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?

Season 3

S3, Episode 5 - Why good Supply Chain Management is in short supply

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?

S3, Episode 6  - How to have a successful Business Continuity career

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.

The BCPcast Live - COVID - 19 Response

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.

S4, Episode 1 - Out of the Shadows

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?

S4, Episode 2 - Business Continuity or Resilience?

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?

S4, Episode 3 - Managing the crisis – who’s in charge?

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.

S4, Episode 4 - How to lead the crisis

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

S4, Episode 5 - Working in Business Continuity

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.

S4, Episode 6 - Trust the process: planning & exercising

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.

S4, Episode 7 - Crisis communications & cyber

Ever wondered how suet pudding could bring one of the UK’s busiest trading floors to a grinding halt? Or why there used to be a caterpillar in the London Risk Register? The Business Continuity Podcast is a straightforward, jargon-free discussion with people who deal with disasters for a living.

We delve into the exercises and methodologies that keep organisations like The Economist, Fujitsu and the BCI secure and resilient, and explore just how much continuity planning goes into something like the London 2012 Olympics.