CCEM Strategies

JULY 5, 2023

Emergency management responsibilities are shared by local and provincial governments, First Nations, critical infrastructure, businesses and individual citizens. All these stakeholders are responsible to prepare for disasters and contribute to community resiliency. Need help developing your plan or training program?

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All-Hazards Emergency Planning Continuity Planning Hazard 52

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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Business Continuity Authorization Activation Strategic 52

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.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Authorization Activation Strategic 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the first bulletin of his new ‘Business Continuity 2025’ series, Charlie discusses what incidents might look like in 2025. I intend to write a series of bulletins over the next few months where I imagine what business continuity might look like in 2025.

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Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery 40

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the first bulletin of his new ‘Business Continuity 2025’ series, Charlie discusses what incidents might look like in 2025. I intend to write a series of bulletins over the next few months where I imagine what business continuity might look like in 2025.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery 40

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It was also recognised that there was a need to improve post-quake response through public and specialist training for emergency and civil defence volunteers. Additionally, it was acknowledged that old buildings needed to undergo structural assessments and improvements to enhance their resilience to earthquakes.

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Emergency Planning Communications Resilience Government 52

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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Business Continuity Education Emergency Planning Publishing 40

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.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Education Emergency Planning Publishing 40

Castellan

AUGUST 2, 2022

Half of the respondents to the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) 2022 Extreme Weather and Climate Report say their organization has experienced delays or disruptions acquiring key products because of the impact of climate-related events on the supply chain. Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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Response Plan Resilience Business Continuity Communications 52

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. Business continuity professionals tend to be serious, responsible, helpful people who have a professional dedication toward minimizing outages and their impact for everyone.

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BCM All-Hazards Disaster Recovery Hazard 92

CCEM Strategies

JULY 24, 2018

This is because, long before an incident occurs, CI operators work with governments to create and test emergency plans to ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, to deal with unforeseen disruptions.

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Resilience All-Hazards Hazard Authorization 52

CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

Review and Enhance Flood Plans Your community already has emergency plans, and you may even have flood-specific plans. Review the plans and think about how flooding might impact your community. Need Help with Risk Assessments, Planning and/or Engagement?

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All-Hazards Hazard Natural Hazard Transportation 52

CCEM Strategies

JUNE 13, 2018

Emergency management responsibilities are shared by local and provincial governments, First Nations, critical infrastructure, businesses and individual citizens. All of these stakeholders are responsible to prepare for disasters and contribute to community resiliency - no exceptions.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Disaster Recovery Hazard Emergency Planning 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The government was represented by the NCSC, ICO, CyBOK UK, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Scotland, and Scottish Business Resilience Centre as well as their English and Welsh equivalents. The NCSC was heavily pushing incident management, exercising, and developing plans.

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Government Consulting Emergency Planning Resilience 52

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.

Crisis Management 52

Crisis Management Management Banking Business Continuity 52

Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Climate change can make regional weather conditions more erratic, resulting in sudden rises in sea levels, droughts or other changes that businesses with conventional emergency plans might not be prepared for. Climate Change Resiliency. Business as usual is giving way to continuous transformation.

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Hazard Manufacturing Disaster Recovery Resilience 40

CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. s DRIPA, local governments are now required to consult and cooperate with neighbouring First Nations governments during all phases of emergency management. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s

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CCEM Strategies

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Contact us for customized business continuity and emergency management planning. How can you ensure minimal interruption to your business operations in the event of an earthquake? Planning and preparation are key and our experienced business continuity team can provide customized products for your business.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Education Resilience Emergency Planning 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The government was represented by the NCSC, ICO, CyBOK UK, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Scotland, and Scottish Business Resilience Centre as well as their English and Welsh equivalents. The NCSC was heavily pushing incident management, exercising, and developing plans.

Government 40

Government Consulting Emergency Planning Resilience 40

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.

Crisis Management 52

Crisis Management Management Banking Emergency Planning 52

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.

Crisis Management 40

Crisis Management Management Banking Business Continuity 40

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. 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.

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Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 47: Business continuity management only applies to the private sector. Reality: The public sector (municipal, regional and national governments and associated agencies) must be able to weather disaster and continue its activities just as any private company should. Myth 46: Disasters always happen to someone else.

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Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

A few weeks ago, I wrote a bulletin on scenario planning and how under the new requirement of Operational Resilience for FCA and PRA, regulated organisations now have a requirement to determine ‘extreme but plausible scenarios’ to see if they would continue delivering their services if the said scenario occurred.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Scenario Planning Pandemic Travel 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. 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.

Outage 40

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 40