London Riots: Civil Unrest Impacts Business Continuity Planning.

Business Continuity hit the mainstream news this week as a Sony DADC spokesperson made reference to the actioning of their BC Plan and that they were "back up and running from a new control room in Enfield" hours after their distribution centre in Enfield was razed to the ground in the London riots. Read more...

Business Continuity Institute Technical Development Director Lyndon Bird, spoke about some of the unforeseen Business Continuity challenges during these unprecedented events saying, “...plans will assume that if people are safe then they will be available to work, but this may not be the case if they are too frightened to work, especially at night in more dangerous areas. To complicate things, nobody really knows where the dangerous areas will be in this situation." Read more...

James Crask, business continuity senior manager at PwC comments on Business Continuity considerations as they relate to the riots saying, "Many businesses and communities have been badly affected, and it is at times like this that robust crisis management and business continuity arrangements will pay dividends to any organisation." Read more...