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UK Businesses count the cost of cold snap chaos

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Written by Phil on April 3, 2013 in Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, survey.

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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More UK businesses than ever planning for the worst according to the Chartered Management Institute

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Written by Phil on March 27, 2012 in Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, survey.

2011 presented a wide range of unexpected threats to the operations of UK organisations, according to research published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

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Managing Threats in a Dangerous World The 2011 Business Continuity Management Survey

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Written by Phil on March 29, 2011 in Business Continuity, Risk Management, survey.

For a second year, extremes of weather have caused widespread disruption amongst survey responders; in particular the cold-snap, with only eight percent of those surveyed saying that it had no effect on their business. This has meant that extreme weather has, for the second year running, been the most persistent disruptive challenge, ahead of IT failure.

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Checklist for Business Continuity Management

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Written by Phil on May 12, 2010 in Business Continuity.

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) CMI has produced a Checklist for BCM as part of its range of Management Checklists on key management issues.

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Disruption & Resilience: The 2010 Business Continuity Management Survey

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Written by Phil on May 12, 2010 in Business Continuity, survey.

Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI’s) 11^th annual survey on business continuity management, based on a survey of 903 managers, tracks how organizations across the United Kingdom dealt with the major disruptions of the last 12 months.

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Disruption & Resilience: The 2010 Business Continuity Management Survey

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Written by Phil on March 25, 2010 in Business Continuity, survey.

The UK-based Chartered Management Institute has published Disruption & Resilience: The 2010 Business Continuity Management Survey.

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Survey: Chartered Management Institute releases BCM 2009 report

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Written by Phil on April 8, 2009 in Business Continuity, Risk Management, survey.

The UK-based Chartered Management Institute has released an important report, A Decade of Living Dangerously: Business Continuity Management Report 2009.

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