A new survey by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Ireland reveals that almost 8 out of 10 (78 percent) of business leaders in that country say their organization had a business continuity plan in place in advance of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the first COVID-19 lockdown hit, many UK organizations rapidly ramped up home working as a business continuity strategy. A new survey report from Daisy Corporate Services has found that the majority expect to maintain this stance through 2021.
The Events Industry Council (EIC) has published a guide to business continuity. The Business Continuity Accepted Practices Guide is the latest guide produced by EIC’s APEX COVID-19 Business Recovery Task Force.
Prompted by the recent boom in videoconferencing, Professor Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), examined the psychological consequences of spending hours per day on these platforms. The results provide some relevant information for when videoconferencing is used during incident response.
Following on from his previous Continuity Central article, Andy Osborne shares further business continuity advice from the 101 tips included in his new book 'Practical Business Continuity Management 2'. Here he chooses his favourite three tips from the book...
The BCI has announced that the annual Business Continuity Awareness Week will take place from 17th-21st May 2021. The BCAW theme will be ‘Business continuity starts with you’. The BCI says that it is taking a ‘back to basics’ approach
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, and Azrieli College have demonstrated that ozone can effectively be used to disinfect surfaces which have been contaminated with the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2.
The BCI has released the 6th edition of the BCI Emergency Communications Report. This annual publication, sponsored by F24 this year, provides insights into how organizations communicate in an emergency, the key communication challenges organizations face, and how technology is helping to assist in communications processes.
In an article which provides background information for those who are new to the business continuity profession, Jordan MacAvoy explains what a business impact analysis is and describes its role in the business continuity planning process.
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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.
