What's the future career path for today's BCM professional? I've plodded along a BCM career path for 14 years, and I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. All I see is more tunnel.
Here's a simplified job description for a BCM Manager in a multinational company in..... Read more »
Tags: BCM dead end, business continuity future, BCP profession, BCP certification, risk management, career path, Asia, BCM Manager, BCI, Security
You have to love a risk management standard called "fifty-fifty". And all three parts of this Australia and New Zealand's proposed AS/NZ 5050 standard for risk management (and BCM) are free.
Part 1 is the Specification (what to do, "shall" do this, "may" do that). Part 2..... Read more »
Tags: BCM standards, AS/NZ 5050, ISO 31000, Sphere standards, Standards, risk management, audit, Agency, health service, Australia
Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't be able to write off the cost of our tickets as a professional development expense.
Spoiler: In the movie, China saves the human race,..... Read more »
Tags: moon recovery site, moon BCP, water on the moon, moon disaster recovery, 2012, 2012 BCP, 2012 DR, Moon, Recovery Site, Asia
My colleague and fellow IAEM Asia member Chew Lip Heng and I started writing a sample corporate incident action plan (IAP) for influenza in 2005 during the H5N1 panic. This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF version and this is the version in..... Read more »
Tags: Stage, World Health Organization, H1N1 Flu, Business Continuity, Influenza, business continuity planning, financial, Singapore, Plan, SARS
There is no such thing as a blood test for influenza. If you've been searching for one, you can stop.
Influenza is a respiratory disease, so specimens preferred for influenza testing come from the respiratory system: nasopharyngeal swab (from the upper part of the throat behind the..... Read more »
Tags: Patient, Asia, H1N1 Flu, AIDS, HIV virus, hepatitis, Influenza, Singapore
A colleague of mine returned to Singapore on Wednesday, May 27 from Boston, USA, where he'd spent the week between May 17 and May 24. He came back with a cold, a bad one.
He was sure it was a cold, not the flu: his temperature had not..... Read more »
Tags: Doctor, Patient, H1N1 Flu, Cold, Nurse, SARS, blood pressure, Nurses, payment, Singapore
I can find no clinical evidence that Roche's Tamiflu is more effective than GlaxoSmithKline's less-prescribed Relenza against Type A influenza like H1N1 and H5N1.
Tags: Roche Holding AG, H1N1 Flu, Influenza, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., business school, pharmaceutical company, Tamiflu, Relenza, Neuraminidase, Gilead
I have upbraided SPRING Singapore and the Singapore Business Federation for failing to promote effectively Singapore's erstwhile business continuity management (BCM) standard TR 19 between its birth in 2005 and its demise in 2008.
But for stealth and invisibility, it's hard to beat the..... Read more »
Tags: Malaysia, Tax, Business Continuity, business process, Singapore, marketing, computer, Southeast Asia, ISO, chairman
What does it really mean for an individual to be "certified" in business continuity?
Like the euphemism "sub-prime", the word "certified" is losing its meaning in Asia as the number and variety of BCM certifications and their purveyors grow like vines in a jungle. Attend a course, get the certificate..... Read more »
Tags: Certification, Asia, Business Continuity, Exam, certified public accountant, training, emergency management, motivation, recruiting, worker
In July 2008, I wrote that Technical Reference 19 (TR 19:2005), Singapore's proposed international standard for business continuity management (BCM), appeared to be dying a slow death and suggested that the prognosis for it might be terminal. I was wrong.
It turns out that the patient just needed cosmetic..... Read more »
Tags: Certification, Business Continuity, Standard, Singapore, marketing, incentive, health care, ISO, ISO 9001, process improvement
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