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Business continuity statistics and research: archive

AT&T releases results from its 2013 Business Continuity Study
For 12 consecutive years AT&T has conducted an annual study into the state of business continuity in the United States. This year’s survey results have now been published.
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•Date: 11th June 2013 • US •Type: Article

Business continuity in US real estate companies
Survey reveals that more than half of real estate companies lack business continuity plans.
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•Date: 3rd May 2013 • US •Type: Article

Continuity Software publishes Enterprise Service Availability and Business Continuity Benchmark Survey report
32 percent of the organizations surveyed did not meet their service availability goals for mission critical systems in 2012.
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•Date: 24th April 2013 • World •Type: Article

How many organizations really have business continuity management?
Patrick Roberts looks beneath the headline figures published in the recent 2013 Chartered Management Institute business continuity survey.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article

Changing approach to business continuity paying dividends
Business disruptions hit lowest levels in over eighteen years as UK organizations evolve business practices to deliver the available enterprise, says SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article

Use of cloud for business continuity and disaster recovery on the increase
According to a TechTarget - Computer Weekly survey.
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•Date: 21st March 2013 • World •Type: Article

Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual business continuity research report
Provides a snapshot of business continuity in the UK.
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•Date: 19th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article

Most companies could not meet their recovery time objectives
According to a FalconStor poll.
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•Date: 21st Feb 2013 • Australia/World •Type: Article

The top causes of downtime explored
The Quorum Disaster Recovery Report.
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•Date: 11th Feb 2013 • US •Type: Article

BT survey shows that the importance of business continuity planning was one of the key London 2012 lessons
A BT survey, which surveyed 600 UK-based large private and public sector organizations, has looked into the lessons that were learned from the London 2012 Olympics.
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•Date: 29th Jan 2013 • UK •Type: Article

Business continuity Horizon Scan 2013
The Business Continuity Institute and BSI have published a joint survey report looking at organizational threat perceptions.
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•Date: 15th Jan 2013 • World •Type: Article

Business continuity in 2013: survey results
During November and December 2012 Continuity Central conducted a survey to determine what changes and challenges we can expect to see in the business continuity profession during 2013.
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•Date: 2nd Jan 2013 • World •Type: Article

Supply Chain Resilience 2012
The Business Continuity Institute has published a new report into supply chain resilience which finds that 73 percent of organizations recorded at least one supply chain disruption in 2011.
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•Date: 7th Nov 2012 • World •Type: Article

Business continuity and the service desk
Over 80 percent of service desks have business continuity plans in place – yet only half know how to implement them, according to new research.
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•Date: 12th Oct 2012 • UK/Europe •Type: Article

Survey provides a snapshot of US business continuity planning
SolarWinds has released the results of a survey conducted in partnership with Network World which asked respondents about business continuity in their organization.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2012 • US •Type: Article

The use of social media in business continuity management systems
Earlier in the year Continuity Central conducted a survey to find out how social media is currently being used by business continuity managers. This article provides a summary of the survey results.
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•Date: 30th August 2012 • World •Type: Article

UK manufacturers shrink supply chains as a business continuity measure
A survey by EEF, the manufacturers’ organization, has found that many UK companies are looking to re-shore production in response to supply chain risks.
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•Date: 17th August 2012 • UK •Type: Article

Phoenix publishes UK invocation statistics
Hardware failure and power outages were the main reasons for customers invoking business continuity services in 2011.
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•Date: 7th August 2012 • UK •Type: Article

UK businesses failing to make the link between availability and customer satisfaction
Research finds that only 40 percent of UK organizations think that downtime will result in lost customers.
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•Date: 31st July 2012 • UK •Type: Article

Survey looks into initial attitudes to ISO 22301
New international business continuity standard expected to ‘triple certification levels.’
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•Date: 25th July 2012 • World •Type: Article

2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey results
Symantec Corp. has published the findings of its 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey.
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•Date: 18th May 2012 • North America •Type: Article

UK businesses failing to include ‘talent risks’ in business continuity strategies
According to a Vodafone survey.
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•Date: 16th May 2012 • UK •Type: Article

Business continuity in Toronto
Survey finds that 85 percent of Toronto-area companies have developed business continuity plans.
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•Date: 3rd May 2012 • Canada •Type: Article

AT&T survey looks into the business continuity habits of Japanese businesses
Business continuity and cloud computing are 2012 priorities.
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•Date: 20th April 2012 • Japan •Type: Article

