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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.

CrowdStrike – Should Consultants Ambulance-Chase?

In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the recent CrowdStrike outage and discusses the thoughts that other consultants have had on the incident. When I heard about the CrowdStrike incident, I was in the middle of the kingdom of Fife with my daughter picking up her new puppy. Desperate for the latest, I had her going through BBC Sounds

Arrogance: The Undoing of Many Senior Managers – NatWest Thoughts

 In this week’s bulletin, Charlie shares his thoughts on the recent NatWest scandal and discusses how senior managers should handle a crisis. I have been closely following the Coutts, NatWest, and Dame Alison Rose crisis over the last few days, contemplating the lessons we can learn from it. Crisis professionals can teach senior managers how to manage a

Business Continuity Professionals – Is AI Going to Make You Redundant

Charlie discusses the emerging use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and looks at what changes it can make within your organisation and the positives and possible downsides of using AI. I came across an article on AI and business continuity a couple of days ago. The article had a number of links in it, and in a moment, I

Why Operational Resilience Ignores Resilience Professionals

This week, Charlie talks about operational resilience in today’s world and why it is important to become resilient in order to survive. I believe right now there has never been a more important time for organisations to be resilient. The certainties of the last 10 years are shifting like sand under us. Interest rates are going up which

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