More than 500 global professionals weighed in on an annual survey culminating in the DRI Trends Report for 2023. The 2024 Predictions Report is a follow-up report that extrapolates the findings into a set [...]
Back in 2015, there were many consultancy and insurance reports which looked at global business risks and made predictions for the year ahead. Although these had value, none of them specifically utilized the experience [...]
Earlier this year I discussed, on the Risk and Resilience Hub, the emergence of Covid-19 and the affects it might have on the resilience profession. I had hoped to have seen the worst of this [...]
Business continuity home-working techniques developed originally for use in disaster recovery have rapidly become a mainstream business model in a global crisis. This is the first blog (of a 3-part series) that I have produced [...]
I am writing this blog while rain pours down outside of my office, much as it has done for much of the past 3 months in the United Kingdom. Many parts of the country are [...]
For many years the practice of Business Continuity (BC) was reasonably straight-forward, if often misunderstood. To most corporate employees, it was viewed as what we do when things go badly wrong with IT or premises. [...]
Risks such as natural disasters, terrorism, industrial incidents and pandemics dominated our concerns in the past. Although they are still important, the main focus for resilience professionals is moving towards technology disruption and risks emerging [...]
“How will they ever recover from this?” This is a phrase that I am sure we all have uttered many times while watching the scenes of destruction graphically played out on our television screens. We [...]
On August 9th 2019, the United Kingdom was badly affected by what has been claimed to be an unprecedented power failure. Many cities were left without electricity, causing major service disruption to hospitals, airports, rail [...]
When we think about Enterprise Resilience we generally think about the things that can go wrong and which might harm an organization’s viability or even make it fail completely. In my last blog I made [...]
IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) is about 40 years old and its younger sibling Business Continuity (BC) has passed the 30-year mark. The premise for ITDR was that we needed to be capable of dealing with [...]
Supply Chain Risk The exact nature of Organizational Resilience and how it differs from traditional Business Continuity has generated much heated debate and very few definite conclusions over the past five years. One concept most [...]