March is turning into a big month for anniversaries. We have already blogged about that Salisbury nerve agent poisonings and the Fukushima nuclear disaster and, if we had had time, we could also have recalled the Herald of Free Enterprise (6th March 1987). However, today is the big one, the anniversary of the UK’s first …
So it’s the final day of Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2021: what have we learnt this year? Undoubtedly, BCAW 2021 has been dominated by high-profile ransomware events, with a combination of: Continued fallout from the DarkSide attack on Colonial Pipeline earlier in the month; Ongoing disruption to the Irish Health Service following an attack …
Having read Yossi Sheffi’s wonderful “The Resilient Enterprise” some years ago, I had high hopes for this book. Sadly it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. The book is organised in six sections and, for me, the most useful content is contained in the second (“Living with Uncertainty”) and fourth (“Supply Chains for the …
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“Managing Risk in Extreme Environments: Front-Line Business Lessons for Corporates and Financial Institutions” has been on the bookshelves in our office since it was published in 2008 but, for some reason, I have only just got around to looking through it. Given that The book is 12 years old, and I have not read it …
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Unsurprisingly, the Business Continuity Institute’s latest annual supply chain resilience report is dominated by issues arising from Covid-19. After years where supply chain disruption was dominated by IT and information security incidents; neither of these even feature in the top 5 causes of disruption in 2020, which were: Human illness Loss of talent/skills (#4 in …
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We first blogged about Covid-19 a year ago. That blog post recalled the lack of reliable information upon which to make decisions during the ‘flu pandemic of 2009; and predicted that, once again, this pandemic would be characterised by deep uncertainty. I never suspected when I wrote it that, one year on, we would still …
Sadly, there has been no shortage of stories of businesses struggling with Covid-19 in the last year. However, I was intrigued by the story this week about Frontier Development experiencing delays in the release of their much-anticipated Elite Dangerous Odyssey. One would have imagined that developing video games would be one of the industries that …
Published in 2020 and 2019 respectively, these books are both very timely as we have all had to get to grips with epidemiology. Whilst there are hopeful signs that we may be close to finding a way out of the current Covid-19 pandemic; the threat of future pandemics remains very real. As the name suggests …
There has been much media coverage today of “Exercise Iris”, an exercise delivered to Scottish Health Boards in March 2018 by the Scottish Government’s Health Protection Division. The exercise scenario was based on an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Scotland, and media reporting has focused on why the exercise recommendations were not …
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