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News As part of Business Continuity Awareness Week Charlie has been asked to give a webinar on - Business Continuity for SMEs The talk will be aimed at small and medium businesses.
Business Continuty Training (BCT) our sister company opens a new office BCT has opened a new office to cope with the company's continued expansion. Visit www.b-c-training.co.uk for more details. PlanB is proud to announce that Kim Maclean-Bristol passed the BSI Lead Auditors Course. PlanB Consulting are now able to offer BS25999 audits to their customers. PlanB Consulting accredited to the BSI's Associate Consultant Programme PlanB Consulting has been given full accreditation by the British Standards Institute as a member of its Associate Consultant Programme (ACP) for BS25999 (Business Continuity Management).
Kim Maclean-Bristol attended the BS25999 Lead Auditors Course In November. BSI's "BS 25999 Lead Auditor" course provides students with the skills and knowledge to conduct and lead effective business continuity management system audits in accordance with the requirements of BS 25999-2:2007 and ISO 19011:2002, "Guidelines for Quality and/or Environmental Management Systems Auditing." The course explains the principles and practices of independent auditing for a business continuity management system and guides students through the entire audit process, from managing an audit program to reporting on audit results. PlanB Consulting is now better equipped to help its clients achieve BS25999 and will be able to undertake independent audits to assess their level of compliance. Charlie and Kim Maclean-Bristol achieve CBCI
First ever BCI 5 day entry level training course is run in Glasgow In June Charlie Maclean-Bristol taught BCI 5 day entry level training course. This was the first time the course had been run in Scotland. The course had a mix of local business continuity practitioners as well as a number who had travelled from England and one from Portugal. At the end of the course all those on the course including Charlie took the BCI Certificate exam. All those on the course passed the exam. Charlie passed with merit! The course was run by Business Continuity Training Ltd where Charlie is the Head of Training. Details of the course can be found here PlanB consulting helps raise £2000 for charity Info and pictures here Runner up Business Continuity Consultant of the Year Always the bridesmaid never the bride... May 09
Article The 10 most common mistakes people make When writing business continuity plans published in ASIS International Newsletter Article here BCI Good Practice Guideline Rewrite - PlanB involved April 2009 Charlie Maclean-Bristol has joined the team involved in the rewrite of the Business Continuity Institute's 'Business Continuity Management Good Practice Guidelines 2008'. He will be working on the Section 2 Understanding the Organisation and Section 4 Developing and Implementing a BCM response. Copy of the guidelines is available from www.thebci.org Charlie Maclean-Bristol shortlisted for 'Consultant of the Year' at the CIR Business Continuity Awards Charlie Maclean-Bristol has been shortlisted for the Consultant of the Year at this years awards. The award ceremony is in May. Details of the awards can be found at http://www.businesscontinuityawards.com/ Charlie Maclean-Bristol to speak at the Shetland Islands Annual Emergency Planning Seminar in April 2009 The opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow created headlines across the world and caused major disruption to thousands of passengers. Charlie Maclean-Bristol of PlanB Consulting Ltd. will look at what went wrong and set out the lessons learned from the opening so that those who are responsible for similar high profile events can avoid having a similar experience. Details of the seminar can be found at http://www.shetland.gov.uk/emergencyplanning/whatwedo/documents/flyer.pdf
Article "Can business continuity be done on the cheap" published in the Spring 2009 addition of Blueprint the Emergency Planning Society's Magazine A copy of the article is available here Article "The ten most common mistakes people make when writing business continuity plans" published on Continuity Central January 2009 A copy of the article is available here or on Continuity Central Paper given at the BCI Symposium - October 2008 Charlie Maclean-Bristol presented on the ‘The Capability Graph’ at the BCI Symposium in Brighton. The presentation was based on an article published in The Business Continuity Journal in May. The paper was also published on Continuity Central. A number of readers of the article subsequently contacted Charlie with their thoughts and comments on the graph. A copy of the presentation can be found at the Presentations and Articles section of this site. Feedback on the presentation - "Charlie was short and simple - nice." Charlie Maclean-Bristol joins the BCI Board - October 2008 At the AGM of the Business Continuity Institute at the BCI Symposium it was agreed that Charlie would join the BCI Board. Presentation given at ALARM Scotland Annual Conference - September 2008 PlanB was asked at short notice if they could give a presentation on Business Continuity at the ALARM Scotland’s Annual Conference in Stirling. Charlie presented a paper on Risk Management & Business Continuity ‘Adding value to each other’. A copy of the presentation can be found at the Presentations and Articles section of this site. PlanB give presentation at ASSIST Conference - August 2008 Charlie Maclean-Bristol presented on Business Continuity – ‘What it can do for you and what you can do for it’ at the annual ASSIST Conference in St Andrews. ASSIST is The Association of Service Solutions in Scotland established to create and present a shared voice on all matters relating to Facilities Management throughout Scotland’s 32 local authorities. PlanB Consulting wins Shetland Islands Council Business Continuity Tender - July 2008 PlanB Consulting has been appointed by Shetland Islands
Council to help them develop their business continuity provision. PlanB to deliver paper at BCI Symposium - June 2008 Charlie Maclean-Bristol has been chosen to deliver
a paper on “Explaining Business Continuity – the capability
diagram” Paper published in the Business Continuity Journal Volume 3 Issue - May 2008 “The Business Continuity Journal is a peer reviewed international business continuity journal. Each issue provides unique very high level content, which explores advanced business continuity thinking and showcases the latest in business continuity academic research. Each paper in the Business Continuity Journal has been scrutinized by a panel consisting of experienced practitioners, academics and subject matter experts”. The paper presented was “Explaining Business Continuity – the capability diagram”. Abstract - I have on many occasions had to try to explain to colleagues and clients what business continuity is all about. I have started a number of times explaining “if their organisation suffered a disaster which caused the loss their head office building or their data centre it is all about planning for the recovery after a disaster….”. Eyes quickly begin to glaze over and they rapidly lose interest. What I have looked for is a simple diagram which would explain the essence of business continuity without jargon or any technical terminology but is powerful enough to capture completely the concept of business continuity easily understandable to a ‘layman’. In the Good Practice Guide and BS25999 there are diagrams which explain the process but these do not explain the essence of what business continuity is all about. To solve this problem I have come up with the ‘Capability Diagram’ and for me this works in capturing, in a simple diagram, what business continuity is all about. Presentation on Supply Chain and Business Continuity NORMIT - May 2008 Charlie was invited to present on “Supply Chain and Business Continuity” at the NORMIT annual conference in Norfolk. NORMIT is a mutual aid partnership between public organisations and private enterprise companies focusing on developing the resilience of the business community in Norfolk against the impact of emergencies. This enables the wider community of Norfolk to better cope with emergencies. After the event the following comments were made on the talk: “Presenter spoke well
and certainly knew his subject” A copy of the slides presented at the conference are available for download here. Article on “Crisis management lessons from Terminal 5” published on Continuity Central website - April 2008 In response to the British Airways failed opening at Terminal 5, Charlie wrote an article which was published on Continuity Central. The article was well received and received comments from the UK, Cyprus, South Africa and The United States. “Just read your article on Terminal 5, thought I would drop you a line and tell you that I found it very interesting and thought provoking”. Evan Bloom, Crisis Communications Consultancy South Africa. The article and comments can be read on the Continuity Central website.
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After attending the Business Continuity Institutes' 5 day business continuity training course in July tutored by Jim Burtles, Kim passed her Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute. Charlie passed the exam (with merit!) after tutoring the course in June. They believe that they are the first married couple to both have passed the exam!