Plan B Consulting

MAY 17, 2023

We are half way through BCAW and consultant Carly Clements presents her views on operational resilience. In today’s ever-changing and developing world that we are living in, Operational Resilience has never been more important than it is now. Operational Resilience is about how a business can deal with undesired events.

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IBM Business Resiliency

MAY 20, 2021

Less resilient organizations experienced inventory shortages, unexpected demand shifts, decreased productivity, shipment delays and, in some cases, a tarnished brand reputation. There are many different tools available to help build a smarter and more resilient supply chain experience.

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Castellan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Shift to Organizational Resilience. While in part due to successful data breaches that expose vast numbers of records, the Gartner report indicates some of this has been driven by the pandemic where many organizations realized their traditional business continuity management programs couldn’t support managing a large-scale disruption.

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Castellan

AUGUST 16, 2022

Until complications compounded during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s not something most consumers thought much about. Boltz says she has had a crash course into the world of resiliency over the past two years. Boltz’s move into her new role was a step outside of her comfort zone and it was compounded by the pandemic. “In

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 27, 2021

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. I have been working on an operational resilience exercise for a client, which is based around taking a ‘severe but plausible scenario’ and then checking whether the scenario breaches the organisation’s impact tolerances.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Resilience. Has the coronavirus pandemic altered the way you approach these for business? The Resilience Movement. Resilience may very well be a top catchphrase of 2021, but it’s more than that because business leaders are more concerned than ever with overcoming the next major obstacle. Continuity. The New Normal. “I

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The Failover Plan Podcast

AUGUST 10, 2020

Episode Summary: This week, Shane interviews James Mitchell- the Director of Organizational Resilience at the 724-bed Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. The last few months he has been heavily involved with a historic pandemic response at Texas Children’s which involved a 140+ day activation of their incident command system.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Driving Blind: The Problem with Skipping the Threat and Risk Assessment The Need for Threat Intelligence Traditional business continuity methodology leans heavily on the threat and risk assessment or TRA, in which the organization identifies potential threats and ranks them in terms of likelihood and potential impact.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 27, 2021

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. I have been working on an operational resilience exercise for a client, which is based around taking a ‘severe but plausible scenario’ and then checking whether the scenario breaches the organisation’s impact tolerances.

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KingsBridge BCP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We ask Mark about his past in the business continuity field, his thoughts on present trends and where he thinks business continuity/resiliency should be going in the future. S1E4 – Software or Consultants for building your BCP. S1E10 – Business Resilience. Tired of Business Continuity Planning changing its name?

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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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KingsBridge BCP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We ask Mark about his past in the business continuity field, his thoughts on present trends and where he thinks business continuity/resiliency should be going in the future. S1E4 – Software or Consultants for building your BCP. S1E10 – Business Resilience. Tired of Business Continuity Planning changing its name?

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 25, 2020

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. It was conducted over three days and involved 34 different organisations, taking place at national, NHS England, Public Heath England and eight Local Resilience Forums level. Wrong type of flu?

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 25, 2020

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Exercise Cygnus was a command post exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 in order to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom.

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Fusion Risk Management

AUGUST 18, 2022

Operational resilience is not just another buzzword. Resilience enables agility when confronted by the chaos of our present world , and it protects against the disruption of critical customer – facing operations. An Emerging Operational Resilience Standard for Data and Technology.

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Virtual Corporation

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fifty-one percent of organizations surveyed by Mercer Consulting were caught without business continuity plans when the current COVID pandemic erupted. Moreover, other surveys revealed the potentiality and impact of a pandemic were virtually ignored.

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Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

Before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, the U.S. We even saw two weeks in the height of the pandemic reach 75 new job postings. Organizations are struggling more than ever before in sourcing and attracting top talent to address their resiliency needs. Top Insights from the 2021 BC Compensation Report.

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Castellan

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are among the many topics dominating news stories, especially since the outbreak of the pandemic two years ago. This, at its heart, is cyber resilience—a critical, but often-overlooked component of resilience management. That’s why cyber resilience is so important. Cyber Resilience Capabilities. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 13, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Home Alone: When Disasters Affect Staff Who Are Working Remotely A Stopgap Measure That Became a Permanent Fixture When the hybrid workplace model first emerged at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was seen as an emergency solution to a crisis situation.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Roll with the Changes: A New Generation Requires a New Approach to BCM It is comforting to think that if we master one set of marketable skills, we’ll be able to make a living from them for the rest of our careers; however, recent history shows that option is no longer available (if it ever was).

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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. BCM consultancy websites. However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why crisis management training is essential for resiliency and explain how to obtain quality training that is relevant to your organization. Small and midsize companies (say those of 50 employees or fewer) can often get away with bringing in a consultant for a few hours of targeted training.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 2, 2023

Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data by Pure Storage Blog Medical research dominated headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, replication happened on a timed basis, posing a risk for both resilience and for data recovery if something went wrong. But this wasn’t possible on the existing hard disk arrays.

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Castellan

AUGUST 31, 2022

Cyber Resilience. Cyber resilience was a key point of conversation in episode seven with Jim Kastle , chief information security officer of Kimberly-Clark. We have always been concerned about it, but with the pandemic happening we certainly, like everyone else, [saw] kind of a surge of attempts of fraud and cybersecurity.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Exercise Smarter: Include 3rd Party Experts In Your Cyber Exercises.”

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KingsBridge BCP

MAY 12, 2023

S2E5 - Rethinking Resilience Roswitha has Mark Armour back to discuss resilience; the language, how we describe it, our perception and how to incorporate it into your BCP efforts. S1E4 - Software or Consultants for building your BCP. S1E10 - Business Resilience. S2E4 - BCP and Operational Risk Management.

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Recovery Diva

MAY 12, 2022

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Emerald Publishing Ltd.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Day two of BCAW and Senior Consultant, Gavin Watt, explores what organisations can do to attempt to protect themselves from supply chain risks. Supplier bankruptcy, trade disputes, political instability, pandemics, natural disasters and cyber-attacks are all seen to be key factors in supply chain disruption.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Nobody still really knows what resilience that we all want and need actually is, and there is still no defined agreement on how to implement it. Continuity Shop were not there nor were there any consultancies like PlanB Consulting. Business continuity is booming in Germany and doubled in volume during and after the pandemic.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Exercise Smarter: Include 3rd Party Experts In Your Cyber Exercises.”

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Castellan

JUNE 15, 2021

The latest report takes an in-depth look at some of the top trends we’re seeing across the business continuity industry today, including the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on response and recovery planning. BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The past twenty-five years have seen a lot of changes in the world especially as pertains to business. Two or three decades ago, few people worried about the resiliency of their supply chains.

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PagerDuty

MAY 14, 2024

Through teleconsultations, Intelehealth has facilitated an impressive 3 million consultations this year, marking a significant milestone in bridging healthcare gaps and extending vital services to underserved populations.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The business continuity manager’s time would be better spent preparing for the next incident and making sure that the routine elements of their response is managed, rather than spending all their time on the ongoing management of the pandemic response. The initial reaction to the pandemic was a classic business continuity response.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The business continuity manager’s time would be better spent preparing for the next incident and making sure that the routine elements of their response is managed, rather than spending all their time on the ongoing management of the pandemic response. The initial reaction to the pandemic was a classic business continuity response.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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