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BCAW : Supply Chain : What can organisations do to attempt to protect themselves from supply chain risks?

Plan B Consulting

Supplier bankruptcy, trade disputes, political instability, pandemics, natural disasters and cyber-attacks are all seen to be key factors in supply chain disruption. No fancy analytics, no Artificial Intelligence but good old-fashioned relationship building. Finally, there is the gold fashioned risk assessment.

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How To Prepare For A Strong Recovery From COVID-19

Swan Island Network

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused many to speculate when the infection will peak. Early predictions of a pandemic were ignored, but things will recover, and you need to be ready. Likely you were caught short on the pandemic. You need to work with customers and suppliers in a tightly coordinated fashion. Share on twitter.

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Employee Engagement is Key in COVID-19 Recovery

Risk Management Monitor

Businesses and their employees have had to rapidly adjust to the shutdowns and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and their ability to adapt and pivot will continue to be critical as organizations start to recover from the impacts of the crisis. The pandemic has also brought on feelings of isolation and fear for many.

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What to Expect in Business Continuity Employment for the Last Half of 2021

Castellan

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. Throughout 2021, however, we may see an uptick in new postings we could attribute to the effectiveness of many business continuity programs during the pandemic. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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Business, Interrupted: Creating a Network of Preparedness

Castellan

As organizations of all sizes experience a range of concurrent disruptions, from managing pandemic response to tackling cyber breaches, we’ve now moved into an era where we should no longer wonder if we might experience a disruption but accept that for all of us the new focus should be when.

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A higher standard of ‘duty of care’ for business travel

everbridge

I would say the biggest lesson of the last few years has been that we need to be agile to respond to so-called unexpected events, be it a viral pandemic, global lockdowns, energy shortages, wars, or natural disasters. Could you share some experiences and lessons learned?

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion).