BANG Awards winners 2012

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BANG Awards winners 2012

The business continuity profession’s more tongue in cheek awards were presented on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012. BANG is a group of business continuity professionals that meets once a month in London and its BANG Awards have been an annual event for the past four years.

This year’s winners were:

Best Contribution to the Profession
3PQ Team for all of their hard work to create a common third party questionnaire.

Best Pub Near a Recovery Centre
Old Doctor Butler’s Head in Masons Avenue near Bank, this Shepherd Neame pub is named after the court physician to James I. The pub was established in 1610 and was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, a pub that recovered and has thrived for four centuries. Since late 2010, it is the home of BANG London.

Corniest Cliché
The BCI for "The BC Eye" – Get an inside view on the Business Continuity Institute and find out what's going on in the world of Business Continuity Management across the globe on our new Blog – The BC Eye.”

Creativity and Innovative Planning
Drew Gibson - For Canary Wharf. Drew has coordinated all BC & Crisis Managers and established a regular exchange of information in preparation for the London 2012 Olympics. The exchange has now led to the use of a central information sharing database, Wharf wide exercise and a "stress testing" event for staff working from home.

KISS
Adam Bland, for consideration of best practice to support the EPS London Branch and to engage with the London membership, agreeing a simple communication process.

Luckiest Recovery of the Year
Spencer Bowdler, for being able to bounce back after a cycling accident and then lead on incident management whilst his head was still bandaged-up.

Best Staff Awareness of BC
John Richards, for coordinating an ‘Olympic’ BCAW 2012 for the ODA, involving emergency alerts, staff information using 0800 & Intranet, supporting material and briefing to staff, secondees, contractors and suppliers.

Most Bizarre Exercise Scenario
General Counsel Dept in TfL. A team building exercise for the General Counsel Dept in TfL and also an activity to raise money for Red Nose Day. Three teams went through the scenario - Lawyers, Fraud & Security and Internal Audit. All three teams made a donation to Red Nose Day. The scenario was based upon the Dr Who episode where a battle between Cybermen and Daleks took place in Canary Wharf, with all three teams role playing a 'MoD' crisis management team.

Most Helpful Person in the Industry
Laura Meadows, for providing best customer service over and above normal course of work, and willingness to promote BC with no reward, eg taking on communications for BANG.

The Rocket Science Award
Russell Price - A speaker at one event was talking about Monte Carlo (MC) Simulations and BCM and got far too technical and theoretical. They said "MC Simulations are a little complex, but once you get the hang of it, they're not Rocket Science" Russell piped up with "Quite right the Monte Carlo Simulation is developed by Nuclear Physicists, including Enrico Fermi (a Nobel Prize winner) - they were rubbish at Rockets!"

Winners' press releases

3PQ Team scoop BANG award for Best Contribution to the Profession

Wednesday night, efforts of the Third Party Questionnaire (3PQ) team were rewarded when they won the award for the best contribution to the Business Continuity Profession for their creation of a “Supply Chain” Questionnaire.

The 3PQ is a free resource that can be used and adapted by anyone to help them gauge the capabilities of their suppliers and partners. It outlines a simple, consistent set of parameters, simplifying the process and reducing the amount of time and work involved in assessing their supply chain. The value of this document is easily recognised by the number of times it has been downloaded from the Continuity Forum website where it is hosted – 14,000 downloads.

Gayle Hedgecock, Chair of BANG 3PQ commented at the awards ceremony, “We are pleased to see that the 3PQ has been focused upon once again and that the team’s work has now been recognised with this prestigious award. Now is the right time for organisations to fully embrace this questionnaire and to review the Business Continuity Management (BCM) capability of their supply chain, as part of their preparedness for the London 2012 Olympics, any unusual events and for day-to-day operations.”

Steve Yates FBCI, the BANG Chair, commented that, “BANG was established over 4 years ago to bring together Business Continuity, Emergency Managers as a professional networking Group, and build a bridge between the Public & Private sectors for the transfer of organizational resilience knowledge. Today BANG numbers some 1,000 individual members located around the world. The Group fully understands the need of sharing information and producing specific industry tools that will be of assistance to all resilience professionals. The BANG 3PQ Team should be seen as the vanguard for future supportive work, using the combined knowledge of BANG members to deliver more tools to increase the resilience of organisations and the productivity of those working in this field.”

[The 3PQ documents can be obtained from http://www.continuitycentral.com/news06026.html ]

•Date: 30th April 2012 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

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