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The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies

Erwood Group

The Future of Business Continuity The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies In an era of rapid technological advancement, the landscape of business continuity is evolving, embracing innovations and emerging technologies to enhance resilience.

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Operational Resilience: Is it just business continuity done properly?

Plan B Consulting

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. I have been working on an operational resilience exercise for a client, which is based around taking a ‘severe but plausible scenario’ and then checking whether the scenario breaches the organisation’s impact tolerances.

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Operationalizing resilience for your organization

everbridge

By Tracy Reinhold , CSO of Everbridge The following article addresses how organizations can navigate global geopolitical waters, and operationalize resilience for their organization, people, and assets. Scenario Planning : Developing scenarios based on potential risks and their impacts.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

This week I talk about writing incident scenarios and how different business continuity plans have come back in style. This is the same in the business continuity industry, with the return of risk scenarios which has gone full circle over the last 20 years. I like the idea of scenario planning.

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Product Recall: A Checklist of Actions

Plan B Consulting

I do not claim to be an expert in the finer processes of a product recall, but some of the issues associated with product recalls are very similar to those associated with crisis management or business continuity. There is the old adage in business continuity that “you can outsource the activity, but not the risk”.

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The difference between a generic response and contingency plans

Plan B Consulting

When I look at plans, which we see a lot of for different organisations, they are a mixture of generic incident management, interwoven with a number of plans and procedures for managing a particular incident. Figure 1 – Details of generic content of a plan.

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A Checklist for the Loss of People

Plan B Consulting

Many companies are even planning for as high as 50% of their staff isolating for two weeks. Here are some thoughts on how you can plan to deal with the loss of employees. As we are in the business continuity profession, we should already be implementing these practices now rather than later.