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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

If there is an existing Enterprise Risk Management framework in the organization, can you use that in your Business Continuity Planning? Or, should you create a new Risk Register and new Risk Assessments for each department inside the Business Continuity Plan?

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The Business Continuity Podcast – Preview

The Business Continuity Podcast

We delve into the exercises and methodologies that keep organisations like The Economist, Fujitsu and the London Fire Brigade secure and resilient, and explore just how much continuity planning goes into something like the London 2012 Olympics.

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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 But even an existing business continuity plan is no guarantee for safety as it might be outdated, poorly drilled and exercised or even badly designed.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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Business Continuity & The Olympics – is your organisation ready

Plan B Consulting

I attended an excellent talk by Steve Yates at the Scottish Resilience Conference on Monday and he was talking about business continuity and the Olympics. In 2012 there are also other major sporting events such as Wimbledon as well as the Paralympic Games which will again add to the disruption.

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Business Continuity & The Olympics – is your organisation ready

Plan B Consulting

I attended an excellent talk by Steve Yates at the Scottish Resilience Conference on Monday and he was talking about business continuity and the Olympics. In 2012 there are also other major sporting events such as Wimbledon as well as the Paralympic Games which will again add to the disruption.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

When I talk to Jacqui Semple, Head of the EPS and Resilience Lead at Angus Council, about incidents and the lessons learned from them, she always corrects me by saying they are ‘lessons identified’. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying.