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Drones – A New Business Continuity threat

Plan B Consulting

This got me thinking about how the use of drones could impact business continuity. In the 9/11 attacks, planes were used as bombs, but there was an immense amount of preparation work, including learning to fly airliners by the attackers before they could implement their attack. This week, a drone attacked a U.S.

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An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage

Plan B Consulting

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. If ‘it couldn’t happen’ were true, all of us business continuity professionals would be out of a job, and the Titanic wouldn’t have sunk!

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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. We’re also familiar with the tendency of many executives to treat business continuity as an inconvenience and the threat of disruptions as too slight to worry about. These helpful negative examples come to us courtesy of Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines.

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Choosing the Right Crisis Leader

BryghtPath

The aftermath of this incident resulted in a significant reputational crisis for United Airlines. In April 2017, the internet exploded with the viral video of a passenger being dragged from United Express Flight 3411 by security and law enforcement officers in Chicago after refusing to exit the aircraft after the flight had been overbooked.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Over the last couple of months, I have been part of the team working on two different standards.

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Planning to Fail: 10 Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their BC Plans

MHA Consulting

Most organizations recognize the importance of having a sound business continuity recovery plan, but many plans are undermined by the presence of overlooked weaknesses. Think of the information an airline pilot might encounter. Thinking of writing the document as the activity.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I noticed, with slight amusement, that every business continuity and IT armchair pundit have taken to social media to express their outrage. British Airways is a reasonably well-run airline and their profits last year were twice of similar sized airlines, so they must be doing something right.

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