Business Continuity and Resilience Blog

Our continuity and resilience consultants share their insight.

Approaching Business Continuity Planning post Covid-19

Posted by Mark Robinson on May 01, 2020

The effects of Covid-19 have significantly raised awareness of Business Continuity Planning, not least because many office-based firms have adapted and applied their plans and worked from home.  However, the operational impacts could not have been foreseen by many others, including manufacturers, retailers, restaurants and events companies. Why? Because virtually all their pre-planned fallback positions faced the same extraordinary challenge - lockdown with frozen budgets, stalled production and a broken supply chain.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Business Continuity Management, Risk, Business Impact Analysis, Resilience, ISO 22301, Insurance, Manufacturing, Blueprint, Small Business, Pandemic

Business Survival during Covid-19

Posted by Mark Robinson on Apr 07, 2020

This article talks about our suggested approach of managing the business through pandemic day-to-day. It includes some observations that may help you.

This is our second continuity article about Covid-19. Our first, Pandemic Planning for Business has been viewed and shared by thousands of organisations, with several that we know of adopting some or all the guidance it proposed. Although the situation has developed far beyond what many expected, it’s worth noting that most points we raised have materialised in some form.

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Tags: Business Continuity Management, Risk, Resilience, Insurance, Small Business, Pandemic

Business Continuity Planning software for small businesses

Posted by Mark Robinson on Jan 25, 2018


This week, Inoni launched the latest product in their suite of Business Continuity Planning tools for SMEs. Inoni Micro, built specifically for organisations up to 50 employees, offers a scaled-back and easy to complete online tool for managing a Business Continuity Plan.

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Tags: Business Continuity Management, Small Business

5 ways to build resilient robotics in your organisation

Posted by John Robinson on Apr 25, 2017

The following is taken from a whitepaper we recently published. You can download the full article here. It includes 5 additional resilience building methods not included in this article.

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Tags: Resilience, Manufacturing, Small Business

Guidelines for manufacturers preparing for Brexit

Posted by John Basinger on Mar 15, 2017

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I saw this article in Cabinet Maker magazine which discusses the findings of a recent KPMG report into the future of UK manufacture. The report details key practical measures that manufacturers can begin to put in place now to prepare for when the UK exits the EU in 2019. They include:

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Tags: Business Continuity Management, Insurance, Manufacturing, Small Business