This years CMI Business Continuity Survey is available for download below and this year shows just how challenging 2011 was for organisations.
Overall the report details some interesting changes and reflects on the effects of the more social disruption and its effects than previous years surveys.
Heading the list of incidents again was the winter weather That stuck hard nearly 30% of respondents causing major disruption and impact of the snow and cold weather affected an additional 52% of the sample who report minor impacts on operations (82% total). This is the second year in a row that weather has been more problematic than IT issues that still hit 39% of organisations over the year up 5% on the previous survey.
ICM Business Continuity has released figures showing the causes of customer invocations from January through to June 2011.
Out of 58 events 42 where related to hardware with 15 attributed to other causes including seven down to power issues and two instances each of Flooding, Fire and Data Corruption. There was even one denial of Access event.
This Business Continuity Survey is now closed.
The summary report will be issued in the 1st Qtr of 2011. If you would like more information please contact us directly.
Some working in the field of Business Continuity may not remember a time before standards, but for many of us in the field for longer, the work of the BCM Committee of the BSI to create the world's first BCM standard was instrumental in developing much-needed consistency and credibility across the sector. The outcome of this work, BS25999, has been at the heart of much of the subsequent development in the discipline, and the BSI has one of the most successful Management Standards ever issued.
As BS25999 approaches its fourth birthday, the BSI BCM/1 committee, is looking to assess the experience and opinions of hundreds of practitioners and BCM managers all around the world on how they are applying BS25999 and its family of related standards and Published Documents in their organisations.
Consequently, the BCM/1 committee has developed the BS25999 2010 Survey, in conjunction with the Business Continuity Institute and the Continuity Forum, which they hope you will find the time to contribute to.
The BSI, BCI and Continuity Forum are coming together to undertake an industry-wide survey on how the worlds most successful Business Continuity Standard, BS25999, is being used by organisations around the world.
Continuity Forum Chairman, Russell Price said "BS25999 has been remarkably successful and is well established in the field ... but as the BCM sector evolves and experience grows we should regularly review the fit between standards and organisational needs."
All contributions are made in confidence and a report on the findings will be available on completion of the project.
Marsh publish new 2010 research on European wide BCM attitudes and opinion.
Two years ago Marsh published its first in-house survey into Business Continuity attitudes, this year's update gives us considerable food for thought in how the industry is developing and where priorities should lie.
Encouragingly many of the underlying attitudes to business continuity appear to be positive, although there is clear evidence of different countries and industries progressing at markedly different rates. In the most established markets BCM has clearly become a core topic generally aligning well with the goals and objectives of the organisation. Integration across the business has also been seen to improve.
Over the course of the past 10 years the annual Business Continuity study by the Chartered Management institute has plotted the progress and expansion of the profession. 2010 is no exception. Over the past 12 months the country has faced widespread disruption through extreme weather events, recession and the potential posed by the swine flu pandemic ... it has been a year to challenge most working in the field.
Research by Marsh has determined that "British organizations are more concerned during the recession by overseas risks affecting their supply chains and business rather than by threats closer to home."
In its new Business Continuity Management (BCM) survey, "Facing an Uncertain Future," Marsh polled 109 UK firms and public sector organizations to establish their attitudes towards and levels of preparedness for key BCM risks such as terrorism, supply chain disruption and economic conditions.