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Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake

Posted on 2010-01-13 by

The recent earthquake in Haiti is a poignant reminder of how vulnerable a country is when it is facing disaster on a grand scale.

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Tags: business continuity, disaster recovery, economic resilience, emergency preparedness, resilience

If the UK goes cold, blame me

Posted on 2010-01-11 by

The BBC reports that National Grid has issued its latest “balancing alert” on gas supplies. Unusually cold weather has hit big Norwegian gas field Ormen Lange and the Nyhamna gas processing centre, hitting North Sea gas flows from Norway at a time of increased consumption.

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Tags: business continuity, critical infrastructure, supply chain disruption

SME: A supply chain risk?

Posted on 2010-01-05 by

Does having Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in your supply chain constitute an increased exposure to supply chain risk?

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Tags: business continuity, Finch Peter, research blogging, SME, supply chain risk, virtual enterprise

Happy Holidelays!

Posted on 2009-12-22 by

We rarely see news flashes of truck drivers stuck in snow, or perishable goods that has to be scrapped. That is not news that sells. What does sell are passengers and people, but should they really count so much?

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Tags: airport shut-down, business continuity, crisis management, emergency preparedness, supply chain disruption, transportation disruption

Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management

Posted on 2009-12-21 by

The closure of SAAB is a major crisis by all standards, and is a fitting reminder that this 10-year old book will never go put of date. Why and how do some companies survive, and some not? This book sheds some light on this. Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with them?

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Tags: business continuity, business continuity books, crisis management, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, harvard business review

SAAB no more…

Posted on 2009-12-19 by

What do you when your major customer goes bust? How do you cope with finding a new business partner? How do you react when a major competitor is no more? SAAB is history. What will happen to its supply chain?

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Tags: business continuity, risk management, supplier relationships, supply chain risk

Critical: Beer Distribution

Posted on 2009-11-06 by

Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a supply chain disruption…in the UK. You could even say that beer distribution is part of the UK critical infrastructure.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: business continuity, critical infrastructure, McKinnon Alan, research blogging, supply chain risk, transport vulnerability, vulnerability

Catastrophic events in supply chains

Posted on 2009-08-24 by

Finding the right facility location is difficult enough. Keeping it safe is even more difficult. One of the building bricks of the this article is the identification of so-called key supply chain locations.

Hard Drive Recovery and Business Continuity

Posted on 2009-07-19 by

Do you regularly back up vital business information? Not? Well, maybe hard drive repair or hard drive recovery may save the day for you. DTIData is one of many specialists in hard drive recovery and hard drive repair.

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Tags: business continuity, data backup, data recovery, disaster recovery, hard drive recovery, hard drive repair

BBC World Debate: Disasters – Prepare or React?

Posted on 2009-07-04 by

Should we actually bother to spend time and money on disaster mitigation, or should we rather focus on preparing for disaster recovery? Is re-active better than pro-active? To what extent can we really reduce the dangers from future disasters? Does investing in prevention divert funds from rescue efforts when disasters do occur?

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Tags: bbc world debate, business continuity, disaster recovery, preparedness, risk, vulnerability

Resilience revisited

Posted on 2009-06-18 by

How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matrixes have a likelihood/impact approach, but not always. Yesterday, I was examining a criticality/vulnerability matrix.

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Tags: business continuity, critical infrastructure, criticality, Dalziell Erica, disaster recovery, preparedness, research blogging, resilient organisations, Seville Erica, susceptibility, vulnerability

Are roads more important than computers?

Posted on 2009-06-16 by

The objective of the first project ‘Protection of Society’ (POS) or ‘Beskyttelse av Samfunnet’ (BAS, in Norwegian) was to describe how modern society will react to and can protect itself when facing modern warfare. In doing so, the report identified key components and functions that are essential to a modern society, and interdependencies between them.

Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain

Posted on 2009-05-25 by

This book is clear and concise, to the point, and constantly switching between risk management in general, supply chain risk, and business continuity, always seeing the whole picture

Posted in BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Tags: bcm handbook, business continuity, business continuity books, Kaye David, resilience, supply chain books, supply chain resilience, supply chain risk, vulnerability

Supply Chain Risk Management – as seen from Space

Posted on 2009-05-19 by

Is it possible to reconcile supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management with corporate governance, business continuity, national security and emergency planning?

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Tags: business continuity, emergency management, Peck Helen, research blogging, supply chain risk, supply chain security, supply chain vulnerability

Agile Business Continuity

Posted on 2009-05-16 by

The other day I came across a new term: Agile Business Continuity, on the blog of Paul James, agilecontinuity.org. It is a blog that is well worth reading and I think that the word agile really captures the essence of what business continuity management (BCM) is about in the first place.

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Tags: agile, agility, business continuity, business continuity blogs, flexibility, flexible, supply chain agility

A Decade of Living Dangerously

Posted on 2009-03-27 by

The report not only shows how many managers are aware of a specific Business Continuity Plan (BCP) covering critical business activities in their organization, but also tracks which of the risks identified are of particular concern to managers.

Posted in REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Tags: business continuity, risk, risk analysis, risk management

The 2009 Nordic Business Continuity Symposium

Posted on 2009-03-21 by

I guess this will be THE gathering of who’s who in the Nordic Business Continuity commuity, and I wish I could be there, listen to the speakers, exchange ideas and simply, be inspired.

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Tags: business continuity, conference

Risky Thinking

Posted on 2009-03-20 by

Michael Z Bell is a Business Continuity consultant, based in Ottawa, Canada, and his business website (and blog) presents current information and opinions on business continuity, disaster recovery, risk assessment, and business impact analysis.

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Tags: Bell Michael Z, business continuity, business continuity blogs, disaster recovery, risk management, risky thinking

The Business Continuity Institute

Posted on 2009-03-18 by

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity practitioners. I came across this website while searching for this book on Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain.

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Tags: business continuity, business continuity networks

Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers

Posted on 2009-03-01 by

The financial crisis has created an supply chain crisis, says The Economist. What used to be a banking crisis is now a manufacturing crisis and may soon be a supplier crisis.

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Tags: business continuity, economic recession, supply chain disruption, supply chain risk

Blog Archives

Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake

If the UK goes cold, blame me

SME: A supply chain risk?

Happy Holidelays!

Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management

SAAB no more…

Critical: Beer Distribution

Catastrophic events in supply chains

Hard Drive Recovery and Business Continuity

BBC World Debate: Disasters – Prepare or React?

Resilience revisited

Are roads more important than computers?

Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Risk Management – as seen from Space

Agile Business Continuity

A Decade of Living Dangerously

The 2009 Nordic Business Continuity Symposium

Risky Thinking

The Business Continuity Institute

Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers

ARTICLES and PAPERS

Sustainable supply chains

Transportation - the forgotten staple

BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Book Review: Your Research Project

The Resilient Organization

REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS

Supply Chain Security

The UK Transport Network Resilience...and I

from HERE and THERE

Supply chain disruptions by pirates

Transportation reliability and vulnerability

ARTICLES

Cry Wolf?

BOOKS

Appetite versus Attitude

REPORTS

28 Global Risks in 2015