The London Olympics 2012 and Business Continuity plan best practice
Events like the Olympic Games are also opportunities to see BC planning in action, hopefully along the lines of business continuity plan best practice.
Loophole In Business Continuity Planning In The Finance Sector?
Business continuity planning is a hot issue in the finance sector, and understandably so because of the real time nature of much of its activities. It’s not surprising therefore that two of the prominent regulating bodies in the United States, FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.) and NFA (National Futures Association), both define their expectations…
Business Continuity Good Practice Guidelines for 2022?
Yes, you read that correctly – what will business continuity good practice guidelines look like in ten years’ time? Given the evolution of BC planning over the last ten years, what the next ten will hold could be anybody’s guess. Unlike traditional things in life whose worth depends on them staying close to a few…
Business Continuity Management for the Masses
Henry Ford would have appreciated the Wiley publishing company’s approach to business continuity management. In keeping with the rest of its “For Dummies” books, Wiley will (September 2012) be bringing out the “Business Continuity for Dummies” edition, mass-produced BCM in something of a one-size-fits-all approach. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – BCM deserves…
Business Continuity Planning and Vandalism
In articles about business continuity planning, vandalism often makes something of a token appearance as part of a list of potential disasters that include floods, storms, fires, pandemics and terrorism. Like these others, vandalism can cause business interruption as the recent story of an attack on a cable bridge in London showed. The result was…
Business Continuity Plan Best Practice and BCP Standards
Do standards really contribute to business continuity plan best practice? The obvious answer is “yes, of course they do”, and in many cases this is true. However, it is also constructive to dig a little deeper to find out why or how BCP standards can help. For one thing, this means less risk of clinging…