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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. 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.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. 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.

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

Plan B Consulting

With this in mind, I am going to share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room.

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An Old Threat Returns

Plan B Consulting

When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle. Not all things sent in the post are designed to harm, sometimes they are just plain stupid.

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The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms Post COVID – In a Hybrid Working World

Plan B Consulting

This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This week I share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

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

Plan B Consulting

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. 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.