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2012 Survey ‘Planning for the Worst’ Shows Encouraging Signs

Having learned from disruptions, organizations take action on business continuity plans

BSI
Wed, 03/21/2012 - 13:31
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(BSI: London) -- The 2012 Business Continuity Management Survey, “Planning for the Worst” published this month by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) examines how prepared organizations were for unexpected and damaging disruptions to their day-to-day operations over the past year.

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During 2011, UK organizations were presented with a wide range of unexpected threats, according to research published in CMI’s survey. While winter weather was the most common cause of organizational disruption for the third year running, other significant business disruptions included the public sector strikes (which caused problems for 55% of managers), the Blackberry outage (39%), the summer riots (26%), natural disasters such as the Japan earthquake and tsunami (19%), and international social and political unrest such as the Arab Spring uprising (18%).

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