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How Supply Chain Diversification Can Strengthen Your Operational Resilience
Explore key challenges, benefits, and best practices for supply chain diversification.
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Business Continuity Conferences in 2024
Discover business continuity conferences and events to attend to keep you at the forefront of practices and trends in business continuity and risk management.
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5 Benefits of Business Continuity in the Cloud
Our guide explores why the combination of business continuity and cloud computing is a strategic choice yielding multifaceted advantages.
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Creating a Business Continuity Plan
Navigate disruptions with a solid plan! Learn key steps and considerations for creating a robust business continuity plan from our experts. Find out more now!
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Key Components of a Business Continuity Plan
Explore the key components of a robust business continuity plan so you can successfully prepare for any threats and effectively protect your business.
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Business Continuity Exercises & 6 Scenarios
Our guide outlines how your company can develop a strong business continuity plan and be prepared for anything.
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10 Best Practices for Effective Business Continuity Strategy
Learn how to build an effective business continuity strategy that ensures your business can continue its critical functions during and after a disaster.
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Business Continuity Plan Consulting
Learn why hiring industry experts to develop, execute, and maintain your company’s disaster response plan can save you money and boost your business resilience.
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A Guide to ISO 27001 Business Continuity Policy
An ISO 27001 business continuity plan template should include four major components that outline what to do in case of an emergency or serious incident.
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Business Continuity Roles and Responsibilities
The formation of a business continuity team is a strategic step any organisation can take that could significantly enhance the effectiveness of their business continuity plan.
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Key Differences Between Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery
Business continuity and disaster recovery are closely related yet different concepts. Here's how they serve different purposes within the framework of organisational resilience.
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BCM Lifecycle: 5 Stages of Business Continuity Lifecycle
Business Continuity Lifecycle is essential to guide the development of your business continuity plan and ensure your operations can withstand even the most disruptive events.
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How to Create a Business Continuity Plan For Small Business (With Examples)
How long can my business afford to be non-operational? This is where business continuity planning for small business comes in to ensure your company can function during a crisis.
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Key Benefits of Business Continuity Planning
Unlock the advantages of business continuity planning. Discover key benefits of a BCP and why your organisation needs one. Dive into our expert insights now!
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How to Make Business Continuity a Part of Your Organisational Culture
Embedding business continuity into an organisation culture ensures you sustain business-as-usual activities and raise awareness about the value of business resilience.
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Enhancing EPRR in Healthcare Business Continuity Efforts
Incidents are inevitable and their impact on the healthcare industry is significant. Organisations must proactively plan ahead to ensure continuity in the delivery of patient care.
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Business Continuity Incident Examples
As part of business continuity planning, businesses must develop a comprehensive BC plan in order to mitigate risks and remain operational in the face of disruption.
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How to Build and Maintain Cyber Resilience in Financial Services Sector
Since financial institutions play a crucial role in the economy, firms must be at least one step ahead in improving cyber resilience.
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Business Continuity Planning for Remote Work
How do you plan business continuity when you have remote staff? Let take a closer look into the impact of remote working when building a business continuity strategy.
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The Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Business Continuity Management Plan
In this blog, BCM experts draw on years of experience, sharing the most common pitfalls to avoid in your business continuity plan! Have you made them? Read now!
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What is Business Continuity Planning?
Business continuity planning is a critical component of an organisation risk management strategy because it helps a business continue operating even during unplanned events
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Supply Chain Transparency: The Role in Business Continuity Planning
All companies should prioritise complete transparency. Let's dive into the benefits of maintaining a transparent supply chain and how it impacts your business continuity planning.
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Operational Resilience vs Business Continuity
Operational resilience refers to an organizationРІР‚в„ўs ability to maintain its core functions during disruptions while business continuity refers to the company's ability to reco
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What is BCP testing?
Testing the business continuity plan is a must to ensure that the strategy you have in place is the best at managing your perceived risks and threats.
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What is Business Continuity?
Business continuity refers to the planning and preparation required to ensure that your organization can maintain business operations even during times of unexpected crisis.
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Crisis Management Team: Function, Roles & Responsibilities
A guide to helping you build an effective crisis management team who can help you prepare for and overcome and business crises that come your way.
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How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks are on the rise and getting more sophisticated all the time. Here's what you need to know to protect yourself from this particular cyber crime.
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BUSINESS IMPACT ANALYSIS (BIA)
Your Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is an essential part of your Business Continuity and Resilience planning. Here's everything you need to know about it...
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How to Choose the Best Business Continuity Software
Investing in BC software can significantly improve your operational resilience & business continuity management. Here are some key factors to consider when making the decision.
