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Image sourced from BBC – Reuters Copyright A conversation about Organisational Resilience With the Collins dictionary declaring...

We are living in an increasingly risky world. Amongst the big risks are Conflict, Climate change, Covid, Cyber, Cost of Living and Civil...

A hugely common mistake when developing a business continuity programme is to start with the Business Impact Analysis / Risk Assessment.

With the insurance market now described as “Harsh” by industry association AIRMIC there is a perfect storm now of rising premiums and...

In November 2001 I flew into Bagram airport in a battered old Iluyshin Il-76, part of the Department of International Development’s team...

This week is business continuity awareness week with lots of resources being made available through the Business Continuity Institute to...

The BSI have recently released the results of their organisational resilience survey, the first since COVID. This provides an early snap...

The first COVID vaccine is approved. Firstly this is fantastic and welcome news – a triumph of global cooperation and focused scientific...

In the last few weeks as the world continues to focus on COVID 19 response and prepares for a second wave, attention has also been...

With changed team dynamics and hugely different ways of working.. is the solution e-learning? Some of the issues include: - Staff have...

What’s the right timing for an After-Action Review or incident debrief? Most organisations are still responding to the impacts of the...

With the latest BCI report showing that only a quarter of businesses expect to go back to their old business model, it is clear that new...

The WHO have called this pandemic an ‘infodemic’ for good reason. It is also a crisis of trust. The first task with any new incident or...

The art of near miss management! Let’s face it, many organisations have had pandemic in the top right hand quadrant of their risk...

WHO Executive Director Dr Michael J Ryan got it absolutely right when he said “Perfection is the enemy of the good when it comes to...