Results from global business continuity management program benchmarking study
Continuity Insights and KPMG LLP have published the findings of the 2011-2012 Global Business Continuity Management Program Benchmarking Study, which surveyed 685 executives from over 40 countries.
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•Date: 17th April 2012 • World •Type: Article

Power and communication failures were the main cause of UK business disruptions in 2011
According to invocation statistics released by SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 23rd March 2012 • UK •Type: Article

Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual business continuity management survey
Provides a snapshot of business continuity in the UK.
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•Date: 15th March 2012 • UK •Type: Article

Research finds employer and employee disconnect on London 2012 business continuity plans
Is your business prepared for the Olympics? Your employees don’t think so…
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•Date: 8th March 2012 • UK •Type: Article

The Second Middle East Business Continuity Management Survey report
Business continuity management trends in nine Middle East countries.
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•Date: 23rd February 2012 • Middle East •Type: Article

Benefits of business continuity plans surveyed by British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and the UK Cabinet Office
As well as helping organizations continue in business after an incident, business continuity plans reduce insurance premiums and open doors to new markets.
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•Date: 16th February 2012 • UK •Type: Article

Disaster recovery failing to catch up with virtualization and cloud: Acronis Survey
US SMBs relying on inadequate backup and disaster recovery methods.
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•Date: 14th February 2012 • US •Type: Article

Survey highlights inability of companies to test London 2012 business continuity plans
Organizations don’t feel that they have enough information to properly test plans.
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•Date: 24th January 2012 • UK •Type: Article

2012 business continuity horizon scan
The Business Continuity Institute has published survey findings on the top threats to business continuity in 2012.
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•Date: 19th January 2012 • World •Type: Article

Disaster recovery planning in European organizations
Survey looks at the current state of play and highlights seven key enablers of effective disaster recovery.
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•Date: 11th January 2012 •Europe/ UK •Type: Article

Survey looks at business continuity and the cloud
23 percent of respondents have incorporated cloud services into their business continuity and disaster recovery strategies; and 28 percent will do so within 24 months.
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•Date: 14th December 2011 • World •Type: Article

Survey provides a global snapshot of business continuity and disaster recovery practices
The latest global business survey from Regus has interviewed over 12,000 senior business people in 85 countries about business continuity and IT disaster recovery in their organization.
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•Date: 9th December 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Many business continuity and disaster recovery strategies are out of date: survey
Over 50 percent of organizations responding to a recent survey had not updated business continuity or disaster recovery strategies in the past two years.
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•Date: 1st December 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

The European Disaster Recovery Survey 2011
Systems failure resulted on average in two lost working days for the businesses in the survey.
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•Date: 25th November 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article

Expected business continuity impacts of London 2012 surveyed
Transport is the biggest concern followed by staff unavailability.
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•Date: 17th November 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Human error is the biggest cause of IT disasters: survey
Plan B has conducted a survey to analyse the key factors that cause major SME IT incidents and service failures.
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•Date: 17th November 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

‘Preparedness in the Private Sector – 2011’
Key findings from a new Conference Board report.
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•Date: 4th November 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

Supply chain business continuity issues examined
Business Continuity Institute survey finds that 40 percent of supply chain disruption originated below the immediate supplier.
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•Date: 3rd November 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Business continuity and disaster recovery budgets remain stable
Average business continuity and disaster recovery budgets stay at six percent of IT operating and capital budgets: Forrester.
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•Date: 3rd November 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Data loss in virtual environments is a widespread issue
Kroll Ontrack survey finds that 65 percent of organizations are experiencing frequent data loss from virtual environments.
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•Date: 7th October 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

The 9/11 Opinion Survey
A survey has been published which explores Americans’ attitudes to terrorism and natural disasters and how they have changed since 9/11. Interestingly it compares the views of emergency management professionals with those of non-professional individuals.
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•Date: 15th September 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

Survey finds a drop in US organizations having disaster preparedness plans in place
US Society for Human Resource Management poll finds that 76 percent of respondents have formal disaster preparedness plans, a decline from 85 percent in 2005.
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•Date: 14th September 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

CommVault releases results of annual end-user virtualization survey
Survey shows a groundswell of support for running business-critical applications on virtual machines in the production environment.
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•Date: 2nd September 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Data protection and disaster recovery in Australian businesses
Survey finds that 23 percent don’t achieve their recovery time and recovery point objectives during disaster recovery tests.
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•Date: 16th August 2011 • Region: Australia •Type: Article