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8 Skills Business Continuity Managers Need to Succeed
Business continuity specialists are sometimes under-appreciated. Their knowledge and skills often prove invaluable assets that every business owner would love to have on board.
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20 Questions to Ask When Prioritizing Your Policy Development Efforts
It is a well-known fact that no business can operate properly without a set of distinct policies in place.
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How to prepare disaster recovery and business continuity plan
When planning a business, many people focus on elements that will provide stability, from finding a competitive advantage to setting up reliable supply chains for their products.
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7 Common Business Continuity Myths
When hearing the phrase "business continuity," many people think about unexpected natural disasters or the need to protect client data.
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Crisis Communications Training Exercises to Implement
Crisis management training is crucial for ensuring the organisation's survival regardless of the industry in which it operates.
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Why You Need to Keep Your BCM Plans Up to Date
Determining critical functions, recognising potential threats, and meeting regulatory requirements are only a few examples of factors firms need to consider during this process.
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How to Plan for the Cost of Unplanned Downtime
According to the report created by the General Electric Company, offshore oil and gas organisations suffer financial losses from unplanned downtime every year.
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Prepare for Planned and Unplanned Downtime
Many organisations are unsure of the best way to handle planned and unplanned downtime. This article discusses the key elements to consider.
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How to Identify Single Point of Failure and Ensure Continuity
Single points of failure can bring your whole system to a standstill, or at best - bring it to "limp mode". If you have ever worked on a car, you know what this means.
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Post-Incident Analysis
In this article, we're going to take a look at the key elements of Post-Incident Analysis, as well as why it is important to carry them out after major disruptions.
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Cascade Effects in Business Continuity Planning
In this article we going to look at one key area that is one of the primary reasons business continuity planning and business impact analysis are so difficult: cascade eff
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Understanding Inherent vs. Residual Risk in Business Continuity
In the uncertain and often fierce world of business and commerce, a single mistake can result in bankruptcy or set a company back years.
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Health & Safety and Business Continuity
For a business to survive during a Business Continuity incident, safety must be a top priority during the recovery process.
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Crisis Response in the Education Sector
Here we take a look at what might cause an educational facility to invoke a Business Continuity Plan and some key elements to consider when doing so.
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Business Impact Analysis vs Risk Assessment: How do They Work Together?
A risk assessment helps identify potential threats, while the BIA helps prioritise which processes are most critical to the business. Both are key components of a BCP.
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How to win organisational engagement in Business Continuity
It is imperative that you embed Business Continuity into your company culture to allow for a successful BCMS. Here are some tips and tricks on how to do that
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Business Continuity in the Transport & Logistics Sector
Whether logistics makes up part of your supply chain, or is your entire business, it is essential you consider Business Continuity Planning.
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Should you be planning for Brexit?
Brexit is likely to affect key business activities, your customers, staff, supply chain and contracts.
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The initiation of BCM: how to obtain management buy-in
What is the best way to go about obtaining buy-in for a BCMS?
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Business Continuity Management in the Finance Sector
Financial firms have a responsibility to add to the overall resilience of the industry.
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3 Stages of an Organisational Crisis
In this blog we will look at how CM relates to Business Continuity Management (BCM)
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Establishing a BCM Policy
What are the main components to create a BCM Policy?
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What Are The Relationships Between Disaster Recovery, Risk Management and Business Continuity?
Running a business comes with challenges, and managing risks is one of them. Disaster recovery, risk management and business continuity are essential to ensure sustainability.
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Business Continuity Management in the Energy Sector
In this article we will investigate the kind of factors which might affect operations within the energy sector.
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Should social media be included within a BCMS?
What part should social media play within a business continuity management system?
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The Development of Business Continuity Management
How has the BCM discipline evolved since its conception?
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What are the main drivers for Business Continuity Management?
Every business will have their own reasons and drivers for implementing business continuity management.
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The Importance of Crisis Communication During a BC Incident
A crisis communication plan consists of a set of procedures and protocols that a business uses as a guide, so you know what to do during crisis situations.
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Business Continuity in the Public Sector
Find out about how business continuity works within the public sector, and how software can improve the process
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How do I get certified to ISO 22301?
Open up new opportunities for your business by certifying to ISO 22301, here's how.
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Are you winter ready?
Winter is fast approaching and here at C2 we want to help you prepare in the best way possible.
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What is Business Continuity Management?
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a key business strategy that proactively prepares organisations and their staff to cope in times of disruption.
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Making Business Continuity Easier With a UX Approach
Need BCM Software that looks great? Easy to use? Simple? Effective? Our Head of Digital talks us through why C2's Meridian BCMS is head and shoulders above our competitors.
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