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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name. Being well-managed is also important so if something does occur, the management team or organisation is nimble enough to deal with it.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name. Being well-managed is also important so if something does occur, the management team or organisation is nimble enough to deal with it.

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Working in a Hybrid World – The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms

Plan B Consulting

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK.

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Bonkers for Conkers!!

Plan B Consulting

So coming back to business continuity, what is the relevance of health and safety to business continuity? One of my jobs as Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, as soon as a major incident occurred, was to find staff members to fill all the shifts at the incident room.

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Ransomware attack: Who ya gonna call, Mike?

Plan B Consulting

A while ago I was the Emergency Planning Manager for a large company, as they had many international travellers, travelling to all parts of the world. Part of my role was to make sure that we were ready to respond if staff were kidnapped.

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05/09/2014 The Importance of Debriefing

Plan B Consulting

After an incident, we as business continuity people are unlikely to get the same level of support to carry out an investigation. A very eminent professor, who was an expert in child protection, carried out the Rochdale inquiry and she had a team of people to help her. A long time ago I was involved in the water industry.