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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

One only hopes that land-use planning will stem the flood of new construction in areas that are prone to inundation by rivers that burst their banks and seas that rise up and surge inland, eating away at properties and coastal defences as they go. To illustrate that, consider just one of the 102 provisions and 29 schedules.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name.