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Welsh Miners
Last week when I heard of the four miners trapped in the Gleision Colliery mine in Wales, I was relaxed about the event; ever since the rescue of the Chilean Miners it seems that miners don’t die in accidents, they can be saved and I waited for the good news story. As [...]
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Counting the costs of the riots
I saw this headline on the online version of The Telegraph today (24th August) “UK retailers lost 30,000 trading hours due to riots” which they say equates to upwards of 1,250 trading days lost. When we are carrying out the business impact analysis stage of the business continuity lifecycle we are always trying to find [...]
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The next incident is always the one we haven’t thought of …….
“The next incident is always the one we haven’t thought of…’ I use this phrase during all my training and time and time again it proves to be true; ash cloud, fuel crisis etc. Who would have thought that there would be rioting on the streets of United Kingdom. Dare I say this is the [...]
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It’s ok we have a standby generator……
Many organisation protect themselves against power cuts by use of a standby generator. for their data centres they will use a UPS (uninterruptable power supply)combined with a standby generator. Often these can provide false comfort as they don’t actually work on the day for a variety of reasons, ranging from the generator being unable support...
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Disaster Recovery – What a Business Continuity Manager should know about their organisation’s IT systems
I am just about to go down and see a clients IT department and was preparing a list of questions to ask them. I thought I would share it with the readers of this blog. These are the questions I think all Business Continuity Managers (BCM) should know about their own IT systems. I believe you don’t [...]
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Business Continuity Top 10 Tunes
In December Charlie put out the following challenge on the BCMIX Group on LinkedIn: “I am looking for tunes so I can compile the business continuity top 10 to play at the Christmas party. Does anyone have any appropriate tunes? My starter for 1 is Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive….” I got back 225 suggestions! [...]
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