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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

While business continuity has been in practice since the 1970s and could be argued that it has been around since the 1950s through strategic planning it is something that is not common knowledge. Some managers have authority and experience as to when to invoke all or parts of a business continuity plan. BCP and BCP Meaning.

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Operational Resilience vs. Business Continuity: Do You Need Both?

Diligent

Operational resilience, on the other hand, tends to be more akin to business continuity: the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority defines it as “the ability of firms…to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions.”. An essential foundation of any BCP is the data on which your planning is built.