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His current focus is establishing and implementing the Global Resilience program which focuses on improving the maturity of BusinessContinuity and crisis/major incident management in the organization. We will get to hear how he's applied that work into his professional life. Links: Linkedin. .
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In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is businesscontinuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is BusinessContinuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.
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