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 Doug Henderson
The 21st century has brought businesses new threats, an increased demand for continuity of operations and a reliance on new technologies. Effective planning must address all of these constantly evolving factors. The three distinct but interdependent planning areas are often referred to as follows:
Emergency (or Incident) Response (or Crisis Management) Planning,
Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), and Information Technology (or Disaster Recovery) Planning.
(Added: 31-Mar-2005 Hits: 414)
By Disaster Recovery World.com
This is the process to be followed when your organisation's Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is tested, in order to assess its viability, and to ensure your staff are fully conversant with the proposals.
(Added: 29-Mar-2005 Hits: 635)
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.
(Added: 29-Mar-2005 Hits: 479)
By na
Executives are starting to confront the real chance of panicked workers, supply disruptions, and economic upheaval
(Added: 19-Jan-2006 Hits: 300)
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: 565)
By Steven Lewis, Ph.D.
During the last 20 years, we have worked with organizations ranging from Retailers to Universities, from Banks to Dairies, from insurance companies to local governments and beyond. In all of these situations, we have found that all planners, no matter how experienced and systematic they may be, tend to overlook certain items. Some of these are small, but crucial items which simply add insult to injury when disaster occurs, but other can threaten the survival of the organization.
(Added: 21-Mar-2005 Hits: 426)
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