The management systems community
– 14th Oct 2008 by Alex Briggs
Cheryl Vallender at www.disaster-resource.com has gotten a group of the world’s leading Business Continuity experts together to answer the question:
Where does Business Continuity Planning Belong in an Organization?
Cheryl’s article takes us right back to the beginning of Business Continuity through to taking a look at the current trends in global organisations.
– 9th Oct 2008 by Raz Chaudary
According to a Stratus Technologies survey, twenty percent of organizations with business continuity plans have no idea if they will actually work in a crisis because they’ve never tested the plans.
86 percent believe that a business continuity plan is a significant strategic advantage.
76 percent business continuity was a strategic priority for of the companies surveyed,
69 percent follow a business continuity plan;
45 percent test business continuity plans them more than once a year.
35 percent tested yearly
20 percent not at all.
– 6th Oct 2008 by Raz Chaudary
According to Robert J. Keegan,the Chairman and CEO of Goodyear, enacting company’s integrated strategic business continuity plans in advance of the hurricane has minimised business impact and the management process is recognised as a competitive advantage. Goodyear relied on the process to ensure the supply chain maintained the delivery of critical raw materials to all of its’ tyre manufacturing facilities.
– 3rd Oct 2008
As the contamination of Chinese milk sends ripples through the global food industry, Eversheds lawyers Richard Matthews and Elizabeth Hyde lay out the due diligence procedures that food companies must go through when sourcing from outside the EU
– 2nd Oct 2008 by Raz Chaudary
Reseach identifies the top 10 strategic risks for global supply chains and businesses. Are you ready for the highlighted five fastest-rising threats that could also have a significant impact over the next three to five years?
According to Ernst & Young’s report, they highlight regulatory and compliance as the highest risks followed closely by global financial shocks, workforce and consumer aging, and the rise of emerging markets.
– 24th Sep 2008 by Alex Briggs
This Business Week article takes a look at corporations and the role they are playing in helping their local communities and citizens get back on their feet after a natural disaster.
UPS, Accenture and FEMA pooled their resources together to help found the Aidmatrix Foundation, a nonprofit group that uses information technology to ensure donations are quickly dispatched to those in greatest need.
The article also talks a lot about the business continuity lessons learned after Katrina. IBM and their work in Turkey following the 1999 earthquake.
Event: 16th Dec 2008 – 17th Dec 2008
Measuring Your Water Footprint and Identifying Water Usage Hotspots - Both Internally & Across The Supply Chain – To Assess Risks, Reduce Costs & Guarantee Business Continuity.
– 28th Aug 2008
This episode features Professor Richard Wilding talking about the importance of time, transparency and trust in assuring your supply chain.
– 14th Aug 2008 by Alex Briggs
managing-global-supply-chains.pdfmanaging-global-supply-chains.pdf This is the PDF of the McKinsey survey on the growing importance of Supply Chain Risk.
Event: 21st May 2008 – 22nd May 2008
The first IRIS Conference will take place on 21st and 22nd of May in the Crowne Plaza in Brussels, Belgium.
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