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Business Continuity Planning
Business continuity planning involves creating a plan to minimize the effects of an interruption to an organization's operations in the event of natural disaster or other disruption to one or more critical business functions or resources. Learn how.
Data Backup Is The Best Data Protection
By Susan Ward:
Every small business has data that needs to be protected, such as customer records, marketing plans and accounting ledgers. Much of this data is computerized, which one would think would make the archiving and backup of business data easier. But for many businesses, data protection is very much a hit or miss affair, done sometimes or not at all.
Boosting BCP - Business Continuity Planning
By Maria Wakem:
Tragedies like the London bombings will serve as unfortunate reminders that financial institutions must continue to be vigilant in their business continuity planning and to improve IT's role therein.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Business Impact Analysis (Expert Information)
By Robert Mahood:
Why add a business impact analysis function to your disaster recovery (or business continuity) planning? This article demonstrates how this step can enhance your business continuity planning process. See how identifying business risks can help you continue business more quickly after a disaster.
Outsourcing Business Continuity
By David Honour:
Should you decide to outsource the business continuity of some of your company's functions? If yes, what measures can you take to ensure that your outsourcer will assure the continuity of your outsourced function? Learn what's involved when you choose to outsource business continuity.
Disaster Resource - The Big Picture
By Ben Taylor:
The "big picture" for planning and managing emergencies is similar, whether you%u2019re working for business or for government, two sectors which are highly interdependent, no more so than during a disaster.
%u2022 The goal is survival with minimal losses and prompt recovery to normal operations.
%u2022 The needs are mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and continuity.
%u2022 The key ingredients are top-level commitment, teamwork and thoughtful analysis.
%u2022 The tools are planning, cooperation and backup.
BCP - Business Continuity Planning - Expect the Unexpected
By Paul Allen:
Whatever strategy organizations employ, it is clear that business continuity planning will require a long-term commitment. The London bombings may not lead to a material change in regulatory policies or institutions' internal plans, but they already have turned up the pressure for financial services firms to get their plans in order.
Communications & Systems Business Continuity Assessment
By Judy K. Bell:
This is an excellent planning tool for your business continuity planning activities. Use this questionnaire to help you develop your corporation's business continuity plan.
Do You Have The One Key Ingredient Necessary For Disaster Recovery? (Expert Information)
By Renee Rich:
This article espouses the virtues of having a plan in place to recover from a disaster dealt t your small business. Included are some basic questions you need to answer to determine the sort of plans required.
Emergency Response Planning for Schools
By Douglas Henderson, FSA , CBCP:
Teachers and staff are frequently the initial responders to an emergency situation. In particular, teachers are viewed as role models and leaders by their students. In an emergency situation students will likely follow the advice of their teachers and other adults. Yet very few of these initial responders have any formal training in emergency response.
Critical Elements Of A Disaster Recovery & Business/Service Continuity Plan
By Pat Moore:
The numerous community-wide disasters, as well as singular disasters that municipalities, institutions, businesses and government agencies have suffered in the last dozen or so years have shown us that planning for disaster recovery only is simply not enough. We must also plan beyond the emergency response phase for business and service resumption and continuity. In addition to planning for the recovery of critical information services and applications, we must address equally important issues such as human resources, vital records, telecommunications, risk management, loss control, security, environmental concerns, and the facility which houses the work environment itself.
Most Companies Ill Prepared for Pandemic
By David Needle:
A new Basex report says that most large companies don't have the right policies to handle extended absenteeism and other pandemic related issues.
Five Steps to Protect Your Business System from a Disaster (Expert Advice)
By David McCullough:
The details of creating a disaster recovery team that will develop a disaster recovery plan and test it, communicate it, and finally implement it are discussed. Learn how you can implement your business disaster recovery plan.
It's A Crisis If There's No Plan (free advice on disaster recovery and planning)
By Martin Cohn:
Bad things can happen to any company. Hardware fails. Natural disasters happen. The thing is that if bad things happen and there's no plan to cope, then it's a crisis. A well planned strategy to deal with problems turns crisis into safety.
Business Continuity Planning - All The Right Moves
By Disaster Resource.com:
Everywhere in today's business environment there are threatening concerns - of natural disasters, of man-made incidents both intentional and accidental, of power outages and telecommunications failures%u2026and scores of other perplexities. To countermand these concerns, one needs a business continuity strategy - an overarching plan based on the ability to anticipate, to assess the measure of an opponent, and to know where threats (both internal and external) lie.
Business Continuity Planning Is Not A Project
By Monica Zein, Sally Cohn, Tracy Broadway:
It is often thought that Business Continuity Planning is a project with a finite ending. Not so! Creating the Business Continuity Plan is just a part of developing a business recovery program. The process also includes evaluating costs, selecting an alternate site(s), making employees aware of the Plan, updating the Plan and testing the Plan on a regular basis.
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Updated On:
11-May-2012
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