Business Continuity Planning
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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.
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.
(Added: 19-Jan-2006 Hits: 443)
By Gail Dutton
Fire, floods, tornadoes, and even long-term power outages aren%u2019t particularly likely, but companies prepare for them. It%u2019s time to update disaster-preparedness plans to include responses to biochemical terrorism.
(Added: 21-Mar-2005 Hits: 404)
By Pat McAnally, Bill DiMartini, George Hakun and Joe Riley
The use of ERP presents significant business continuity issues. Find out what you need to know about protecting your business, from Disaster Resource Guide. The potential dedfects in ERP fall into three general categories. They are: complexity, resources, and education.
(Added: 13-Feb-2006 Hits: 573)
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.
(Added: 29-Mar-2005 Hits: 588)
By Jim Richards
Until recently, print-to-mail operations were predominately mechanical, repetitious functions for printing variable data on preprinted forms, accumulating pages using routine barcode automation, inserting the accumulated pages into envelopes, metering the envelopes, sorting by zip codes and delivering to the U.S. Post Office. Print-to-mail disaster recovery only meant finding available floor space, hiring temporary laborers and installing similar off-the-shelf equipment. This dramatically changed in the mid-1980s when businesses had to reduce operating costs to be competitive.
(Added: 31-Mar-2005 Hits: 465)
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.
(Added: 4-Oct-2005 Hits: 507)
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