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business continuity planning

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Fiscal year ends, business continuity, and COVID-19

At the best of times, fiscal year ends are challenging. Organizations with upcoming or recent fiscal year ends will undoubtedly find them particularly challenging. Organizations with robust policies and procedures will likely fare better than those without. Consequently, it will be helpful to start your year end planning as early as you can.

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Entering the era of operational resilience

Operational resilience is the ability of a business to tolerate shocks and maintain normal operations. Those shocks can be all sorts of things — IT failures, natural disasters, terrorism, cyberattacks — but they’re typically sudden shocks, happening within hours or even minutes, that threaten your company’s ability to provide whatever it is you provide to customers.

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