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Corporate preparedness for the FIFA World Cup 2026: duty of care, risk, and opportunity
We are very pleased to have had the following article published in Resilience Forward Abstract The FIFA World Cup 2026, spanning the United States, Canada, and Mexico, presents businesses with significant commercial opportunities alongside heightened operational and...
Medical Cement Shortage: A Single Point of Failure Case Study
Health systems across the UK and Europe have been forced into emergency mode after a disruption at a German manufacturing plant between 18th-22nd February 2026, triggered a worldwide shortage of medical bone cement. What initially appeared to be an isolated technical...
We exercise regularly, but why do we often struggle to learn from them?
In today’s complex risk landscape, organisations face ever-increasing threats from cyberattacks and natural disasters to supply chain shocks and geopolitical instability. As a result, many organisations simulate disruptions through scenario exercises to assess and...
Why do we never consult the plan during a crisis?
The famous World War 2 German General Erwin Rommel once remarked: "The British write some of the best doctrine [handbooks] in the world, it is fortunate that their officers do not read it." This aphorism has a universal truth in it – why do strategic and tactical...
Learning from the Heathrow Airport closure 21st March 2025
The 75-page Heathrow Airport report by Rt Hon Ruth Kelly into the Heathrow Airport closure on 21st March 2025 details a large number of findings and recommendations. Below are some key takeaways that can be applied to almost all organisations Background A complete...
Problems with the Podium: Does Gold take all in Crisis Response?
What’s the issue? Many organisations and business have adopted the Gold, Silver and Bronze tiers of command developed in the UK by the Emergency Services to structure their response to a disruption or a crisis. For the most part this has been successful, but in some...
‘BCP’: a confusing term
We frequently hear the term ‘BCP’ being used by clients as shorthand for an array of business continuity related activities. Most often this is used in the context of a disruption and the need to move from a business-as-usual response to an incident management...
Why Do Companies Implement Business Continuity?
Organisations implement business continuity arrangements for a range of strategic, operational, and regulatory reasons; increasingly, as a core component of responsible business management. For some, business continuity is a regulatory requirement, such as in the...
Why Cyber Resilience Must Now Be a Strategic Business Priority
Recent cyber-attacks targeting Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods have once again underscored the urgent and growing need for organisations to build cyber resilience. These high-profile breaches have made headlines and highlighted the vulnerabilities even major...
The Long-Term Impact of a Crisis Management Response
The way in which your business responds to a crisis has a lasting impact on its revenue and its reputation. Yet too many businesses have a short-term mentality when considering crisis management - effectively only thinking about how to restore operations as quickly...
The Power of Business Continuity Software
Businesses must be able to respond proactively to any unplanned event that could impact their operations and the way in which this is achieved is through business continuity planning. When a business is prepared for any eventuality, it is less likely to experience...
What does a business continuity consultant do?
Did you know that companies that do not resume operations within 10 days of being impacted by a disaster are unlikely to survive long term? In fact, half of UK businesses that experience a disaster never re-open [1]. If this statistic surprises you, you need to...
How to Choose a Business Continuity Consultant
Business continuity planning is essential for safeguarding business operations in the event of an unexpected event that impacts your ability to carry out core functions and services. Nowadays, this could be anything - from significant macro events such as a pandemic...
How We Can Help You During a Crisis?
It is difficult to predict what the next crisis will be. After all, nobody predicted COVID-19 or the long-lasting effects that it would have. There are some crises to which businesses can only react, but in the main, taking the time to develop a proactive crisis...
How effective are your business continuity and crisis response exercises?
“Planning for emergencies cannot be considered reliable until it is exercised and has proved to be workable, especially since false confidence may be placed in the integrity of a written plan.” UK Government What’s the problem? The benefits of organisations exercising...
Where Next for the BIA?
For predominantly professional service businesses, the ubiquity of laptop computers, advances in video conferencing software and cloud-based applications means that that majority of office-based functions can be replicated anywhere in the world. In addition,...
Certification to ISO 22301
In May 2012, ISO 22301:2012 Societal security – Business continuity management systems – Requirements was finally released. This international standard will replace BS 25999-2:2007 Business Continuity Management Specifications in November 2012. On 26 July 2012, we...
Case Study: Needhams ISO 22301:2012
Business continuity consultancy, Needhams 1834 became the first in the UK to gain certification to ‘ISO 22301:2012 Societal security: Business continuity management systems’ following the standard’s release in May 2012. This case study looks at the process the...
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