In 2012, Continuity Insights published its first report into the use of social media as a crisis communications tool. This year, Continuity Insights dug a little deeper in an effort to learn more about the industry’s social media strategies, how respondents view the risks associated with social media, and whether sentiment towards social media’s effectiveness has changed.

Continue reading Ignoring Social Media Is No Longer An Option

Tags: Business Continuity, Business Continuity Management, crisis communication, crisis management, social media

The British weather – in particular heavy snow – continued to catch UK businesses by surprise in 2012, according to new research released by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Bad weather is revealed as the top cause of disruption to UK businesses over the last 12 months, with as many as 77 per cent of organisations affected by this winter’s snow. Continue reading UK Businesses count the cost of cold snap chaos

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Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, released its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which aggregates and analyzes the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during 2012.

Continue reading Aon Benfield Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report: 2012

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A new survey published by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) in association with BSI has revealed that 65% of organizations are extremely concerned or concerned about a cyber attack in 2013.

Continue reading 65% of firms fear a cyber attack in 2013 according to BCI research

Tags: bci, bsi, cyber attack, cyber security, Horizon Scan Survey Report, social media, supply chain disruption

During November and December 2012 Continuity Central conducted a survey to determine what changes and challenges we can expect to see in the business continuity profession during 2013.

Continue reading Business continuity in 2013: survey results

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During a year of well-documented IT failures, new research from LANDesk Software reveals just how prepared the IT industry is for the next disaster.

Continue reading Over 80% of service desks have disaster recovery plans in place – yet only half know how to implement them

Tags: Disaster Recovery, IT failure, LANDesk, service desk, Service Desk Institute, survey

Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal have teamed up to launch a study examining the state of business and technology resiliency.

Continue reading The 6th Annual Forrester & Disaster Recovery Journal Survey

Tags: Business Continuity, crisis communication, DRJ, enterprise risk management, Forrester, survey

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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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

The remarkable nature of Japan’s response to the earthquake and tsunami that struck just over a year ago made a deep impression on people the world over, as have the more recent pictures of the clean-up and efforts to regenerate the affected areas.

For businesses, however, the disaster served as a reminder that risk management goes beyond regular day-to-day business. In a new survey by AT&T, results show that the business community in Japan is increasingly planning for unexpected events, seismic or not, that could disrupt or even shut down their operations. And as they enter the new financial year the survey shows that IT executives view business continuity planning and cloud computing investment as major priorities.

Continue reading AT&T Survey Reveals Japanese Businesses Cite Business Continuity and Cloud Computing as Their Priorities in 2012 IT Planning

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Public relations firm Weber Shandwick and its research arm, KRC Research, conducted an online survey among both consumers and executives to answer the frequently-raised question from corporate officers about how brand and reputation are evolving in this new see-thru, nowhere to hide world. The research aimed to help marketing and communications executives adjust to what we foresee as a tectonic shift in communicating the voice of the “enterprise” to key stakeholders.

Continue reading The company behind the brand: in reputation we trust

Tags: reputation management