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Mastering Business Continuity Exercises: Best Practices, Scenarios, and Tools for 2025

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These exercises identify weaknesses in a BCP, enhance employee preparedness, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Evaluation Metrics: Time taken to evacuate, system recovery speed, etc. Health Crisis Test your readiness for a sudden health emergency, like a pandemic. What Is a Business Continuity Exercise?

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What Does a Business Continuity Plan Typically Include? [Complete Guide]

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A business continuity plan (BCP) is your first line of defense against any challenge that threatens the core functionalities of your organization’s operations. When disaster strikes, your BCP should be there to reduce the time it takes to get things back up and running as usual again – as quickly as possible. Complete Guide].

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Is your Business Continuity Plan fit for hybrid working practices?

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Working practices have changed almost beyond recognition since the pandemic. Before the pandemic, this figure was estimated to be just 4.7%. Certain historic protocols no longer apply, whilst others require re-evaluation or further development to ensure business security.

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Why Crisis Management Preparedness Matters

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To evaluate your company’s crisis management preparedness, it helps to know what preparedness involves, as well as its place in the lifecycle of a crisis, which consists of three stages: preparation, response, and recovery. In fact, drafting a business continuity plan (BCP) follows next. Is your business adequately prepared?

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Continuity Strategies to Support an Enterprise Resiliency Program

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Additionally, Pandemic/Epidemic Response Plans and Emergency Response & Evacuation Plans extend beyond routine challenges to encompass broader human and environmental risks. A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a cornerstone, describing the continuity of core business functions and the communication pathways to maintain stakeholder trust.

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The Joy of Metrics + Training the Next Generation of Professionals

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Episode 163: The Joy of Metrics + Training the Next Generation of Professionals Metrics are a huge factor in business continuity and allow us to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our strategies. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Bernard Jones, professor of homeland security and emergency management at St. John’s University.

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Business Continuity Planning and Remote Work Challenges

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Before the Pandemic of 2020, we all knew that remote work is a viable option for many organizations. Due to the Pandemic impacts of business shutdowns in early March (here in Canada), many organizations were forced to flip the virtual switch. The sad fact is that it took a global pandemic to change many C-suite perceptions. .