Tag: ContinuitySA
Building and enhancing business resilience
2020 has seen more people speaking of 'resilience' than ever before. While some organisations are well underway on their resilience journeys, others still ponder what resilience really means and how to start building it. Amidst global economic pressures, many organisations do not have the funds, resources and time available to develop and implement comprehensive programmes to enhance resilience.
COVID-19 pandemic: what the crisis means for IT
Renewed emphasis on digitalisation as a key strategy for sustainability is placing pressure on CIOs to ensure corporate systems are resilient. One certainty that has emerged from the COVID-19 crisis is that organisations embarking on digitalisation were better prepared to respond to the crisis.
BusinessBrief April/May 2020 edition is now available!
Read our exclusive cover story titled COVID-19 | HOW TO SURVIVE FROM CRISIS TO CONTINUITY? by Michael Davies, CEO, ContinuitySA, as well a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics in the April/May 2020 edition of BusinessBrief.
Is your organisation prepared for the coronavirus?
With thousands of cases reported, and the World Health Organisation declaring it a global health emergency, the coronavirus has been making headlines.
Proactivity is the key to effective cybersecurity
Given current threat levels, all organisations should assume that they will experience some sort of cyber security incident sooner or later—probably sooner. Plan for the worst and, most important of all, know what to do when an incident occurs.
Beware the iceberg!
Insourcing your business continuity management may seem to make sense—until, too late, you realise that 80 percent of the costs and complexities are hidden. Although most responsible organisations now accept the imperative for a proper business continuity management (BCM) plan, when it comes to investing in a business continuity capability, the eternal problem of costs asserts itself.
Build resilience for the unexpected!
If nothing else, 2017 provided proof positive that the unexpected does happen. South Africa’s political and economic crisis entered a new phase with the GuptaLeaks revelations, Kenya had to rerun its elections and the seemingly indomitable Robert Mugabe was forced from office in disgrace.
