The BCPcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S4, Episode 7 - Crisis communications & cyber
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ove...
S4, Episode 6 - Trust the process: planning & exercising
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 exer...
S4, Episode 5 - Working in Business Continuity
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 4 - How to lead the crisis
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
S4, Episode 3 - Managing the crisis – who’s in charge?
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 2 - Business Continuity or Resilience?
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a shift in recent years away from “Business Continuity” to the more holistic “Resilience”. Is it just renaming and rebranding ...
S4, Episode 1 - Out of the Shadows
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The BCPcast Live - COVID - 19 Response
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 is the biggest continuity incident of our time. So we gathered together some of our favourite Business Continuity Podcast guests to review ...
S3, Episode 6 - How to have a successful Business Continuity career
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 5 - Why good Supply Chain Management is in short supply
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S3, Episode 4 - How to protect your reputation
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It takes years to build a reputation and seconds to ruin it. How can a company keep its reputation intact when things start to unravel, especially whe...
S3, Episode 3 - What does good plan preparation and execution look like?
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Without due diligence and testing and iterating, a plan that looks pretty on paper can have ugly consequences in the real world. What are the best exa...
S3, Episode 2 - How to tackle diversity in Business Continuity
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The call for greater diversity in people of different genders, race, sexual orientation and disability is dominating our conversations. The Business...
S3, Episode 1 - How to make people care about Business Continuity
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What are the best ways to engage people in Business Continuity? Let’s be honest, it’s not something that fills most people with excitement. But a ...
S2, Episode 8 - Tuba Gursoy
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by the stories we heard from Katherine Corbishley earlier in the season, we spoke to hospitality veteran Tuba Gursoy to find out what we can ...
S2, Episode 7 - John Robinson
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Another returning favourite, John Robinson is a Business Continuity consultant and the Managing Director of Inoni. In this episode we look at the impo...
S2, Episode 6 - Katherine Corbishley
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Corbishley is Business Continuity Supervisor at a large, global corporate law firm. We discuss her experience of dealing with power outages ...
S2, Episode 5 - Richard Bale
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Bale has had a storied career working for London Buses and major American banks in the city – as well as working for recovery providers on t...
S2, Episode 4 - Mel Gosling
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mel Gosling of Merrycon was another of our interviewees from season one. We invited him back to share recovery stories from his time as an IT Manager ...
S2, Episode 3 - Fiona Davidge
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Davidge is the Enterprise Risk Manager at the Wellcome Trust and this episode is a little different. We’re examining disruption and crisis man...
S2, Episode 2 - Vicki Gavin
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Vicki Gavin is Head of Business Continuity for The Economist and is a returning contributor from season one. In this episode we discuss some of the ma...
S2, Episode 1 - Alastair Lee
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the first episode of the second season of The BCPcast our guest is Alastair Lee. Alastair is one of the few people we spoke to who took an academ...
BCPcast Episode 6 - Box-tickers
23 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the 6th and final episode of series one of the BCPcast, we take a closer look at one of the areas that, to the uninitiated, often represents the mo...
BCPcast Episode 5 - Total Meltdowns and the Emergency Planner's Paradox
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 of the BCPcast investigates what happens when carefully laid, and well-rehearsed plans collide with reality. This one is about big disasters...
BCPcast Episode 4 - Plans are useless, planning is everything
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth episode of the BCPcast, we’re going to look at the point at which business continuity and disaster recovery stop existing as ideas and...
BCPcast Episode 3 - We're All Human, We're All Vulnerable
18 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 3 of the BCPcast, we take a look at a comparatively new source of risk that has landed in the lap of many already-overworked continuity pro...
BCPcast Episode 2 - Terrorists And Supermodels
05 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of the BCPcast we turn the tables, and examine why BC and DR have a reputation for being difficult and expensive among so many o...
BCPcast Episode 1 - An Aptitude For Disaster
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of the Business Continuity Podcast, we meet the people who keep some of the largest organisations in the UK running throughout di...
The Business Continuity Podcast – Preview
28 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 L...