NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...
NEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...
Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...
Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...
NEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...
NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...
Business Survival ™ News Global Disaster AlertRegister now and save $200 off the low registration fee at Fall World 2012. Save your company dollars and be able to get the best training in the industry at the lowest cost.
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It doesn’t take something as dramatic as tornadoes at a car race to spell potential big-event disaster. Even seemingly tame gatherings can offer their share of mayhem, as when more than 100 rowdy fans were arrested and 200 or so more taken into protective custody when country star Kenny Chesney performed at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., in August 2009. Continue reading How to Secure and Prepare for Large Events
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The Business Continuity Institute has launched its 4th annual supply chain resilience survey, a well-regarded and widely referenced study into the nature of supply chain risk and approaches to deal with disruption and build organizational resilience.
Continue reading Business Continuity Institute launches 4th Annual Supply Chain Resilience Survey
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We live in a volatile world full of uncertainty. It’s all about targeted flexibility, the art of being prepared, rather than preparing for specific events. Being able to respond rather than being able to forecast, facilitates the ability to respond to the consequences of an event.
Continue reading Black Swans, volatility and flexibility
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This easy-to-use yet comprehensive package of 1,700+ pages and 50 files of expert, step-by-step instructions and editable templates is just what you’re looking for if you need…
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The BCI’s CPD programme is based on Reflective Learning, which is considered to be best practice in Continuing Education. But what exactly do we mean by Reflective Learning?
Continue reading Reflecting on the BCI Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme
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We live in a volatile world full of uncertainty. It’s all about targeted flexibility, the art of being prepared, rather than preparing for specific events. Being able to respond rather than being able to forecast, facilitates the ability to respond to the consequences of an event.
Continue reading Black Swans, volatility and flexibility
Tags: black swans, risk
Recently, some have said that the ultimate goal for business continuity management (BCM) practitioners is to get “business continuity management activities out from the computer room and into the business and boardroom.” Most likely this is the remnant from a bygone era in business continuity.
Continue reading Focus On The Largest Source Of Risk: The Data Center
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New technology is allowing emergency officials in North Carolina to develop more effective evacuation plans in the case of a hurricane. New evacuation zones have been developed, taking into account new data available about tidal surges when hurricanes hit the coastline.
Continue reading New Technology Changes Approach to Hurricane Evacuations
Tags: hurricanes, natural disasters
DRJ’s Fall World 2012 is approaching fast! Register by July 9 for the lowest price in the industry. The educational training you will receive at Fall World 2012 is worth far more than the registration fee! You want to attend this conference and find ways to improve your organization, your career and your plans.
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Read what Lyndon Bird FBCI, Technical Development Director at the BCI has to say on the subject:
A recent survey undertaken in New Zealand by Massey University revealed that less than 10% of SMEs have a business continuity plan in place despite the fact that over 40% of them have experienced a crisis in the last five years. The survey found a high degree of vulnerability in SMEs across New Zealand and concluded with a recommendation for a national programme to address this gap. But it is not just SMEs in New Zealand that need to consider business continuity planning.
Continue reading Business Continuity Planning – something just for the big global corporates?
Tags: bci, Business Continuity Institute, Massey University, new zealand, SMEs, survey
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