Forthcoming content

Each volume of Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning consists of four quarterly 100 page issues. A selection of the peer-reviewed articles and real-world case studies scheduled for Volume 20 includes:

Does strong risk management necessarily lead to improved resilience?

Diane Doering, Global Head, Enterprise Risk Management, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Cool initiatives: Rethinking heat response in New York City

Christina Farrell, Commissioner, and Nancy Silvestri, Senior Advisor, NYC Emergency Management Department

A strategic analysis of operational resilience and the mandate for anti-fragility: Integrating agentic artificial intelligence within volatile financial ecosystems

Mohammed Randeree, Head of Operational Resilience & Third Party Risk Management, Atom Bank

Operationalising compassion at scale: Paediatric reunification as a core business continuity function in healthcare–education systems

Shadlie Kensrue, Director of Health Services, Irvine Unified School District, and Christopher Riccardi, Manager, Emergency Management & Business Continuity, Rady Children’s Health

How to identify and prioritise critical business services to reduce complexity and improve resilience

Ayse Tuncman, Managing Director – Enterprise Resiliency Office, State Street

Cognitive biases and how they impact what we do in emergencies

Ken Jones, Senior Specialist, Crisis Management & Business Continuity, TC Energy

How the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is using clinician integration to strengthen business continuity development

Raynooka Kabir, Business Continuity Analyst, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Strengthening resilience through business continuity and IT alignment

Jennifer Park, Associate Director, Global Business Resiliency, Boston Scientific

Rising biosecurity threats: Insights from Queensland’s approach to advancing response readiness

Rachel Chay, Deputy Director-General and Chief Biosecurity Officer, Michael Reid, General Manager – Plant Biosecurity & Product Integrity, and Marni Manning, Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Primary Industries (Queensland)

Measuring organisational resilience: Why definitions, scope and adaptive capability matter

John Corless, Director, JG Corless Consulting

Social and health inequities for disability populations in disasters and strategies for improving outcomes

Dee Grimm, CEO/President, Tenebo Enterprises and Consulting, and Dawn Skaggs, Chief Program Officer, World Institute on Disability

Case study: Huntington Hospital’s lockdown for an active shooter threat

Janet Henderson, Director, Emergency Services, Trauma Services, Pre-Hospital Care, Huntington Hospital

How to prioritise critical services and allocate resilience resources effectively for the dynamic risk landscape

Robert Pence, Sr. Manager, Head of IT Resilience and Preparedness, CSAA Insurance Group

How the Calwood Fire was used as an opportunity to improve planning, coordination, and response to large-scale emergencies

Ryan Singer, Coordinator, Boulder Office of Disaster Management

Integrating the Recovery Operability Objective concept

Vella Garrett, Office of Risk Management, Associate Director – BCM & ERM, The Ohio State University

How to turn continuity playbooks into practiced and reliable response mechanisms

Gamze Yurttutan, Vice President, Risk & Resilience Products Global Lead, Mastercard

The design, implementation, and impact of MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Business Continuity Leads and Champions Program

Angela Cone, Emergency Readiness Specialist, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Reinventing internal controls for agility and real-time assurance

Amro Shawli, Chief Governance, Risk & Control Officer-CET, Western Region, Bupa Arabia

Ready when technology fails: One hospital’s comprehensive multi-year project to improve readiness and staff confidence in EMR downtime response

Vicky Olson, Program Manager, Emergency Management, and Erika Cheung, Manager, Emergency Management, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Contractual fitness for operational resilience in critical third party services

Hilary Jewhurst, Director, and Heather Kadavy, Director, Third Party Risk Association

From the ground up: A practitioner framework for co-designing community emergency hubs

Paul Cull, PhD candidate, Adriana Keating, Research Fellow, and Carlyn Muir, Associate Director, Accident Research Centre, Monash University

Building a pediatric mass casualty dream team: Moving hospital readiness from plans to performance

Michele Tanton, Emergency Preparedness Manager, St. Louis Children’s Hospital

The new resilience imperative: Upskilling business continuity in a technology-driven world

Aubrey Wade, VP, Disaster Recovery, Regions Bank

Building community strength in times of crisis: Developing recovery frameworks for mass violence, mass casualty, and mass fatality incidents

Joycelyn Fankhouser, Emergency Coordinator, Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Division, Boulder County Office of the County Administrator, Clessie Anderson, Emergency Management Specialist, Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management, El Paso County, Colorado, and Jocelyn Rosado, Emergency Management Specialist, El Paso County Public Health

Beyond the questionnaire: Building third-party risk management as an enterprise resilience function

Sarah Gucciardo, Senior Information Security Analyst, Morgan Street Holdings

Lessons learned from a multi-agency, multi-jurisdiction mass casualty incident

Kevin Wowk, Senior Advisor, Emergency Management, and Sean Kelly, Senior Advisor, Emergency Management, ALTA Paramedic Health

From compliance to resilience: A risk-based framework for business continuity maturity assessment

Kristin Gustafson, Senior Business Continuity Director, MSU Federal Credit Union

Operational resilience in times of polycrisis: What to do now?

Michael Ehrnsperger, Head of Group Protection & Resilience, Allianz

Decision integrity under attack: Artificial Intelligence and the future of business continuity planning

Steven Haynes, Director of Cybersecurity & Risk Management Program, Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas

Orchestrating efforts to strengthen risk management: Building a resilient organisation

Beth Frasure, Risk and Compliance Advisor Lead, Enterprise Technology Risk Management, and Adam Little, IT/IS Risk Management Principal, USAA

Case study: The Huntington Hospital-Eaton Canyon fire

Jennifer Waldron, Disaster Program Manager, Business Continuity Planner, and Ryan Speicher, Manager, Emergency Services, Huntington Hospital

24 hours, one catastrophic category 5 hurricane: Rapid crisis mobilisation during Otis’s explosive intensification

Mario Franco, Security Director for Mexico & CA, NAM Operation, Schneider Electric