Crisis Comms isn’t just for cyber and cyber is much bigger than comms. But in the Venn diagram of Business Continuity topics, there’s a lot of overlap on these two.

Where should we focus our efforts for the best return? We’re looking at the nuts and bolts of Business Continuity: plans, planning, testing and exercising.

How to break into the industry, Business Continuity degrees, the best industries to work in and how to improve welfare for BC professionals.

In the second episode on Managing the crisis we’re talking about Crisis leadership. What makes a good leader, how to run the crisis and how to get better at it.

Over the next two episodes, we’re looking at Managing the crisis. Who is the right person to lead your crisis response? The BC Manager or the CEO?

There’s been a shift in recent years away from “Business Continuity” to the more holistic “Resilience”. Is it just renaming and rebranding the same job or something more significant?

The theme of this season was meant to be “Business Continuity – out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight”. Our thinking was that over the last few years, cyber attacks, extreme weather, increased regulation and political uncertainty have shoved the BC profession to centre-stage.

At the start of 2020, that was a quite novel and we thought we might have to work to sell the idea.

Then COVID-19 happened.Now, we don't need to make the case for Business Continuity anymore.

Instead, we’re making Coronavirus and the greater attention on BC the theme of this first episode.

COVID-19 is the biggest continuity incident of our time.

So we gathered together some of our favourite Business Continuity Podcast guests to review and unpack the business response to Coronavirus.

How do you start? What skills do you need to develop? What can you do to make yourself stand out? And what makes the job worthwhile?

It’s pretty frightening to think a separate business could bring about the end of your own. So does supply chain management get enough attention? If not, why? And how can we get better at it?