CHAPTER 11: BCM AS ACOMPETITIVENESS/ASSURANCE TOOL

There are plenty of arguments about whether business continuity is really necessary as a visible discipline, and about the things that make it important.

The balance between competitiveness and assurance will always depend on the individual organisation and its risk appetite, but nobody really knows when some new requirement to demonstrate organisational resilience, for which business continuity arrangements are really the only control, will arrive: whether from customers, regulators, legislators, investors, or perhaps an expectation amongst people who can influence the organisation’s existence; the public, perhaps.

Many organisations are already doing some of what is needed, but cannot demonstrate ...

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