Business Continuity in a COVID-19 World – Ep 122 – Steve Lambert

Tech Interviews

The world finds itself in uncharted territory, gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic putting unprecedented pressure on public health and the global economy. For enterprises of all types, the challenges of trying to continue business as normal are going significant. How do we go about it? What is our business continuance strategy? What are some of the key things we should be considering and the challenges we need to overcome? I’ve been wondering over the last few days how I could help, one idea is to try to share good practice and advice from those in the IT and business continuity industries on dealing with the current crisis and giving your enterprises the very best chance of successfully finding a path through these challenging times. What better way to do that than through the Tech Interviews podcast. In this first Tech Interviews special, I speak with business continuity specialist and returning guest, Steve Lambert of Biscon, a UK based risk and business continuity consultancy to share with us their experience and tips on how delivering an effective plan for dealing with this current global crisis. We discuss. The main areas of consideration Why crisis communication is crucial The challenge of dealing with IT that has never been tested like this before Thinking about your staff – can they really work remotely? Keeping in contact Not all communication is technology! Be flexible Supplying and suppliers What things may catch you out? Keeping informed The advice is fluid, your continuity plan needs to be too. Prioritize what’s important today Make sure you learn your lessons These are certainly unprecedented challenges we are dealing with and to a degree we are all learning as we go but having a plan is hugely valuable and Steve shared some great tips, experience and advice. If you have questions about the topics covered or other areas you’d like us to cover on the podcast, then of course, you can email me at [e-mail] I’ll have some more special shows coming soon alongside the more usual content, but for the time been, stay healthy and thanks for listening. Full show notes are here https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1Kl