Continuity Insights

Where do today’s leaders in business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management turn for guidance? The Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP) has gathered its collective expertise into the Book of Best Practices—a must-have resource for practitioners at every level. Inside the fourth edition of this essential guide, you’ll find: ✅ Peer-reviewed insights from continuity experts who’ve successfully implemented real solutions in their organizations.

(Photo: Adobe Stock / Generated with AI by INSPIRIA.K) By Terry Swanson, Singlewire Software When a school locks student phones away for the day, it changes more than the noise level in the hallway. It changes how information moves. Students had long used their phones to tell a parent they felt sick, to hear that practice was canceled, or to quietly flag something that felt wrong.

(Photo: Adobe Stock / Gorodenkoff) The project is approved, the budget is set, the contractor is ready to mobilize. Then someone asks the question that changes everything: “Are we doing this while the building is still open?” For most facilities, the answer is yes. Shutting down a hospital wing, a school, a corporate campus, or a manufacturing floor to accommodate construction, restoration, or repair work isn’t realistic. Operations continue. People show up. Work goes on.

(Image: Adobe Stock / Generated with AI by Padang Pidie) For organizations managing sensitive operations, knowing who is in a facility is fundamental to maintaining security, compliance, and operational continuity. But new research from Envoy suggests many organizations have significant gaps in that visibility. According to Envoy’s “The State of Physical Security & Compliance” report, 44% of leaders at high-security workplaces say they cannot confidently state who was in their building yesterday.

Reliable power is no longer just a backup plan; it can be a business continuity advantage. As energy needs change, leaders face a harder question: How do they plan for power when demand can shift by the hour, season, weather pattern, production cycle, customer need, utility price and stage of growth? Essential operations need reliable power when and where it is needed. They also need flexibility as business needs evolve.

Presented by… Jori Leszczynski Assistant Vice Chancellor for Animal Resources, Attending Veterinarian and Professor of Pathology, University of Colorado Anschutz Rachel Cruz Emergency Management Program Manager, University of Colorado Anschutz Emergency preparedness in complex research and healthcare environments requires an integrated approach that combines emergency management, continuity planning, training, exercises, and continuous improvement.

Climate-related disruptions are becoming a growing business continuity concern for pharmaceutical companies across the UK and G7 countries, with 87% expecting supply-chain impacts to increase in the coming years, according to new research from the British Standards Institution (BSI). The findings highlight the need for organizations to build greater resilience into critical supply chains as they prepare for increasingly disruptive climate risks.

9/11 Memorial Beams with Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan. (Photo: Adobe Stock / Brian E Kushner) Physical security technology in U.S. buildings may not have kept pace with the security advances seen at airports since the 9/11 attacks 25 years ago, according to a new national survey.

(Photo: Adobe Stock / FotoArtist) Critical maintenance knowledge may be a significant operational vulnerability for organizations, according to new research from Limble. The company’s inaugural State of Maintenance Report, based on a survey of nearly 700 maintenance technicians and leaders across the United States, found that 74% of maintenance organizations have critical assets that depend on a single person’s knowledge.

Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence could trigger a massive redistribution of corporate profits, and create new sources of operational risk along the way. Bain & Company estimates that $4.7 trillion in profits could shift across industries by 2035 as AI transforms how companies operate and compete.