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Keith Appleyard

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Scrutinise your pandemic contingency plans

With the number of confirmed swine flu cases continuing to rise, a global benchmarking survey of financial institutions has revealed that, although over 70% of firms have a pandemic-specific business continuity programme in place, many may be dangerously out of date. https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=19996 30% of those programmes have not ...

06 May 2009 /regulation Whatever...

Nine Steps to Prepare Your Business for a Pandemic

The Financial Services Authority has called on UK Financial Services firms to assess their contingency plans in light of the recent outbreak of influenza https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=19992 With acknowledgments to SunGuard, here is a useful Nine Steps to Prepare Your Business for a Pandemic 1. Consider the Impact of Missing People Wit

04 May 2009 /regulation Whatever...

Influenza pandemic - 53 percent of organisations have no BCP

It's only been 4 weeks since I wrote that 2 out of 3 UK Companies did not have a proven Business Continuity Plan https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2737 but no apologies for resurrecting it again so quickly, since it also reported that 53% of organisations have no plans to help them cope during an influenza pandemic. So before thin...

30 April 2009 /regulation Whatever...

RyanAir - go find a computer

RyanAir has announced that from 1st October, there will be no Ryanair check-in desk at any of its airports, and everyone must check-in online and print off their boarding pass. On the one hand RyanAir check-in is more flexible than British Airways etc, who don't let you check-in online until 24 hours before departure, and won't let you use the chec...

29 April 2009 Whatever...

Breeding the Next-Generation of Computer Hackers

The other week I was participating in a Computer Weekly / British Telecom workshop regarding Collaboration Technology. I made the point that as well as using Technology to enable Collaboration we need to encourage people to take precautions not to freely share commercially sensitive or personal data. I advised the other participants that most if no...

03 April 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

Timely warning of not relying too much on DNA evidence

German authorities have ended their search for a female serial killer after discovering that DNA thought to be from 40 crime scenes actually came from a woman who packed the cotton swabs used to gather evidence. The German police collected DNA from the scenes of crimes ranging from break-ins to murder. The samples were stored on a DNA database and ...

03 April 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

2 out of 3 UK Companies without a proven BCP

The Chartered Management Institute, in association with the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, has just released the Business Continuity Management Report 2009 (the 10th annual report in the series) appropriately titled “A Decade of Living Dangerously” Selected Highlights : The survey was sent to a random sample of 15,000 CMI ...

02 April 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

Neither a Customer nor a Client or a Stakeholder be .....

The UK Local Government Association has compiled a banned list of the 200 worst uses of jargon, with "coterminosity" & "predictors of beaconicity" prominent in most press reports. The Council Leaders say such words and phrases must be avoided for staff to "communicate effectively". The list includes suggested trans...

31 March 2009 Whatever...

A bad banker and a dishonourable man.

I thought the Fred Goodwin saga was over, but it seems to run and run, so I thought I'd put in my two-penn'th The old RBS Pension plan allowed staff to retire at 60 on two thirds of their final salary after a 40-year career. If Goodwin was treated like any other RBS employee, then his actual service since 1998, plus pensionable service transferred ...

19 March 2009 /retail Whatever...

How to Punish the Bankers - in the good old days

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as sent by Colin Knox to Private Eye) : "AD1125 In this year sent the King Henry, before Christmas, from Normandy to England, and bade that all the mint-men that were in England should be mutilated in their limbs; that was, that they should lose each of them the right hand, and their testicles beneath. This was...

19 March 2009 /regulation Whatever...

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