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Are you ready if you lost it all?

KingsBridge BCP

On a Friday morning in 2010, I woke up to my radio blasting news about a gas explosion in San Francisco. We help build, exercise, and maintain Business Continuity Plans. I listened to the reporter describe the scene of absolute chaos with over 60 homes destroyed and people reported missing and dead. About KingsBridge.

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Business Continuity and the critical Role of Emergency Communication Why Business Continuity Fails Business Continuity often fails, and reasons are manifold. But even an existing business continuity plan is no guarantee for safety as it might be outdated, poorly drilled and exercised or even badly designed.

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Business Continuity often fails, and reasons are manifold. If no business continuity plan exists, there will be ineffective emergency communication and any response to emergency situations depends on the capabilities and action of solitary individuals and its efficacy is random. For large-scale events this can be disastrous.

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Why Crisis Management Preparedness Matters

everbridge

And, according to management consultancy McKinsey , between 2010 and 2017, the name of a Forbes-recognized top 100 company appeared in headlines together with the word “crisis” 80 percent more often than in the previous decade — and those are just the organizations that made the news.

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Right Wing Terrorism

Plan B Consulting

The figures from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism showed that between 1990 and 2010 right wing extremists carried out 145 murderous attacks resulting in 348 deaths, 168 resulted from the Oklahoma City Bombing.

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Right Wing Terrorism

Plan B Consulting

The figures from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism showed that between 1990 and 2010 right wing extremists carried out 145 murderous attacks resulting in 348 deaths, 168 resulted from the Oklahoma City Bombing.

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A picture paints 1000 words…….

Plan B Consulting

If we recognise the power and impact an image can have, we should think about building this into our business continuity plans. BP posted some official photographs of the famous oil platform disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Social media can lead to a photo from an incident going viral almost instantly worldwide.

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