Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). About 15-20 years ago, the concept used (which is very old-school now) were to write plans for specific events.

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Online Computers

MAY 14, 2023

This is why it’s critical to develop a business continuity plan (BCP) and create reliable systems that can keep operations running smoothly in the face of challenges such as natural disasters, cyberattacks, or unforeseen events. By creating an effective BCP, your business can weather any catastrophe and continue your operations.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2012

Those of you who have been watching the Olympics for the last couple of weeks cannot fail to have noticed the immerse amount and planning that must have gone on to make the games such a success. The doom-mongers prophesied terrorist attacks, transport chaos and a heroic British muddle through.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2012

Those of you who have been watching the Olympics for the last couple of weeks cannot fail to have noticed the immerse amount and planning that must have gone on to make the games such a success. The doom-mongers prophesied terrorist attacks, transport chaos and a heroic British muddle through.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2021

This week, Charlie goes into depth about different business continuity plans, how to know which plan suits which incident, and how to create a framework that works for you! I have spoken about the requirement for writing generic response plans in a previous bulletin.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 10, 2021

This week I look at why building capability is important for implementing your business continuity plan. The post Business Continuity Capability – What is it and do I need it? appeared first on PlanB Consulting. The UK military uses the mnemonic TEPID OIL to remember all the elements which go into achieving a capability.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 10, 2021

This week I look at why building capability is important for implementing your business continuity plan. In terms of responses, many business continuity plans contain several responses, they could typically be in response to: Loss of a building Loss of IT Loss of people Loss of a key supplier.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I attended an excellent talk by Steve Yates at the Scottish Resilience Conference on Monday and he was talking about business continuity and the Olympics. All these event will cause transport disruptions and have an impact on the ability of businesses and public sector organisations to deliver their services to customers and stakeholders.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I attended an excellent talk by Steve Yates at the Scottish Resilience Conference on Monday and he was talking about business continuity and the Olympics. All these event will cause transport disruptions and have an impact on the ability of businesses and public sector organisations to deliver their services to customers and stakeholders.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 15, 2013

Transport seems one of the items of infrastructure which was hit and the train line to the South west of England was closed for a number of days. If this was a busy commuter line into a major city and your staff mainly come in to work by train you may have to put your business continuity plans into place to deal with the lack of staff.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 15, 2013

Transport seems one of the items of infrastructure which was hit and the train line to the South west of England was closed for a number of days. If this was a busy commuter line into a major city and your staff mainly come in to work by train you may have to put your business continuity plans into place to deal with the lack of staff.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

As we are not yet out of the winter you may need to plan for snow. When I am teaching people about business continuity, one of the events which I suggest could cause invocation of the business continuity plan is forecasted severe weather.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

More than anything, the incident showed that although many people would not consider terrorism as a key part of their business continuity planning, – it can happen right here on our doorstep and it can bring chaos to the surrounding businesses and organisations. How would your firm fare if employees couldn’t make it to work?

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

More than anything, the incident showed that although many people would not consider terrorism as a key part of their business continuity planning, – it can happen right here on our doorstep and it can bring chaos to the surrounding businesses and organisations. How would your firm fare if employees couldn’t make it to work?

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2021

When I talk about contingency plans, I am not thinking about the ‘old school’ methodology where you write a plan for every eventuality. All the plans are basically the same but have a different heading. This style of plan was once very popular in the US, and I still use it occasionally.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

Having excess inventory costs money, uses up warehouse space and transport capacity, which could be used for better selling items and perishable goods with short sell-by-dates, whereby the supermarket takes a loss on any of these items which are thrown away. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

Having excess inventory costs money, uses up warehouse space and transport capacity, which could be used for better selling items and perishable goods with short sell-by-dates, whereby the supermarket takes a loss on any of these items which are thrown away. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

As we are not yet out of the winter you may need to plan for snow When I am teaching people about business continuity, one of the events which I suggest could cause invocation of the business continuity plan is forecasted severe weather.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 3, 2012

If fuel is essential to your business for example if you are a transport company, then you should have already have plans in place for dealing with a strike, such as having your own fuel supplies which can keep you going for a number of days. The post Fuel crisis appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 3, 2012

If fuel is essential to your business for example if you are a transport company, then you should have already have plans in place for dealing with a strike, such as having your own fuel supplies which can keep you going for a number of days. The post Fuel crisis appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many organisations, especially those in oil and gas, manufacturing and transport industries, have emergency response plans in place. You might also have business continuity plans in place, but there is often a gap between where the emergency response plans end and the recovery can start.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many organisations, especially those in oil and gas, manufacturing and transport industries, have emergency response plans in place. You might also have business continuity plans in place, but there is often a gap between where the emergency response plans end and the recovery can start.

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