Robin Bucknall MA, MSc reviews various approaches to the business impact analysis, assessing whether it is still fit for purpose, and suggesting how the BIA process could be simplified and refocused to make it more useable.
Jim Preen gathers the opinions of a number of crisis management (CM) professionals from around the world on whether CM is becoming centralised, as suggested in a recent BCI report, and whether this is a positive development. Other emerging CM themes are also explored.
ISO has published an updated version of ISO/TS 22317, ‘Security and resilience - Business continuity management systems - Guidelines for business impact analysis’. The new ISO/TS 22317:2021 replaces ISO/TS 22317:2015, which has now been withdrawn.
What did Continuity Central readers find most interesting during 2021? Out of more than a thousand pieces of content published, here are the top twenty feature articles...
There are various common areas where business continuity plans fall down. Here, Colin Jeffs highlights some of these, providing his top tips to keep your business continuity planning on track, and to improve the quality of your plans.
The BCI recently presented its annual Global Awards at a virtual ceremony. The awards ‘recognise the achievements of individuals, teams, and organizations working in business continuity and resilience across the world’.
Gulf Air has announced that the company successfully conducted a three-day business continuity test of operational systems with no interruption to operations.
Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the UK believe that, despite the disruption they have experienced since the beginning of 2020, their business continuity plans responded well to both the COVID-19 pandemic (71 percent) and Brexit (55 percent).
There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether business continuity as a profession needs to take a more strategic role in organizations. Luke Bird FBCI CRISC gives his view of the current situation and the development that is needed within the profession.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