ICM releases half-year business continuity invocation statistics
ICM’s half-year business continuity invocation statistics ‘reveal that UK businesses need to reprioritise what they consider are risks to their organization’.
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•Date: 4th August 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Social media risks surveyed
Symantec survey looks at social media incidents and their business impacts.
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•Date: 27th July 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Business continuity in London-based organizations
AT&T has published the results of a survey of the business continuity practices of London-based organizations.
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•Date: 15th July 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

‘Corporate Governance and Business Preparedness’: Conference Board research
The Conference Board has published the results of three surveys which looked at how involved company boards are in business continuity management.
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•Date: 17th May 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

Supply chain continuity in US SMBs
Saia 2011 National Trends in Small to Medium-sized Businesses study highlights supply chain continuity practices.
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•Date: 29th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

UK businesses nervous about future power related business continuity threats
Power reliability already a serious issue for many businesses; and the situation is likely to deteriorate.
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•Date: 28th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

The business continuity problems of patching
50 percent of businesses have suffered IT failures due to software updates gone wrong.
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•Date: 22nd June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

SunGard Availability Services publishes 2010 UK invocation analysis
Communications failures and power outages top list of business disruptions.
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•Date: 12th April 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Attitudes to disaster recovery and downtime
Neverfail has published the results from a survey of 1,473 IT professionals in the US regarding their disaster recovery plans and practices.
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•Date: 23rd March 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

‘Managing Threats in a Dangerous World: The 2011 Business Continuity Management Survey’
CMI publishes annual snapshot of business continuity in the UK.
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•Date: 22nd March 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Your top three challenges: final results
The results of a survey run by Continuity Central which asked business continuity professionals what the main challenges facing them in 2011 are.
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•Date: 11th March 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Gartner survey identifies business continuity as one of the top two priorities for Indian organizations
The 2011 CIO Agenda survey by Gartner Executive Programs has found that Indian organizations see business continuity as a high priority area for future investment.
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•Date: 8th March 2011 • Region: Asia •Type: Article

ICM publishes full listing of 2010 business continuity invocations
IT hardware failure is by far the main cause of invocations.
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•Date: 8th March 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Review of disaster recovery and business continuity plan activations reveals common failures
Janco Associates has just completed a review of 253 disaster recovery and business continuity plan activations and classified the shortcomings of those plans.
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•Date: 4th March 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article

Business continuity considerations missing from major change programmes
According to new research.
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•Date: 2nd March 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Aviva surveys UK small and medium businesses about business continuity
Provides some interesting sector specific information.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Business continuity in UK SMEs
Star survey looks at business continuity take-up; finds that three-quarters of SMEs surveyed have BC plans, a surprisingly high figure.
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•Date: 2nd Feb 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Risk and business continuity management in New Zealand
Marsh has conducted its fourth biennial survey of the risk and business continuity management practices of New Zealand businesses.
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•Date: 27th Jan 2011 • Region: New Zealand •Type: Article

The top 10 South African business continuity issues for 2011
As identified by ContinuitySA.
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•Date: 25th Jan 2011 • Region: Africa •Type: Article

Your top three challenges: interim results
Resources, testing and senior management support are emerging as the main trends in Continuity Central’s current survey.
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•Date: 21st Jan 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

The Global Disaster Recovery Index
New Acronis recurring survey monitors IT managers' confidence in their backup and recovery operations.
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•Date: 18th Jan 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Impacts of recent snow on UK businesses may have been over-hyped
Only 14 percent of SME decision makers surveyed by YouGov thought their business significantly suffered during the recent snowy weather.
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•Date: 18th Jan 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Research highlights cloud business continuity benefits
Companies that utilize public cloud storage recover almost four-times faster from an IT-related downtime event than organizations that only store their business critical data onsite.
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•Date: 12th Jan 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey
Symantec has published the findings of its 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, which measured the attitudes and practices of small- and mid-sized businesses and their customers toward disaster preparedness.
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•Date: 12th Jan 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Cloud: resilience trumps ROI for CFOs
Research reveals a reluctance amongst chief financial officers to invest in cloud technologies unless a provider can provide strong proof that customer data will be safe and always available.
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•Date: 7th Jan 2011 • Region:UK/World •Type: Article

CA Technologies study measures North America downtime impacts
North American businesses average 10 hours of IT downtime a year.
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•Date: 10th Dec 2010 • Region: N.America •Type: Article

Results of the sixth annual Symantec Disaster Recovery Study published
Research reveals gap in downtime expectations and reality.
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•Date: 23rd Nov 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

