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10 questions a BCM should ask about staff travelling abroad

Plan B Consulting

Strangely enough, I am just about to help a client plan an exercise involving the loss of one of their staff while travelling abroad on company business, and the trouble in Yemen certainly gave me a lot of food for thought. There are 10 questions a business continuity manager should be asking concerning staff travel abroad: 1.

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10 questions a BCM should ask about staff travelling abroad

Plan B Consulting

Strangely enough, I am just about to help a client plan an exercise involving the loss of one of their staff while travelling abroad on company business, and the trouble in Yemen certainly gave me a lot of food for thought. There are 10 questions a business continuity manager should be asking concerning staff travel abroad: 1.

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BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management  

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. The strategic side of CM refers to preparations and mitigations the organization should put in place ahead of time to strengthen its crisis response capability. Labor and human resources.

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They Called Me ‘The Queen of Doom’

Disaster Recovery Journal

But that was my unofficial designation when I worked for the largest insurance broker in the world some 20 odd years ago. I was teaching a business continuity class at our remote office in Detroit when a hysterical woman pulled me from the class to go to the breakroom television. Likewise, none of us can mitigate everything.

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After coronavirus, what next?

Plan B Consulting

We live in a fairly safe world in that there are cures for most diseases, we can build defences against nature and most threats we have met before, and there is insurance which at least gives us money to rebuild. 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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After coronavirus, what next?

Plan B Consulting

We live in a fairly safe world in that there are cures for most diseases, we can build defences against nature and most threats we have met before, and there is insurance which at least gives us money to rebuild. 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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Zika revisited

Plan B Consulting

In this week’s bulletin I revisit the subject, highlighting what Business Continuity Managers should be aware of within their organisations. When I travelled to Mexico a couple of months ago, there were posts all over the airport in Houston, Texas warning about the virus.

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