The Chocolate Factory, a Netherlands-based chocolate manufacturer, has substituted metal-based replacement parts with 3D printed carbon-filled thermoplastic parts as a solution to production line downtime.
On December 20th 2017, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Record of Discussions with the Government of the Kingdom of Bhutan in Thimphu for the ‘Project for Development of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for Disaster Control’, a technical cooperation project.
Warburtons, the UK-based bakery business, recently saw itself managing a social media crisis of its own making, when a hashtag used in a marketing campaign proved to be extremely inappropriate.
The holidays are over and New Year’s Resolutions have been made. Alongside the personal goals of health and happiness, what can you do to improve your organization’s business continuity and data management plans in 2018? Dave Packer makes six suggestions…
For the past four years Continuity Central has conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the year ahead. This article provides the results of the most recent survey, conducted in Q4 2017. It identifies some interesting changes from previous years…
The Business Continuity Institute has released the latest edition of its annual Emergency Communications Report, which finds that preserving physical security and safety of employees is the greatest concern for business continuity and resilience professionals, especially, when it comes to producing emergency communications plans.
The finalists for the 2018 DRI Awards have been announced by DRI International. The awards recognize individuals and organizations for excellence in the fields of continuity management, technology recovery, and crisis management.
During 2017 Continuity Central published more than 500 business continuity, enterprise risk management, and resilience articles; but which were the most popular? Here are the top ten…
RockDove has published an eBook, ‘Is Your Crisis Plan in Shape for 2018?’ that aims to help organizations with building state-of-the art crisis plans.
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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.