Paper documents still mission critical for many
90 percent of finance professionals admit continued reliance on paper records.
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•Date: 23rd Nov 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

Internet connectivity missing from many disaster recovery plans
According to a survey by Avanti Communications.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

Business Continuity Institute publishes supply chain failure research
Research from 35 countries has revealed that over 70 percent of organizations have recorded at least one supply chain disruption in 2010.
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•Date: 28th Oct 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

Social media threats surveyed
One-third of companies experienced a social-media based reputation threat during the past 12 months.
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•Date: 28th Oct 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

ICM publishes invocation statistics
Indicate that hardware issues consistently remain the major cause of disruption amongst UK businesses.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Volcanic ash cloud impacts in retrospect
86 percent of US organizations say that the ash cloud crisis has affected their ongoing business continuity planning: survey.
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•Date: 21st Sept 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article

CA Technologies publishes 'Avoidable Cost of Downtime 2010 Report'
Report claims that European organizations lose EUR17 billion a year by failing to protect their business-critical systems.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2010 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article

MTPD: what business continuity professionals think about it and how they calculate it
The final results of Continuity Central’s recent survey.
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•Date: 9th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

Forrester report looks into business continuity and disaster recovery
Forrester has published a new report which looks at the business continuity and disaster recovery market and presents the results of a survey of 2,803 IT decision-makers.
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•Date: 9th Sept 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article

US small businesses ignoring business continuity
Nearly half of small businesses are operating without a business continuity plan : survey.
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•Date: 22nd June 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article

The 2010 Business Continuity Benchmark Report
Many companies over-confident about business continuity plans, according to Marsh survey.
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•Date: 18th June 2010 • Region: Various •Type: Article

BCI London Forum surveys workarea recovery trends
The BCI London Forum, the largest chapter within the Business Continuity Institute, has published the results of a survey into workarea recovery.
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•Date: 8th June 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

SunGard publishes 2009 business continuity invocations log
Workplace disruptions overtake technology for the first time as a cause of UK business interruption.
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•Date: 4th June 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Business continuity planning in the United States
AT&T has published the results of its annual Business Continuity Study.
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•Date: 26th May 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article

Business continuity software quick survey: final results
Business continuity software versus standard Microsoft Office tools: your views.
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•Date: 19th May 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

9th Annual BCM Study
BC Management is asking for business continuity managers to take part in its latest global survey.
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•Date: 6th May 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

Business continuity: the road ahead, part two
The second of a four-part presentation of the results of a recent Continuity Central survey.
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•Date: 26th Mar 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

Updated version of National Risk Register published by the UK Cabinet Office
Includes expanded information to ‘capture more fully the necessity for a holistic approach to business continuity management’.
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•Date: 24th March 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Study looks into US business continuity planning trends
The results of the ‘2009-2010 Preparedness, Security and Crisis Communications’ survey.
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•Date: 24th March 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article

Business continuity: the road ahead
Part one of a four-part presentation of the results of a recent Continuity Central survey.
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•Date: 22nd March 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article

Chartered Management Institute publishes annual business continuity survey
Longest running annual survey provides a useful snapshot of business continuity in the UK.
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•Date: 22nd March 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

UK snow: work from home plans failed
In a survey, 94 percent of UK SMEs polled admitted that work from home strategies did not go smoothly during the UK’s December – January snow events.
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•Date: 4th March 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

VoiceNation survey looks into US demand for voice continuity
VoiceNation has published the results of a survey of US small to medium sized companies regarding their business continuity plan for voice communication. This found that while 100 percent of respondents agreed that there was a critical need for some sort of emergency plan if they lost their voice communication platform; only 38 percent actually had some sort of plan in place. www.voicenation.com
•Date: 26th Feb 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: Telecoms continuity

Severe weather impacts on UK business continuity surveyed
78 percent of British small businesses say they were prepared for the recent adverse weather, yet 58 percent admit their business suffered.
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•Date: 20th Jan 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

UK companies unprepared for London 2012
With fewer than 1,000 days to the start of London 2012, the majority of UK companies are unprepared for how the Olympic Games will impact their business and staff, according to a new survey by BT Global Services.
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•Date: 12th Jan 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

UK government needs to do more to raise awareness of business continuity: BIBA
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association is calling on the government to help raise awareness of business continuity.
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•Date: 4th Jan 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Business continuity in Australia and New Zealand
The results of a recent benchmarking study have now been made generally available.
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•Date: 4th Jan 2010 • Region: Australia/NZ •Type: Article

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