Articles on Business Continuity Management

• Introduction to Business Continuity Management

  We all need the support services that we often take for granted to be available to us 24/7 and whenever...

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• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery – Important For Every Business and Organisation

  Managing Business operations in current times is a big challenge. Apart from having to keep looking at the bottom lines...

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• How a typical Business Continuity Program Works ?

  In the last decade or so, the threats to the working environment of companies have multiplied ranging from 9-11 type...

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• How to Prepare a Business Continuity Management Program?

  The previous articles have mentioned about the need for a business continuity management program and the components of a typical...

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• Transnational Corporations and Business Continuity Programs

  Transnational corporations or Multinational Companies as they are also called need to have robust and well thought out business continuity...

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• Risk Mitigation Team and their Role in Business Continuity Management

  In previous articles, we have seen how Business Continuity Programs are formulated and how they are executed in times of...

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• Role of External Consultants in Business Continuity Management

  In previous articles, we have discussed how risk management teams and the management can help in planning for contingencies. In...

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• Business Continuity Management is more of a Mindset than Theoretical Planning

  The legendary founder of Infosys, N R Narayan Murthy once when asked what his greatest challenge everyday was replied that...

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• Business Continuity Management Planning around the World

  In these turbulent times when the business environment is characterized by uncertainty and fraught with risks of all kinds, companies...

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• The Perils of Not Having Business Continuity Management Plans

  This module has covered the need for business continuity management as a paradigm to be followed by corporates. This article...

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• The Necessity of Backup Sites for BPO Companies

  In previous modules on continuity of business, we had discussed how companies need to be prepared for any eventuality –...

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• The 24/7 Interconnected World and Its Susceptibility to Sudden Collapse

  The Perils of 24/7 Interconnectedness We live in a world that is not only integrated and interconnected largely but which...

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• How Individuals and Companies can Protect Themselves from Systemic Risks

  Systemic Risks and their Impacts Business continuity planning and management is an approach that companies adopt to protect themselves from...

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• Person Dependence in Organizations and Steps to Manage or Reduce the Same

  Some Real World Examples of Person Dependence and its Perils A common problem across organizations in the contemporary corporate world...

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• Benefits of Automation for Banks and Financial Institutions

  Why Banks Embrace IT and Automation We live in a digital age and hence, no institution of the global economy...

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• Avoiding Three Traps that can Destroy Family Owned Businesses

  Family owned businesses have been the norm from the time of the industrial revolution and in fact, they were the...

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• Intellectual Property Rights and their Protection and Defense by Businesses

  The Debate over IPR In recent years, intellectual property rights (IPR) have become the topic of intense discussion and concerted...

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• Why Companies Living Quarter to Quarter is Both a Good as well as a Bad Idea

  Living for the Next Quarter Of late, many publicly listed companies have been living “quarter to quarter” or the practice...

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• It’s Now or Never: Why Business Must Embrace Sustainability before it is Too Late

  How Climate Change and Ecological Damage is Hurting Our Planet Everywhere we look around us, we see the impacts of...

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