UK failure on risk planning puts supply chains in danger
3 April 2012
Crises such as the fuel protests and the foot and mouth outbreak caused chaos at more than one in four UK organisations in the past five years, according to a wide-ranging report.
But nearly a third have no business continuity plan to keep running if disasters strike, the Chartered Management Institute found.
The institute also discovered that less than 10 per cent of firms that outsource facilities or services insist that suppliers plan for risks when drawing up contracts.
In the survey of 674 managers in the public and private...