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Armageddon avoided
Dec 01 2015
As we have seen from photographs there has been another huge rainstorm and more flooding in the Carlisle area. Invariably...
Je Suis Paris
Nov 07 2015
On the Friday night of the incident, I had the TV on all night and watched with horror as the...
Communication system let me down. Why you need a notification system.
Nov 07 2015
When I was the Business Continuity Manager at Scottish Power one of my roles was to ensure that I could...
The Minimum Business Continuity Objective: The Cinderella of the BIA
Oct 30 2015
he minimum business continuity objective (MBCO) is, in my opinion, an extremely important component of the business impact analysis (BIA)....
Crisis Management Lessons
Oct 15 2015
With the VW response to the emissions scandal still headline news, I thought I would share some lessons I have...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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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