New research commissioned by ServiceNow has surveyed 900 C-suite leaders and 8,100 employees from various organizations to look at how organizations are adapting to pandemic disruption.
In a series of short surveys Continuity Central is looking to gain a picture of how your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed your view or approach to your business continuity program.
As organizations around the world were abruptly thrown into having to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, business continuity management became a key focal point. With hindsight there is, of course, much to learn about how things can be improved for future events. Here Marc Hardwick highlights some key lessons learned…
During a virtual ceremony on November 19th, BCI announced the winners of the 2020 Global Awards, which recognize business continuity and resilience excellence from around the world. Entrants in the BCI Global Awards have all won regional BCI awards during 2020.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is launching an independent review of an incident that affected its real-time gross settlement system TARGET2 on 23rd October 2020, causing an outage for almost 10 hours. An initial investigation determined that a software defect in a network device was the specific technical cause of the incident.
Coinciding with the UK's terrorism threat level being raised from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’, meaning that a terror attack is ‘highly likely’, the National Counter Terrorism Security Office has released new guidance on managing business continuity.
Remote working has been one of the main business continuity strategies employed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but researchers have shown that remote working results in increased fatigue for employees, something which needs to be taken into account and managed.
Standards Australia has published a briefing paper to explore the way forward for risk management and business continuity standards published by the organization. The ‘Risk Management and Business Continuity Sector Briefing Paper’ outlines a proposed plan for activities in this area.
A new organization, The Business Continuity Coalition (BCC), has been set up in the United States with the aim of helping pandemic recovery by ‘working with Congress, the Administration, and other stakeholders to achieve a workable Federal program that enhances and strengthens economic recovery’.
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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.
