Plan B Consulting

MAY 30, 2022

In this bulletin, Charlie discusses business continuity in Saudi, where he has been conducting exercises and workshops. This week, I have been in Riyadh delivering a series of workshops, exercises, and business continuity reviews. The bottom line is that Saudi is a hotbed of good business continuity practice.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is business continuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Is it time for Business Continuity Managers to step away from the COVID-19 response? The initial and obvious answer is yes, it is a business continuity issue and probably the largest incident most business continuity professionals will face in their lifetime.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Is it time for Business Continuity Managers to step away from the COVID-19 response? The initial and obvious answer is yes, it is a business continuity issue and probably the largest incident most business continuity professionals will face in their lifetime.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Business continuity programs need to be agile in order to protect their organizations in today’s chaotic environment. Well-chosen BCM software can help a continuity program be more nimble and effective. In this environment, agility is not a nice to have, it’s a must have. It’s a critical BCM performance attribute.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Continuity. And, as a business continuity professional, have they changed in scope and complexity in the past year? Has the coronavirus pandemic altered the way you approach these for business? This is one of the many positive changes for resiliency post-pandemic for many organizations. “I Resilience.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

This week I mark the six elements of the business continuity lifecycle out of 10, based on their effectiveness during the COVID-10 outbreak. I always say that when rolling out business continuity there will usually be a new risk which we discover. Due to this, I mark policy and programme management 3 out of 10.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

This week I mark the six elements of the business continuity lifecycle out of 10, based on their effectiveness during the COVID-10 outbreak. I always say that when rolling out business continuity there will usually be a new risk which we discover. Due to this, I mark policy and programme management 3 out of 10.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 13, 2023

Business continuity professionals need to be sure their recovery plans and strategies are fully adapted to the new reality. Business continuity management (BCM) professionals hustled to adapt their recovery strategies and plans to the new workplace model.

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Castellan

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As the threat landscape and risks continue to evolve and expand in business continuity and operational resilience for organizations of all sizes around the globe, it is becoming increasingly more important for industry professionals to evolve and change with it. From Disaster Recovery to Operational Resilience.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. Right now, the pace of change in the broader society is as fast as I’ve ever seen it, and that looks to continue for the foreseeable future. Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct.

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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. There are many public-spirited professional groups and organizations focused on BC. Other BCM professionals.

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KingsBridge BCP

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s human nature not to, but as Business Continuity professionals we must keep looking forward to anticipate new risks even when it seems that “been there, done that” is the collective mood during these Uncertain Times. We’re not “done” with Covid-19 by any means, and we will have another global pandemic.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Business continuity professionals need to focus on strategic communication and how corporations take responsibility for their actions. Jon Seals, producer Jon Seals is the editor in chief at Disaster Recovery Journal, the leading magazine/event in business continuity. Request a demo at [link] today!

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Business continuity professionals need to focus on strategic communication and how corporations take responsibility for their actions. Jon Seals, producer Jon Seals is the editor in chief at Disaster Recovery Journal, the leading magazine/event in business continuity. Request a demo at [link] today!

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Castellan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Business as usual. It’s a catchphrase many of us have used, especially business continuity professionals who have successfully conquered the latest disruption or disaster and played a key role in leading an organization to a return to normal. Every crisis I’ve faced has been different,” Knafo explains. “In

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Business continuity professionals need to focus on strategic communication and how corporations take responsibility for their actions. LinkedIn: [link] Book Mathews as a speaker: [link] Jon Seals, producer Jon Seals is the editor in chief at Disaster Recovery Journal, the leading magazine/event in business continuity.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Coronavirus is everywhere, it is going to have a big impact on society, we have not seen an uncontainable pandemic in many of our lifetimes and at the moment there is no cure or treatment. We shouldn’t be ordering people around and treating them as commodities, in our desire to mitigate the effect of the pandemic.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Charlie discusses the theory of wicked problems, what it means for business continuity professionals and how we are able to implement this idea into our plans. If we take a look at the response to the present COVID pandemic and the lessons we learnt from the Spanish Influenza of 1918, you cannot compare them.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Charlie discusses the theory of wicked problems, what it means for business continuity professionals and how we are able to implement this idea into our plans. If we take a look at the response to the present COVID pandemic and the lessons we learnt from the Spanish Influenza of 1918, you cannot compare them.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Coronavirus is everywhere, it is going to have a big impact on society, we have not seen an uncontainable pandemic in many of our lifetimes and at the moment there is no cure or treatment. We shouldn’t be ordering people around and treating them as commodities, in our desire to mitigate the effect of the pandemic.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Charlie discusses the theory of wicked problems, what it means for business continuity professionals and how we are able to implement this idea into our plans. If we take a look at the response to the present COVID pandemic and the lessons we learnt from the Spanish Influenza of 1918, you cannot compare them.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This week, Charlie comments on how Raith Rovers and West Ham (Zouma) have handled their recent PR incidents, and what we as business continuity professionals can take away from that. I am not a big fan of football being a rugby man myself, so I am a little surprised to find myself writing about football two weeks in a row.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This week, Charlie comments on how Raith Rovers and West Ham (Zouma) have handled their recent PR incidents, and what we as business continuity professionals can take away from that. I am not a big fan of football being a rugby man myself, so I am a little surprised to find myself writing about football two weeks in a row.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This week, Charlie comments on how Raith Rovers and West Ham (Zouma) have handled their recent PR incidents, and what we as business continuity professionals can take away from that. I am not a big fan of football being a rugby man myself, so I am a little surprised to find myself writing about football two weeks in a row.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

The recent announcement of the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic makes this a good time to review the five types of risk. During COVID, business tended to focus on only two of the five risk types; however, organizations that want to prosper over the long term need to be cognizant of and plan for all five kinds of risk.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 24, 2021

Whether it’s an incident affecting a single location, or a pandemic sweeping the globe, business continuity is increasingly vulnerable to a wide variety of natural and man-made interruptions for which organizations must plan as carefully as they plan for launching any product or service.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The world is being rocked by overlapping crises and conflicts including the pandemic, economic uncertainty, the rise in extreme weather, the war in Ukraine, and rising tensions between the West and Russia and China, to name a few. It’s enough to make an organization leader or business continuity professional feel unwell.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2019

In Part 2 of Charlie’s blogs on Business Continuity Plans, he looks at the different audiences and how we can develop future plans. In last week’s bulletin we looked at what plans are for and the different purposes of business continuity and crisis management plans.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2019

In Part 2 of Charlie’s blogs on Business Continuity Plans, he looks at the different audiences and how we can develop future plans. In last week’s bulletin we looked at what plans are for and the different purposes of business continuity and crisis management plans.

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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. As part of your business continuity manual workarounds, check if your machinery can be operated manually. Water industry 1995.

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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. As part of your business continuity manual workarounds, check if your machinery can be operated manually.

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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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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations. Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. Reading Time: 26 minutes.

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