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Fool if you think it’s over

Oct 06 2015

Two items caught my eye in the news this week. The first was US and Scottish prosecutors have asked Libyan...

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Keep calm it is only a drill

Oct 06 2015

This week I was involved in an exercise which started with a practice fire evacuation. For most of us a...

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Paints a 1000 words

Sep 01 2015

A single photograph taken during an incident can come to define the incident. The picture of Aylan Kurdi lying dead...

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The Business Continuity Manager 2017

Sep 01 2015

This week we thought we would publish a paper that Charlie wrote in 2013, about Business Continuity managers in 2017....

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Thoughts on the Death of a Lion

Aug 04 2015

I feel that we can’t let this week’s bulletin go by without commenting on the death of Cecil the lion,...

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Beware Red Kites and Lions

Aug 01 2015

This morning I was listening to an interview on Radio Scotland, and a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...

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7/7 Lessons revisited

Jul 07 2015

I thought this week with the 10th anniversary of 7/7 I would look back through one of the reports on...

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Prevention is better than Cure

Jul 06 2015

Last weekend, the team working on the Philippines project I talked of last week, went off for the weekend to...

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Business Continuity in the Philippines

Jul 01 2015

This week I am working in the Philippines, developing business continuity for a multinational building materials manufacturer. It is my...

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Fatalities planning

Jul 01 2015

For this week’s bulletin I couldn’t leave unmentioned the horrific attack on holidaymakers in Tunisia, just over a week ago....

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The Dangers of Outsourcing​

Jun 16 2015

Thank you very much to all those who voted for me as the ‘BCI Industry Personality of the Year’ and...

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Alton Towers Rollercoaster Crash​

Jun 06 2015

After commenting on so many organisations that get their crisis management wrong, it is refreshing to see an organisation which...

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Breaking up is hard to do

Jun 04 2015

In my bulletin on 20 May 2012 I wrote about the possibility of Grexit (Greece leaving the euro), luckily this...

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The Beautiful Game

May 06 2015

I don’t think I can write this bulletin without commenting on the arrest of the FIFA officials. I can admit...

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Sorry seems to be the hardest word​​

May 06 2015

Occasionally in the news you hear a story and wonder how the organisation can get it so wrong when the...

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Why Do Incidents Occur?

May 06 2015

Yesterday there was some good news from the Nepal earthquake in that two people were pulled out alive from the...

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Business Continuity within Manufacturing

May 06 2015

Yesterday myself and Kim, fellow BC professional and wife, spent the day touring a cement plant. We did the whole...

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Does Business Continuity really manage the real risks to your organisation?

Apr 01 2015

This week I noticed that there have been large power outages in Holland effecting Schiphol Airport and also it seems,...

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Fire in the Hole

Apr 01 2015

‘Fire in the hole’ is a warning that an explosive detonation in a confined space is imminent. It originated with...

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Beware the creeping crisis

Apr 01 2015

The horrific situation we have seen as headline news over the last week is that of hundreds of migrants being...

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Making Command Post Exercises as realistic as possible

Mar 07 2015

This week I have been looking at the news and there was nothing which inspired me to write in my...

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Recovering Business Reputation after a Scandal

Mar 06 2015

I thought this week I would comment on an item in the news. The lead item in this lunchtime’s news...

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A threat from within

Mar 01 2015

My blog last month was ‘Beware the cuckoo in the nest!’ which talked about the danger of insider threat. On...

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Beware the Cuckoo in the Nest

Mar 01 2015

Last week I attended a conference organised by the Scottish Business Resilience Centre called “The cuckoo in the nest: Scotland’s first insider...

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