Plan B Consulting

JULY 18, 2015

This week I am working in the Philippines, developing business continuity for a multinational building materials manufacturer. It is my first time here so I thought I would share some lessons learned from developing business continuity in a different country to my own; the United Kingdom.

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eBRP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This resilience defines an enterprise’s capacity to restore its operations, assets, and services to ensure uninterrupted delivery of products and services. The choice of recovery strategies, like split production or high-availability configurations, is vital to minimize downtime and maintain business continuity.

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example: Risk assessments and emergency and business continuity plans now need to consider Indigenous knowledge, climate change, cultural safety, and impacts on vulnerable persons, animals, places or things. Build on and reference existing risk assessments, plans, and other program elements.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

Have a strong business continuity plan Having a strong management plan for your business’s continuity, specifically for when your organization’s capacity and capabilities are limited, is imperative. Include work arounds, alternatives, and redundancies in your planning this summer, rain or shine.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Capacity limitations. We often see that efforts to recover critical apps are derailed by limitations in computing or storage capacity.

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Erwood Group

JULY 12, 2022

Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans. Business Continuity Plans. Chances are if you’re visiting this page, you are new to the concept of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and business continuity overall. Definition of Business Continuity Plan.

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Stratogrid Advisory

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Business continuity planners must always be on the lookout for such trends to ensure that their plans stay effective over time. Making matters worse is the fact that this sensitive information is usually shared in some capacity with other entities that may not employ adequate cyber protection. Cyber Threats.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery The Price of Neglecting IT/DR Being a business continuity consultant can be frustrating. Inadequate or nonexistent IT/DR planning is a problem that rears its ugly head everywhere we go. Business Continuity Representative.

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IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Business continuity management. BCM (business continuity management) is a form of risk management that deals with the threat of business activities or processes being interrupted. Any downtime can be unacceptable given the pace of modern life, so it is essential for organisations to plan for disaster.

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IT Governance BC

MAY 20, 2019

You’ll rarely get advance warning about disruptions, so you need to prepare for whatever might come your way with a BCP (business continuity plan). What is a business continuity plan? But business continuity planning isn’t about recovering IT. Business continuity vs disaster recovery.

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Stratogrid Advisory

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Unsurprisingly, governance also plays a key role in Business Continuity Management (BCM) , because effective BCM needs to be a part of the organization’s “way of life”. BCM is not a project that terminates at a given date, but rather a practice that must be continuously integrated into the organization’s operations. 18 Articles.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Business Continuity Solutions from Kyndryl and Portworx by Pure Storage by Pure Storage Blog This blog post is co-authored by Cyrus Niltchian, Director, Offering Management at Kyndryl, and Scott Dedman, AVP, Global Strategy & Solutions at Pure Storage. Stay in business.

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Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A business sign that says Open on cafe or restaurant hang on door at entrance. Activate your business continuity plan. Place non-slip mats in front of entryways to prevent slipping as employees and customers enter/exit your business property. After a winter event. Vintage color tone style. Ensure everyone is safe.

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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. Case study – Courier company plans verified by exercises.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 31, 2022

Carbonite offers cloud and hybrid business continuity solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. Druva customers can reduce costs by eliminating the need for hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Recovery Point provides integrated business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Carbonite offers cloud and hybrid business continuity solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. Druva customers can reduce costs by eliminating the need for hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Recovery Point provides integrated business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

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Zerto

APRIL 6, 2023

This framework captures your business continuity and disaster recovery plans, so it must be regularly updated as the organization scales and its risk profile expands or shrinks. It also forms the basis for investing in risk management strategies, such as business continuity and disaster recovery.

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IT Governance BC

JULY 30, 2024

Having a business continuity plan [BCP] is invaluable, but you can’t foresee every type of event. Back in 2020, most organisations hadn’t planned for a pandemic, for example. Find out what your critical suppliers’ business continuity plans are – how proactive are they about service availability?

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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 When writing this bulletin, I was reminded of some work we did for a courier company.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

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IBM Business Resiliency

MAY 20, 2021

There’s only so much capacity in the market, but you can improve your competitive position by simply identifying the risks and leveraging those insights to consistently deliver on your promises to customers. Once you have this information, you can drive immediate supply chain actions and begin to craft your supply chain risk strategy.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the supermarket business, this is especially true. Shops and other retailers should, as part of their business continuity plan, impose rationing on panic buying items as soon as they see it happening.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the supermarket business, this is especially true. Shops and other retailers should, as part of their business continuity plan, impose rationing on panic buying items as soon as they see it happening.

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Fusion Risk Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The final notice from the FCA reveals an interesting scenario which several resilience managers will feel familiar with – from only exercising with the gold team, or assuming that recovery would be possible within a couple of days based on resource owners’ insights, to not having capacity or time to fully inspect critical fourth parties.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery and business continuity to nimbly navigate through such emergencies and maintain functionality in the face of disasters. What is a Business Continuity Plan?

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everbridge

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Now Is NOT the Time to Cut Back on BC/DR Business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) shows up on a company’s balance sheet as an expense. The Plan B for moving funds in a time of constricted capital may be just the ticket for operating in a time of reduced revenue.

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

. Due to COVID-19, businesses may not be operating at a normal capacity. Some may still be vacant, while others are operating at a reduced capacity or with strict COVID protocols. DEVELOP COVID-TAILORED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR WINTER WEATHER.

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BCP Builder

JUNE 16, 2020

How do virtual companies do business continuity planning and what should they be particularly concerned about? IT Infrastructure From a Business Continuity perspective, having critical backup resources is a must. He has company issued capability including internet capacity.

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BCP Builder

JUNE 16, 2020

How do virtual companies do business continuity planning and what should they be particularly concerned about? From a Business Continuity perspective, having critical backup resources is a must. He has company issued capability including internet capacity. IT Infrastructure.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

CIOs can use the capacity required immediately via OPEX, manage costs over time based upon discounting, and have the ability to burst into the type of high IO (a.k.a. You can separate based on business needs, not on performance. Have Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans in Place.

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Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 4, 2022

For example, reductions in production capacity overseas due to government quarantines left many components in shorter supply. Overseas port capacity was restricted because of quarantines and worker shortages due to illness. This reduces reliance on any single supplier or oversized exposure to geographical catastrophe risk.

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ChannelBloom

JUNE 2, 2016

Continuity Planning and Tools. Free tools to help you design your DR plan, calculate your time to recover, understand your storage capacity and utilization plus calculate your backup sizing needs. Super Intuitive Experience.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

Your application must be designed to handle any cascading failures to maintain a continuous user experience even when the backend systems are experiencing issues. Minimum business continuity for failover. In the following sections, we show you the steps we took to improve system resiliency for our example company.

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Pure Storage

JULY 8, 2022

As businesses begin to reprioritize projects put on hold due to the current environment, a top initiative for senior IT leaders is expanding multicloud capabilities as a part of broader digital-transformation strategies. . It’s not surprising that enterprises have accelerated demand for cloud capacity far beyond that prior to 2020.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

DR is a crucial part of your Business Continuity Plan. A warm standby maintains a minimum deployment that can handle requests, but at a reduced capacity—it cannot handle production-level traffic. DR objectives. Like the pilot light strategy, the warm standby strategy maintains live data in addition to periodic backups.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization.

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