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 today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the impacts of extreme weather on our organisations and gives an insight into the importance of planning for climate change. I have returned from two weeks in Aruba, where I was working with my power and water utility client. We carried out a series of training exercises and updated their resilience and emergency
To round off a fantastic BCAW, Consultant Chloe Mclaughlin, explores the topic of organisational resilience. Organisational resilience is vital in today’s rapidly changing and uncertain world. By identifying potential risks, developing plans to mitigate those risk and establishing effective crisis management protocols, organisations can minimise disruption, ensure business continuity and enhance their reputation. Organisations can follow best practices for
Discussing another aspect of Personal Resilience is Consultant Monica Habo. She explain how Self-Care influences business Continuity Although the post-Covid world is our new normal, working practices are a long way away from what they used to be. For the majority of people, working 9-5 meant working 5 days a week from the office, no question. However, in this
Senior Consultant Simon Freeston, breaks down personal resilience before, during and after an incident. During this week so far, we have talked about resilience in several different forms from supply chain resilience to cyber resilience. One of the most important, and in my opinion sometimes overlooked, forms of resilience is personal resilience. Personal resilience focuses on an individual’s
We are half way through BCAW and consultant Carly Clements presents her views on operational resilience. In today’s ever-changing and developing world that we are living in, Operational Resilience has never been more important than it is now. Operational resilience has been an active area of focus especially after the Covid-19 pandemic hit. In order for organisations to
This week’s bulletin has been provided by Gavin Watt (AMBCI) who gives some insight into the current need for business continuity in our organisations and how business continuity can be operationalised. Over the past couple of days, I have been thinking about the past few exercises with clients I have conducted, training sessions I have delivered, and a
As it is BCI Education Month, this week Charlie discusses the need for embedding business continuity to create a more resilient future, using examples of scenarios that are happening right now across the world. ‘Embedding Business Continuity for a more Resilient Future’ was a title given to us for BCI Education Month and I promised Kitt in the
This week I talk about writing incident scenarios and how different business continuity plans have come back in style. The return of the mullet What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Flared trousers seem to come and go quite regularly. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing
What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. This week a couple of things have come together to inspire this bulletin. I have been working on an operational resilience exercise for a client, which is based around taking a ‘severe but plausible scenario’ and then checking whether the scenario breaches the organisation’s impact tolerances.