
Read article •Date: 29th Nov 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Scarcity of raw materials, higher operating costs, government restrictions, and reduced flexibility are just some of the difficulties that corporations must address.
Read article •Date: 27th Nov 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that a burst water main has caused major business continuity problems for companies occupying a high-rise business premises in Melbourne. More than a million litres of water poured into the basement of the building which contained an electrical substation. This had to be closed down, blacking out the whole building. Hundreds of staff were turned away when they arrived for work. Power to the building could be disrupted for up to two days and engineers report that the water may have caused long-term damage to the building’s foundations. The incident displays the high impact that day-to-day ‘mini-disasters’ can have on business operations. Read the full story
We received over 300 entries for our recent business continuity quotations competition. Find out who won and read the full list of entries.
Read article •Date: 17th November 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Dr. Jim Kennedy calls for a greater focus on service continuity controls in critical infrastructure protection programs.
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•Date: 17th November 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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IWA 5:2006, Emergency Preparedness aims to provide the bedrock of a future ISO standard.
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•Date: 17th Nov 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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A new company, Surefire Continuity Inc, has been established to deliver Business Continuity Institute-approved training courses in North America.
Read article •Date: 16th Nov 2006• Region: North America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Climate change sceptics “out of step, out of arguments and out of time.”
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•Date: 16th Nov 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Paper records are frequently neglected in business continuity plans…
Read article •Date: 14th November 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Goldman Sachs joins regional resiliency organization.
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•Date: 14th Nov 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The American Red Cross has launched a promotional campaign aimed at encouraging US businesses to develop business continuity plans.
Read article •Date: 3rd Nov 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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'The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management', first published by Wiley in 1999, has been through many editions and is now due for an update. The publishers would like to invite suitably qualified authors to submit chapters.
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•Date: 3rd Nov 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Whether as an opportunity taken, or through government enforced compliance, companies, will have to tackle their environmental impact. What will this mean for the business continuity profession? David Honour speculates.
Read article •Date: 31st October 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Aims to help more companies survive periods of financial difficulty.
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•Date: 31st October 2006• Region: New Zealand •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Spends $2.1 million on measures to ensure that problems experienced during last year’s storms do not happen again.
Read article •Date: 27th October 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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ISO/PAS 28003 gives requirements for auditing and certification of supply chain security management systems.
Read article •Date: 27th October 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Areas under extreme drought could increase to 30 percent from today's figure of 3 percent.
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•Date: 27th October 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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There is an urgent need to evaluate hazard and vulnerability and to build a comprehensive picture of seismic risk across the nation.
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•Date: 27th October 2006• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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One in 10 of Glasgow's call centres has been infiltrated by criminal gangs, police believe. The scam works by planting staff inside offices or by forcing current employees to provide sensitive customer details. The information is then used to steal identities and fraudulently set up accounts or transfer money.
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•Date: 27th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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The Pakistani National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) has built a state of the art disaster recovery site at Sargodha. The project was designed and implemented by NADRA engineers and the software being used for replication from operational sites to the disaster recovery facility was also developed in house.
http://www.nadra.gov.pk/•Date: 24th October 2006• Region: Asia •Type: Article •Briefing: BC general
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The first issue of Continuity Central’s new high level Business Continuity Journal has been published.
Read article •Date: 20th October 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Lord Levene, Chairman of Lloyd’s, has called for all businesses to make risk management a key priority.
Read article •Date: 20th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Provides the ability to offer advance warning of flash flooding threats.
More details •Date: 19th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The Institution of Civil Engineers’ ‘State of the Nation 2006’ report looks at infrastructure risks and what mitigation measures are needed.
More details•Date: 18th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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A rapidly spreading fire in central Dhaka resulted in severe damage to over 100 neighbouring factory premises.
More details •Date: 13th October 2006• Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Six places on the board were available.
More details •Date: 12th October 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Link Associates International have collated the findings from a range of official reports and published documents produced since the 7 July 2005 London bombings into a central source of reference. This document seeks to capture the lessons identified from the event with specific focus on the business continuity issues. A free copy of the report can be obtained by emailing link.administration@linkassociates.com
•Date: 12th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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Civil Defence Minister Rick Barker has urged New Zealanders to treat Disaster Reduction Week as a call to action to prepare for the impacts of a disaster or emergency.
More details •Date: 11th October 2006• Region: New Zealand •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Further building on the floodplain should be avoided as climate change increases the flood risk the Association of British Insurers has warned. In London alone 500,000 properties, 200 schools, 16 hospitals, and 8 power stations are already situated in the floodplain. Jane Milne, the ABI’s Head of Property, said: “Sensible planning now will reduce the significant costs in the future. ABI members are committed to continuing insurance wherever possible for existing customers, but will look more critically at new builds.”
•Date: 11th October 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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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.
More details •Date: 6th October 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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“Are we in danger of over complicating what is quite a simple industry and in doing so missing the point of what we are trying to achieve?” asks Tim Armit.
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•Date: 6th October 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The EC is to formalise its business continuity activities under a single framework based on the BCI’s Good Practice Guidelines.
More details •Date: 4th October 2006• Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Anyone responsible for a business premises in England and Wales must take action from 1st October 2006 to comply with fire laws. Fire safety law is now covered by one piece of legislation in most premises and fire certificates have been abolished. Instead, the emphasis is now on preventing fires and reducing risk with a 'responsible person' tasked to ensure the safety of everyone who uses the premises including carrying out checks on fire protection equipment and facilities. More information can be found at the Fire Gateway website http://www.fire.gov.uk. There are a series of guides to assist those preparing fire risk assessments at http://www.firesafetyguides.communities.gov.uk
•Date: 4th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The business continuity profession lacks a simple, clear, definition of what business continuity is. Is one needed? What should it be?
