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Business Continuity Planning for the Retail Industry

everbridge

Enduring the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a unique opportunity for businesses in the retail industry to reshape how they operate. Utility outages. When a critical event occurs, the responsibility of response may land on anyone from a local facility manager to the CSO. Business Continuity in the Retail Industry. Employees.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. I learned so much from mine when I was starting out, especially in terms of doing mock disaster exercises and crisis management. Other BCM professionals.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Recent heavy rainfall in Rhode Island, Georgia, and Indiana caused deadly flash floods and thousands of power outages. According to the National Hurricane Center, four systems are currently forming in the Atlantic: Hurricane Earl, expected to impact Bermuda in the coming days, Hurricane Danielle, and two tropical waves.

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A Historic Year for Enterprise Resilience

everbridge

The year 2021 represented another historic period of resilience, during which businesses began to spring back from the pandemic lockdowns of 2020.

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5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know

Online Computers

The attack also caused the COVID-19 vaccine portal to go offline and induced IT outages at five major hospitals, including Children’s Health Ireland. For instance, the city had to spend $3 million on emergency IT and crisis management intervention alone. Our experts at Online Computers can help you devise your own.

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National Preparedness Month Highlights the Move from “If” to “When” in Preparedness Planning

Castellan

According to the 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report , there are the top five events that led to business continuity response and recovery plan initiation in 2020: Pandemic/disease: 79% Power outages: 49% Hurricanes: 38% Fire/wildfires: 35% Cyber-attacks: 29%.

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Five Key Takeaways from the 2021 Business Continuity Event Impact Management Report

Castellan

BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. While business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience teams tackled the pandemic and other business disruptors throughout the year, many did so with small teams.