We publish weekly updates from the business continuity world, covering recent news items or reflecting on our travels and experiences with clients.
Charlie addresses topics from a Business Continuity perspective and you might be surprised how much of today’s news relates to BC! Providing valuable insight, Charlie raises critical questions which will surely encourage you to reconsider your Business Continuity plans.
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the concept of Maximum Viable Business (MVB) and gives an insight into how this can be implemented in our own organisations. I came across
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses payment diversion fraud and how organisations can protect themselves from fraudsters aiming to access financial transactions. I receive daily emails from The Record which
In his first bulletin of the year, Charlie discusses his business continuity resolutions that he is taking into 2026. In addition to my usual resolutions of going to the gym,
We attended BCI World Hybrid 2025 this week! In today’s bulletin, Charlie shares his experience of the conference and his key takeaways from the event. I came back from BCI
In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses data loss and gives an insight into how hackers may use our personal data. I have been delivering training for two days this week, teaching
In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the difference between live-play exercises and SIMEXs (simulated exercises), and gives an insight into the importance of agreed wording in exercising. I was at the
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the stripped titles of Prince Andrew (now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor), and shares some key lessons that we can apply in our own organisations. Andrew
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie looks at how the AWS outage shows that “it does actually happen” despite all our layers of defence and resilience – a stark reminder of
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie reflects on a recent SIMEX exercise and explores whether traditional tactical teams in incident management might be replaced, or better supported, by smaller, focused work
In this blog – part of a series from PlanB and Databarracks’ business resilience consultants – Gavin Watt explores the value of a SIMEX and the best practices for planning