Insights — Stacklane Group

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Twelve Documents Is Not a Programme

Most organisations have continuity plans. Fewer have a continuity capability. The difference is whether the facts behind the plan live in one place or twelve.

Stacklane Group16 Oct 20264 min read

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Industry

Audit-Ready Resilience for Financial Services

Regulators do not accept a plan that was accurate last quarter. What it takes to keep continuity evidence current enough to hand over on the day it is asked for.

16 Oct 20262 min read

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Industry

Closing the Resilience Gap in Manufacturing

Manufacturing risk sits in the joins — between supply chain, vendors, facilities and operations. Those are exactly the places a plant-by-plant continuity plan cannot see.

16 Oct 20262 min read

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Industry

Keeping Care Running Through Disruption

Ransomware has made continuity planning a clinical safety issue, not an IT one. What changes when the thing you are recovering is patient care.

16 Oct 20262 min read

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Industry

Retail Resilience and Keeping the Doors Open

Retail disruption is rarely one big event. It is a steady stream of small ones across stores, supply and systems — and the response has to be routine enough to survive them.

16 Oct 20262 min read

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Consulting

The Plan You Hope Never to Use

A continuity plan that has never been exercised is a document, not a capability. The gap between the two only shows up under load.

8 Aug 20262 min read

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Company

Introducing Our Delivery Lifecycle

We have published the four stages we run every engagement through — Discover, Design, Deliver, Evolve — and why the fourth one is the part most programmes skip.

6 Aug 20262 min read

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Technology

Modernising Without the Big Bang

Replacing a business-critical platform in one move is the option most often chosen and least often survived. The alternative is safer and less satisfying.

5 Aug 20262 min read

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Services

What Happens After Go-Live

Launch is a milestone for the project team and an ordinary Tuesday for everyone else. The next six months decide whether the platform survives its first year.

4 Aug 20262 min read

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Industry

The First Ten Minutes

When something goes wrong, the constraint is rarely the plan. It is whether the right people can be reached and whether anyone is recording what was decided.

1 Aug 20262 min read