Community resilience: The future of business continuity
Abstract
Business continuity planners must now raise their horizons and engage in developing community resilience for businesses. Community resilience will help businesses to withstand the effects of a major regional or national emergency. Developing these preparations will improve communication between businesses and the authorities which are involved in directing the response and recovery to an emergency. It will lead to improved clarity of the situation and facilitate a better commitment of resources. Economic and business recovery can be a long-term process, meaning that a return to profitability may be slow. The involvement, by businesses, in community resilience will help to shorten that recovery time and will limit longer-term business disruption.
The full article is available to subscribers to the journal.
Author's Biography
John Collicutt is the Managing Director of Decisive Operations Limited, a risk and intelligence management consultancy. Through specialising in enterprise risk management solutions, he has developed an expertise in business continuity and resilience. In 2007, he chaired the national economic and business recovery subgroup that reported to the Cabinet Office on how to improve the UK’s ability to recover from major incidents or emergencies. Previously, he was the Head of Risk for the NorthWest Regional Development Agency, 2006/8, where he was a member of the NorthWest Regional Resilience Forum. He was also the British representative on the coalition strategic planning team in Baghdad in 2004/5.
Citation
Collicutt, John (2009, February 1). Community resilience: The future of business continuity. In the Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Volume 3, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.69554/RNTU3673.
Publications LLP