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‘Fire and Fury’ – What’s Next?
Aug 11 2017
This week Charlie looks at the North Korean stand-off, with nuclear confrontation seeming more real than ever, but still far...
WAR! What is it good for?
Aug 04 2017
This week Charlie would like to take the opportunity to receive your thoughts on Work Area Recovery (WAR). am interested in...
What is a playbook and do you need one?
Jul 28 2017
As the use of ‘playbooks’ is becoming increasingly popular, Charlie provides his thoughts on how they can be effectively used...
Building Crisis and Incident Management Teams Webinar
Jul 21 2017
A massive thank you to James McAlister for taking time out of his busy schedule to deliver this month’s webinar on Building...
‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’ by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour – A Review and Critique
Jul 14 2017
Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. In this bulletin,...
Revamping the Business Continuity Profession: A Response
Jul 07 2017
Recently, Charlie wrote a series of bulletins about the business continuity profession and the future it holds. Here, David Lindstedt and Mark Armour, developers...
Tables Turned – Managing a Reputation Incident
Jun 30 2017
This week Charlie discusses reputation management, in response to the negative reaction he received for his bulletin titled ‘The Grenfell Fire Fallout…’. As a consultant,...
Business Continuity – A Triumph of Hope Over Experience
Jun 23 2017
This week’s bulletin has been written by guest author, and BC Training tutor James Royds. How often do you hear the...
The Grenfell Fire Fallout…
Jun 16 2017
This week Charlie shares some thoughts on how organisations should react if they are caught up, blamed, or implicated in...
Recent Terrorist Attacks – Practice Makes Perfect
Jun 09 2017
This week Charlie looks at the response to the recent terror attacks and discusses the importance of exercising plans for these...
The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View
Jun 02 2017
This week Charlie discusses the recent British Airways IT disaster and how the incident was handled by the organisation. The...
Business Continuity Management Exercises Webinar
May 26 2017
A big thank you to Ewan Donald for delivering our ‘Ask The Expert’ webinar on BCM Exercises today. Next webinar: Friday 30th...
Response to the Manchester Attack
May 26 2017
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the devastating attack that took place in Manchester on Monday night. I am not sure...
Some thoughts on the WannaCry Ransomware Attack
May 19 2017
The WannaCry ransomware attack occurred last weekend and caused major disruption to the NHS, and subsequently, many other organisations. Charlie provides his...
Why Resilience? Why Now?
May 12 2017
This week’s bulletin has been written by guest author, and BC Training tutor James Royds. Many organisations have tried to define resilience....
Defining the Competency Requirements for Incident Teams
May 05 2017
This week Charlie looks at the performance of incident management teams and how incident team members can be assessed using competencies. You get...
Business Impact Analysis Webinar
Apr 28 2017
A big thank you to Charlie Maclean-Bristol for delivering the first of our ‘Ask The Expert’ webinars on Business Impact Analysis (BIA)...
United Airlines Incident – Some different thoughts!
Apr 21 2017
This week Charlie looks at how United Airlines handled their recent scandal and whether PR disasters have a long-term effect on the organisations involved. ...
Football attacks – are we ready?
Apr 13 2017
This week Charlie looks at attacks at sporting events and wonders whether football, and managers of other sports venues, are ready...
Business Continuity – The Future?
Apr 07 2017
Following his recent bulletins about whether business continuity is in decline and why resilience is not the solution, this week Charlie looks...
Why resilience is not the saviour of Business Continuity
Mar 31 2017
Following his recent bulletin on why he thinks the business continuity profession is in decline, Charlie looks at why he does not...
How a Business Continuity manager should respond on hearing about the London terrorist attack
Mar 24 2017
Following the terrorist attack in London, Charlie considers the actions that business continuity managers should take when dealing with similar incidents....
Is the business continuity profession in decline?
Mar 17 2017
This week Charlie looks at why he believes the business continuity profession is in decline. In my opinion, business continuity has...
ISO 22301 and the Business Continuity Octopus
Mar 10 2017
This week’s bulletin has been written by guest author, and consultant at PlanB Consulting, Gordon Brown. Implementing a BCMS which meets...
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