Only three months ago,  a report resulting from research by the Chartered Management Institute was released to the general public.  The report was authored by Patrick Woodman and Dr. Vidal Kumar.  Against the backdrop of continued threats to business disruptions , there remains a strong need for business continuity planning and strategies in today’s organizations.

Having overlooked an earlier  recommendation from our blog to read this important report, we were recently reminded of it from several emails sent to our attention on this topic.  We would like to argue that while this report was conducted in the U.K for and within the U.K. market, it still is good reading by and relevant to U.S. companies.

Please consider adding this report to your library of resources dealing with the topic of Business Continuity Management.

Click here to read this report.

Joan Goodchild, Senior Editor, of CSO Magazine, writes about the recent results of a new survey research report by AT&T.  In this report, it states that nearly a third of reporting companies have had to put their business continuity plans into action — with the most common scenarios still being extreme weather and power outages. 

When compared to earlier surveys, this report now indicates a strong trend for companies to put their attention not only to their own business continuity plans, but also to those of their partners and key suppliers.

With more companies allowing their employees to access social networking sites, a growing concern is now focused on the potential impact to network security — however, hacking continues to remain the biggest security risk to organizations according to the findings in this report.

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iJet Intelligent Risk Systems, a provider of global intelligence and business resiliency services, has announced the publication of its annual Business Resiliency Survey Results for 2009.

Some of the good news from the survey is that business resiliency planning appears to be more mature than expected, and, that senior management has increased its focus on this topic.  Some of the other findings have indicated that the number of disruptions to organizations were increasing with both frequency and severity.

We suggest reading this report to not only gather information on this important topic, but more importantly to find that information most relevant to each of your individual organizations.

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