COVID-19 and continuity planning: One university’s perspective

Anne-Marie Mclaughlin and Caleb Palley
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Anne-Marie Mclaughlin: NYU Department of Campus Safety, USA
Caleb Palley: Continuity Analyst, New York University Department of Campus Safety, USA

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2022, vol. 16, issue 2, 170-177

Abstract: In 2018, New York University shifted from conventional continuity of operations planning to what the team has dubbed ‘continuity for action’. Prior to 2018, business continuity efforts at the university were decentralised. Now, however, the university uses a relational database that allows data to be accessed quickly to meet the needs of an emergency. The migration of plans into this database has taken time, but the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the utility of the approach. This paper describes the university’s adoption of the ‘continuity for action’ approach and offers insights into how business continuity planning data plays a critical role in speeding an organisation from response into recovery.

Keywords: resiliency; higher education; continuity; compliance; emergency management; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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