Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

Before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, the U.S. business continuity industry saw an average of about 20-25 new job postings each week , with about 30-35 on average internationally. new business continuity job postings reached an average of 30-35 per week, with international numbers increasing to 40-45 posts.

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Continuity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2022

It seems as if almost every day, new issues emerge to test the plans and preparedness of business continuity professionals across the world. New, perpetually evolving technology, cyberattacks, natural disasters, pandemics, and a global economy all present new risks. And it’s up to BC pros to prepare for them.

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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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Continuity Planning Pandemic Business Continuity BCP 52

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I think in a number of areas, business continuity (BC) was lacking when it came to responding to COVID and some may start to question the validity of BC. The areas I feel business continuity has been found wanting are as follows: 1. If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared?

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

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. When the possibility of a pandemic was identified, organisations sprang into action and started to prepare.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

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. When the possibility of a pandemic was identified, organisations sprang into action and started to prepare.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Pandemic Logistics Communications 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 30, 2022

This week, I have been in Riyadh delivering a series of workshops, exercises, and business continuity reviews. I have been to the country many times before COVID however, this was my first time since the pandemic. Therefore, I will be sharing some thoughts on what I have learned.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Banking Tourism Audit 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 30, 2022

This week, I have been in Riyadh delivering a series of workshops, exercises, and business continuity reviews. I have been to the country many times before COVID however, this was my first time since the pandemic. Therefore, I will be sharing some thoughts on what I have learned.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Banking Tourism Audit 52

Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Business continuity professionals need to focus on strategic communication and how corporations take responsibility for their actions. A lot has shifted since the start of the pandemic and corporations need to think deeply not only about how they want to shape the new world we are in, but how their actions reflect on their reputations.

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Strategic Communications Disaster Recovery Sports 36

Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Business continuity professionals need to focus on strategic communication and how corporations take responsibility for their actions. A lot has shifted since the start of the pandemic and corporations need to think deeply not only about how they want to shape the new world we are in, but how their actions reflect on their reputations.

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Strategic Communications Disaster Recovery Sports 36

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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

MAY 30, 2022

This week, I have been in Riyadh delivering a series of workshops, exercises, and business continuity reviews. I have been to the country many times before COVID however, this was my first time since the pandemic. Therefore, I will be sharing some thoughts on what I have learned.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Banking Tourism Audit 40

MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. The pandemic underscored the fact that events taking place 10,000 miles away can impact us with great severity in a very short time. Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. Business as usual. Every crisis I’ve faced has been different,” Knafo explains. “In The COVID Connection.

Pandemic 52

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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. A lot has shifted since the start of the pandemic and corporations need to think deeply not only about how they want to shape the new world we are in, but how their actions reflect on their reputations.

Strategic 28

Strategic Communications Disaster Recovery Sports 28

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

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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Pandemic Banking Travel Insurance 52

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

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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Continuity Professionals Pandemic Business Continuity Crisis Management 52

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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Continuity Professionals Pandemic Business Continuity Crisis Management 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

Most of the plans and documents they are using are ones left over from the last pandemic. I always say that our role as business continuity professionals is to horizon scan and look out for new risks, but many of us, including the government, didn’t identify and prepare for this new threat.

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Business Continuity Pandemic Evaluation Activation 40

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

Most of the plans and documents they are using are ones left over from the last pandemic. I always say that our role as business continuity professionals is to horizon scan and look out for new risks, but many of us, including the government, didn’t identify and prepare for this new threat.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Pandemic Evaluation Activation 40

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.

Continuity Professionals 40

Continuity Professionals Business Continuity Pandemic Publishing 40

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.

Media 52

Media Continuity Professionals Management Strategic 52

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.

Media 52

Media Continuity Professionals Management Pandemic 52

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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Media Continuity Professionals Management Business Continuity 40

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You know the type of thing I mean: economic uncertainty, supply chain woes, global conflict, extreme weather, pandemic, cyberattacks, and all the rest. 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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BCM Business Continuity Consulting Impact Analysis 52

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. Related on MHA Consulting: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management The government recently announced the official end of the COVID pandemic. Another pandemic could occur.

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Risk Management Mitigation Pandemic Strategic 82

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

The issue for some companies is that the business continuity plan may contain sensitive and personal information or recovery details, which they may not want to share outside the organisation. We have recovery plans for specific incident scenarios, such as loss of premises, loss of IT and a pandemic.

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Continuity Planning Business Continuity Consulting Audit 52

Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2019

The issue for some companies is that the business continuity plan may contain sensitive and personal information or recovery details, which they may not want to share outside the organisation. We have recovery plans for specific incident scenarios, such as loss of premises, loss of IT and a pandemic.

Continuity Planning 52

Continuity Planning Business Continuity Consulting Audit 52

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. I think we need to pay more attention to the risks outlined document, as most people ignored the risk with the highest likelihood and impact, a Global Pandemic!

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Vulnerability Internet Malware Emergency Planning 40

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. I think we need to pay more attention to the risks outlined document, as most people ignored the risk with the highest likelihood and impact, a Global Pandemic!

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Vulnerability Internet Business Continuity Malware 40

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

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. We are faced with many risks that can disrupt our livelihood and can jeopardize our existence.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis Disaster Recovery 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

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. We are faced with many risks that can disrupt our livelihood and can jeopardize our existence.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis BCP 52