INTRODUCTION

Business continuity (BC) is a relatively new discipline, although people running organisations have been doing increasing amounts of the things that make up BC since the Industrial Revolution. The risks haven’t changed that much, but the way that we, as a society, think about risks has.

There are some newer risks, of course, particularly those to do with computers and information technology systems, but those have really grown at the same pace as the technologies themselves; it is simply that we are now more aware of many of the risks, and our attitude to how acceptable they are has changed.

This book is aimed at people involved in the running of all types of organisation; whether a private sector ‘for profit’ company, public service ...

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