More details •Date: 29th Sept 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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A minor solar flare in September 2005 produced a noticeable degradation of all GPS signals on the day side of the Earth. When scaled up to the larger solar flares expected in 2011-12, Cornell researchers expect massive outages of all GPS receivers on the day side of the Earth.
More details •Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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A study comparing Australian CEOs with US business leaders has found that the Americans are ‘more conservative and buttoned down’, while the Australians are ‘more fun-loving and risk-taking’. The research is described as the first major study of its kind of Australian CEOs. The findings are based on results of three personality assessments administered by US-based Hogan Assessment Systems.
Presents a detailed summary of the large volume of research studies undertaken into atmospheric hazards since last year’s record Atlantic hurricane season.
More details •Date: 26th Sept 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The Continuity Forum is conducting its annual salary survey. This aims to establish an overview of business continuity related salaries in the UK.
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•Date: 26th Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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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.
More details•Date: 22nd Sept 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Don’t assume that if you comply with COMAH you are covered from a business continuity point of view, warns SembCorp.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Friday 22nd September will see the relaunch of the London Prepared website, which provides business continuity and emergency planning information for businesses based in the city. http://www.londonprepared.gov.uk/•Date: 21st Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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Miami is the city most at risk from natural disasters; Milwaukee and Mesa are the least.
More details •Date: 19th Sept 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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When making BCPs it is vital to understand the culture of the organization and the personalities of ‘the players’, says John Glenn.
More details •Date: 14th September 2006 • Region: US/World• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Water is to become the fourth sector to be assessed under the Critical Infrastructure Protection Modelling and Analysis (CIPMA) program.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2006• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Take part in our first business continuity Wiki: help write the above open source document.
More details •Date: 8th September 2006 • Region: World• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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One of the main challenges facing the international trading system is the security hazard to global supply chains.
More details •Date: 7th September 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Belinda Wilson, CBCP, executive director, Hewlett-Packard makes the case for the CCO.
More details •Date: 6th September 2006 • Region: US/World• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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European heat waves are likely to become much hotter and much more frequent during the course of this century, states new research by the Met Office's Hadley Centre.
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•Date: 6th September 2006• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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One day London will face a flood of New Orleans proportions, but few organisations that would be affected seem to have business continuity plans that would adequately cope with such an event, warns Mel Gosling.
Read article•Date: 1st September 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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A critical infrastructure which seems to be out-of-sight: out-of mind.
Read article •Date: 30th August 2006• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Creating the Fully-Functional Office: Satellite-Based Business Continuity’.
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•Date: 30th August 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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This page will be updated with business continuity and disaster recovery information related to tropical storm / hurricane Ernesto.
Read article •Date: 29th August 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Hurricane preparedness is good for employee morale finds Florida State University researcher.
Read article •Date: 22nd August 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Mike Bemis ponders the vagaries of decision making related to capital expenditure for contingency initiatives.
Read article •Date: 18th August 2006 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Send your comments to the British Standards Institution by 31st August.
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•Date: 18th August 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New proposals could potentially have business continuity implications for larger gas users.
Read article •Date: 17th August 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Rich Arnold, Cheyene Haase and Carey Storm will receive their awards at an ACP Member Meeting on September 18, 5:30 pm at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel.
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Bank of America has announced the appointment of Donna Bucella to the position of Business Continuity Executive. Bucella, who currently works for the Department of Homeland Security heading the US Terrorist Screening Center for the FBI, will join the bank in mid-October. Bucella will lead all aspects of business continuity planning coordination and recovery efforts for Bank of America, both domestically and internationally.
China Tech News has reported that Guangzhou has decided to choose a secret location in the surrounding cities to build a large government database backup and ‘catastrophe recovery center’. Read the story •Date: 15th August 2006• Region: SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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How do companies determine how much they spend on business continuity measures for low, medium and high likelihood risks of varying threat severities?
Read article •Date: 11th August 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Arizona State University researchers are exploring the methods used by customers to attempt to damage the reputation of companies they feel have wronged them.
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•Date: 10th August 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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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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•Date: 9th August 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Fraud can be a real threat to business continuity and levels are surging, especially when it comes to insider fraud.
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•Date: 4th August 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Live test used to confirm functionality of business continuity processes.
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•Date: 4th August 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Service enables retailers and manufacturers to quickly respond to disaster.
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•Date: 4th August 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Download a PDF copy of a supplement about business continuity which was distributed with the Times newspaper recently.
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•Date: 3rd August 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Marsh offers some advice on how to navigate a potential quagmire…
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•Date: 3rd August 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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As many areas of the US suffer under the current heatwave, what can small companies do to ensure that business continues as usual?
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•Date: 3rd August 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Criticizes the DHS website for ‘inaccuracies and incomplete information’.
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•Date: 2nd August 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Continuity Central has been collecting quotations which provide some wisdom or a quirky thought about business continuity. Read our list and then enter our competition to find the best BC quotes out there...
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•Date: 21st July 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The inaugural meeting of the Business Continuity Institute’s South Africa Forum was held on 4th July 2006, hosted by ContinuitySA and attended by BCI technical director Lyndon Bird. There were 19 attendees in all. The Forum committee was decided upon and it was agreed that meetings will be held monthly to start with and then moving to quarterly meetings later. Visitors and guests with an interest in business continuity management and related issues are very welcome at any Forum meeting: contact Ray Liepa Ray.Liepa@ContinuitySA.co.za for more details.
•Date: 21st July 2006 • Region: Africa • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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