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Traditional business continuity plans have stressed methods for protecting technology assets like phone systems, computers, data and applications, and networks. If something goes wrong, a Plan B scenario kicks in to save the business from impending disaster.
Is your business prepared for H1N1? Have you considered the consequences of not taking precautions against this flu? You're not alone – studies show that a surprising number of businesses have not engaged in any sort of planning – despite the growing threat.
With the recently announced cancellation of the UK Business Continuity Expo 2009 by Reed Exhibitions, it is clear that service providers expect businesses to scale back their budgets for disaster recovery and business continuity provision.
R&A Crisis Management Services Offers Free Webinar on Supply Chain ResiliencyR&A Crisis Management Services offers a webinar on Supply Chain Resiliency on September 25. As with all other risks that the business community must face, it is essential that businesses ensure supply chain resilience.
How to Get Your iPhone Stolen - CIO.com - Business Technology LeadershipHere's something you might not know about risk—size matters. Manufacturers can tell you, for example, how the relationship between the size of a product and its value affects the chances it will be stolen.
Virtualization and Beer: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together - PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized ComputingFoster's EMEA uses virtualization for disaster recovery, and a lot of businesses are following suit. Bravo for virtualization! And disaster recovery! And delicious cold lager!
State, Federal Officials Discuss Pandemic FluStreaming live now, in North Carolina: Superb discussion. I hope a recording will be made available.
US shippers face complex task in event of flu pandemicBusiness continuity: The companies, from air express providers to truckers to railroads, are focused on how they would function during a pandemic without spreading contagion in a business where human interaction is inevitable.
EU's poultry firms face change due to bird fluHorizontal tail: "The industry needs to anticipate the new reality. Companies will have to learn to live with the virus," Nan-Dirk Mulder, global livestock specialist at Rabobank told Reuters.
The price of cheap chicken is bird fluMy takeaway: H5N1 bird-flu -- impacting both the backyard flock and industrial production -- can rightly be called a global business perturbation.
U.S. trucking group launches avian flu task forceThe national U.S. trade association for trucking companies said on Tuesday that it has formed a task force to prepare the industry for a possible influenza pandemic.
China Halts Bird Exports to Hong Kong After Flu Case (Update1)China halted the supply of live poultry, chicks and pet birds to Hong Kong for three weeks after a man in Guangzhou died of avian influenza, Hong Kong's government said in a statement.
Bird flu in India: profits override public health concernsSuperb illustration of the cooperative, collaborative challenge before us.
Europe counts cost of bird flu, fresh cases emergeEurope's poultry industry counted the multi-million-dollar cost of the spread of bird flu in lost sales on Friday after U.S. agencies urged more funds to fight a possible deadly human pandemic that could kill millions.
Flu pandemic preparation underwayGov. Bob Riley and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt signed a resolution at a health summit in Birmingham last week outlining the state's plan in the case of an influenza pandemic.
Scripps Howard News ServiceAs the bird flu expands into most of Europe, business and public-health experts in the United States are putting new focus on how they can keep essential services going around the country — and the world — in the face of a pandemic.
Businesses need to plan for influenza pandemic, expert tells conferenceWash your hands, get a shot, stay home if you're sick. And decide who's essential to run your business if an influenza pandemic strikes.
Dutch poultry sales suffers blow from bird fluDutch poultry sales have been hit by bird flu as sales in its main exporting markets dropped amid fears of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Sales of poultry products have dropped by 70 percent in Italy and by 20 percent in Germany, Dutch news agency ANP reported Monday.
Bird Flu, Pandemic, Planning and YouIn the event of a human to human contagion being spawned, you will hear media announcements of clusters of human infection appearing perhaps faster than they can confirm that H5N1 is even to blame. The keyword is continuity.
In an email I received this morning, Paola Di Maio announces the beta launch of www.p2pAid.org. A few snips from the web site:... simple functionality that will help people help other people by contributing whatever they can to a 'virtual supply chain' for emergency and relief.
Prepare for Pandemic, Localities Are Warned"Any community that fails to prepare with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue will be tragically wrong," Leavitt told an audience at the Maryland Pandemic Influenza Summit in Linthicum.
If a pandemic strikes, are you ready?If you had to be on your own, in your home, for two weeks or more, what would you need to have on hand to survive?
Quebec pandemic planners seek volunteers to fill in for ill health workersThe Quebec government is looking for volunteers to keep the public health care system running in the event of a flu pandemic.
Businesses zero in on details of pandemic flu planningCritical for businesses in preparing for a flu pandemic will be taking care of their primary asset—their employees. This was an overarching theme expressed by participants in this week's Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza: A National Summit, held in Minneapolis.
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