Author: Tor Fosnaes

ResilientBCM – Keeping the ball in play. Independent research commissioned by BSI has explored business attitudes to organizational resilience. Two thirds (64 percent) of the 120 CEOs from around the world surveyed for the research admit that the concept of organizational resilience is inconsistently understood across their business , despite 70 percent believing it to […]

  ResilientBCM – Keeping the ball in play Mel Gosling explains why he believes that business continuity needs a new way forward, and why the traditional business continuity plan no longer works for today’s organizations. There is a growing body of business continuity practitioners that believe that a new approach to the discipline is both […]

ResilientBCM – Keeping the ball in play. 16 – 20 May 2016 – Business Continuity Awareness Week is an annual global event to demonstrate the value of business continuity and help people understand why they should apply it to their organization. The theme for the week is return on investment.Content retrieved from: http://www.thebci.org/index.php/about/news-room#/events/business-continuity-awareness-week-2016-53635.

ResilientBCM – Keeping the ball in play. US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro and the Rockefeller Foundation have announced the winners of the $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC).  The city of New Orleans won a $141 million grant to create a ‘resilience district.’Content retrieved from: http://www.continuitycentral.com/index.php/news/resilience-news/830-new-orleans-to-build-resilience-district.

ResilientBCM – Keeping the ball in play. AS BC practice evolves and develops more and more serious looks at the practices used are asking for changes to the standard approaches. Continuity 2.0 was the subject of some 2015 posts here. And now this warning: If business continuity continues the cul-de-sac of processes, standards, and regulations, […]

ResilientBCM.com – Keeping the ball in play Well worth the read – these four articles pose serious questions and implications for not practicing sensible business continuity planning. Check the bottom for links to the first three and then read them all.Content retrieved from: http://www.continuitycentral.com/index.php/news/resilience-news/770-santa-s-resilience-planning-part-four.

Six factors that can cause companies to fail have been identified in a new study looking at the collapse of telecom giants WorldCom and Nortel. WorldCom was the largest bankruptcy in US history when it filed in July 2002 with $35 billion of debt, while Nortel Networks was once the powerhouse of the Canadian tech […]

Global study by the Economist Intelligence Unit for BSI finds that 80 percent of business leaders surveyed see resilience as indispensable for long-term growth. A new report released by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on behalf of BSI identifies a worrying gap in the capability of firms to maintain long-term growth. The global study of […]

According to new research only 34 percent of UK businesses could recover in a few minutes if a disaster was to occur. With three quarters (75 percent) of UK IT professionals surveyed predicting threats to their business downtime will increase in 2016, it is worrying that two thirds (66 percent) of businesses are not able […]

<a href=”http://www.resilientbcm.com”>ResilientBCM – Keeping the ball in play.</a> “We expect trustee boards to ensure that they have an adequate business continuity plan and that this is reviewed at least annually, and tested as appropriate. The complexity of this plan will