When Emergency Planners in Europe were developing their business plans it is unlikely that they were considering a volcano in Iceland. It is not actually critical to identify each and every risk... but to consider the operations that your organization depends on and their disruption.
European planners could have easily examined various transportation disruptions (for whatever reason) and looked at the implications. What if there is no air traffic for a week? What if there is no train traffic for a week? What if the main highway is blocked for a week? Regardless of the cause, one can start to look at the business continuity implications of various transportation risks, communications risks, other infrastructure failures, etc.
Attached is a link to an interesting article in the New Zealand news about an African organization looking at the impact of the Icelandic volcano on European business continuity planning (now if that is not a truly international series of linkages...).
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article466210.ece/Small-volcano-teaches-world-big-lesson
"The only thing that is certain is that there will be more crises, whether due to natural causes, climate change-related or man-made ones such as the recent financial crisis."
European planners could have easily examined various transportation disruptions (for whatever reason) and looked at the implications. What if there is no air traffic for a week? What if there is no train traffic for a week? What if the main highway is blocked for a week? Regardless of the cause, one can start to look at the business continuity implications of various transportation risks, communications risks, other infrastructure failures, etc.
Attached is a link to an interesting article in the New Zealand news about an African organization looking at the impact of the Icelandic volcano on European business continuity planning (now if that is not a truly international series of linkages...).
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article466210.ece/Small-volcano-teaches-world-big-lesson
"The only thing that is certain is that there will be more crises, whether due to natural causes, climate change-related or man-made ones such as the recent financial crisis."
