The management systems community
16th Apr 2009
The communiqué also seeks to establish and promote greater collaboration between nations to “guard against risk” and “discourage excessive risk-taking” by strengthening regulatory systems and supervision.
1st Apr 2009
“The trend towards globalisation makes business continuity more important,” says Caddick. “Fraud in the US affects UK businesses. Climate change has more of an immediate impact on British companies now they have outsourced many things to China.”
26th Mar 2009
“Business continuity, security and emergency management are all process-driven activities. As such, it makes sense to ensure that those processes are constantly being reviewed and improved. Six Sigma is a process that ought to be considered for these disciplines, as it deals with process improvement.”
27th Feb 2009
A recent research report, comprising of interviews conducted by IBM, with over 1200 chief financial officers from 79 countries, concluded the following points mentioned in the article.
9th Feb 2009
One of the main conclusions from the report suggests that the disaster impact could have been reduced through resilient building design and the deployment of an early warning system complemented with good community preparedness.
28th Jan 2009
Business Insurance Europe has conducted a panel interview comprising of insurance and risk management executives on the impact of the credit crunch upon businesses.
Short-term needs for credit to fulfil operational obligations have been identified as being much greater than ever to ensure future sustainability of businesses
27th Jan 2009
In the event of a business disruption, Business Continuity Management (BCM) helps you to identify and prepare for critical business operations. This may be more important for organisations with global complex supply chains or where there is a single-point of dependency from either the supplier or customer side.
6th Jan 2009
The London Resilience Team has compiled a useful resource of to-do lists for emergencies, staff contact trees, what to include in your ‘battle box’ and much more.
Take a look at the documents below for templates and advice for creating an effective business continuity plan… click on the links
5th Dec 2008
This UK Cabinet Office guidance document written by the department of Energy and Climate Change is intended to assist organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors in planning for and managing the consequences of a disruption to fuel supplies.
4th Dec 2008
Business Continuity Management (BCM) helps to identify critical parts of an organisation that cannot be disrupted such as data, inventory, assets, employees and plans how to maintain these, in the likelihhod of incurring an incident
An appropriate response and business continuity plan can assist in enabling an enterprise to get back to business as quickly as possible.
The benefits of deploying an affective BCM plan efficiently can help in protecting brand reputation, avoid losing valuable market share to the competition and maintain customer confidence.
This toolkit developed by the UK Government guides you through the steps you will need to take to implement BCM in your organisation. It covers the six elements of the BCM lifecycle as defined in the Business Continuity
Management Standard (BS25999).
LRQA’s Business Assurance helps you manage your systems and risks to improve and protect the current and future performance of your organisation.
The Business Assurance approach uses a consistent methodology for providing business driven assessments based around the organisation’s most significant risks.
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