CHAPTER 13: THE NEW WORLD OFSUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability is now a key theme in corporate social responsibility, something that also drives business resilience. So it would be counterintuitive if business continuity arrangements, for all their positive qualities in maximising the organisation’s operational resilience, were to drive a coach and horses through accepted sustainability principles.
Many would argue, not unreasonably, that in the very unlikely event that the organisation is required to operate in an unsustainable way for, say, three weeks in 10 years, then so be it. If that is what it takes to minimise impact, then it is an acceptable price to pay.
But in this context, sustainability is about both how things are done during an incident ...
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