Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. Are you interested in taking college-level classes on business continuity, emergency management, or homeland security?

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

For example, business continuity management has a slightly different set of priorities which induces it to change the emphasis among triggering factors (Elliott et al. Approaches to emergency management teaching at the master’s level. Journal of Emergency Management 11(1): 59-72. Alexander, D.E. Elliott, D., Swartz and B.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Why did they not anticipate this as a possibility and put in place a contingency plan, which they could have on the shelf ready for the moment if it was needed? Case study – Courier company plans verified by exercises. We were rolling out business continuity plans for their parcel operation.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

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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CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The losses include the destruction of building and infrastructures, as well as losses in business operations. In this second article in our three-part series for “Preparing Coastal Businesses for the Big 3,” we focus on what your business needs to do to effectively and efficiently prepare for an earthquake.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The NCSC was heavily pushing incident management, exercising, and developing plans. What I thought was interesting was that the cyber industry, in terms of incident response, seems to be where the emergency planning profession was 20 years ago.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

In our role as business continuity professionals, we are probably unable to influence our staff, customers, partners and suppliers experience of the peak, but we are able to influence how these stakeholders perceive our response to the end of the incident.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

You get a new job and have been hired by organisation X to roll out business continuity within the company. You have just completed the crisis team exercise; luckily, it’s a small business with only one plan and one incident management team, so you can relax.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

After an incident, we as business continuity people are unlikely to get the same level of support to carry out an investigation. It is in use in the UK by many in the emergency planning fraternity. She carried out a wide range of interviews to gain the information for her report.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 14, 2017

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. The poor BIA is getting a hard time at the moment, with a number of practitioners questioning its usefulness and there is some debate among business continuity practitioners about whether it can be dispensed with.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

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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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

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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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

What does that mean to us business continuity people? The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. If you do acknowledge an anniversary then how long do you go on for 5, 10, 50 years?

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

Information has been given, but only when prompted by external events, such as The Times article and other articles on the data release. I noticed in a ZDNet article that they are alleging that SEPA’s data has been leaked by the cybercriminal group behind Conti ransomware. The article can be read here.

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The maintenance recommendations highlighted in this article apply to buildings located north of the 32°F line designated on the map. DEVELOP COVID-TAILORED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR WINTER WEATHER. You’ll need to decide whether to re-open or remain closed after a winter storm.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

The UK has spent a lot of money on flood defences nevertheless, every year, a town or a village gets flooded, and we’ll see pictures of ruined houses, businesses and people throwing their possessions in a skip as they have been contaminated by floodwater.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 22, 2013

I suspect the Boston Marathon had its’ own multi-agency emergency plan, with the relevant responders and incident managers, on site ready to respond to any incident and implement the plan. About 36 hours into the Texas incident, the Texas Governor turned up and was the first official to manage information on the incident.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

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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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I have developed crisis management plans, emergency plans and business continuity plans at all levels, for a multitude of different organisations and industries. Charlie looks at Timothy Coombs’ ‘Situational Crisis Communications Theory’ and how you can develop a crisis response strategy from it.

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