Business Continuity

Have we over-complicated Business Continuity?

For many businesses, the last 6 months have been a battle for survival and, on a theoretical level, this would appear to be exactly what Business Continuity Planning should be all about. However, since anecdotal evidence suggests that very few plans had considered this scale of crisis, it begs the question whether we have over-complicated our processes and are now missing the fundamental point of resilience planning?

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SHOULD AFRICA TAKE A CONTINENTAL VIEW OF HIGHER EDUCATION POST COVID 19?

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Should Africa take a continental view of Higher Education post COVID-19? There are certainly many reasons why they should and COVID may provide an excellent opportunity to do just that. India’s new National Education Policy contains much that could be relevant to Africa as well, and Morocco could play a leading role in guiding Africa towards the provision of a joined-up, continent wide Higher Education system fit for the 21st century.

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Africa’s Changing Resilience Picture

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Many African nations took a very proactive approach to COVID in an attempt to mitigate the effect on their fragile health systems; however, from a purely economic perspective, prolonged lockdown and quarantine will have a significant effect. Businesses that routinely trade with Africa need to be assured that partners or suppliers are suitably resilient but may also need support if they are to stay afloat at all. Inverroy’s Africa Lead, Toby Ingram considers these issues and looks at Business Continuity and Resilience from a global perspective.

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Ongoing Challenges for the Chemical Industry

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Chemicals have two defining characteristics: they are central to the modern world, and they are hugely dangerous in the event of an accident.

An initial report by Reuters states that a potential “chemical accident” triggered the explosion at the Industrias Químicas del Óxido de Etileno plant happened in La Canonja municipality. This incident consumed local emergency, aviation and train services and caused the closure of vital routes in and out of the region.

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Spanning the link – Is your supply chain prepared for disruption?

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On Sunday, 6 October, Scotland’s busiest ferry route between Ardrossan and Brodick was rendered inoperative as a result of the failure of both linkspans at Ardrossan harbour. A swift response by Calmac looked like it was taken straight from the Business Continuity textbooks …

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Drones: has technology changed the security landscape again?

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Can the richest and most influential economies on the planet, can have infrastructure which is critical to them (and arguably the rest of the world) threatened by technology that you can buy in a model shop for under £1000?

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