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.

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.

Disaster Recovery Planning

By University of Toronto.ca: If you are new to recovery planning, make sure that you research the subject thoroughly before embarking on a disaster recovery project. Consider engaging a consultant (internal or external to your organization) to help you in your project planning effort. Disaster recovery planning is not a two-month project, neither is it a project that once completed, you can forget about. An effective recovery plan is a live recovery plan. The plan must be maintained current and tested/exercised regularly

FEMA Mitigation Advice - Disaster Recovery

By Disaster Recovery World.com: Would you know what to do if an earthquake, flood, or hurricane hit you tomorro? Could your business survive? The resulting damage often goes beyond that of structure and contents. It means rebuilding costs, pressure on credit lines, loss of savings, out-of-work employees, all of which could be deadly to the future of your business. Your business operation can be interrupted by direct damages to your business location and equipment, or by failure of critical local infrastructures like electrical power, water supply and road systems.

Business Continuity Planning - All The Right Moves

Guidelines for Testing a Disaster Recovery Plan

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.

Critical Elements Of A Disaster Recovery and 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.

How to Avoid Confusion or Conflict and Gain Cooperation During A Crisis

By Cole Emerson: Planning for and managing disasters is very much like a military operation. Those at the front lines and in the midst of battle know the actual conditions with which they must deal. A Corporate Command Team located in the headquarters hundreds of miles away from the incident cannot possibly assess and respond to the incident as well as the on-site Command Team. The site must have the authority to make key decisions without requesting that authority for each action. This is not to suggest that the remote sites have carte blanche to do anything they want to do. Flexibility within pre-defined boundaries is the objective for establishing decision rights agreements during the crisis management or business continuity planning efforts.

Controlling the Process of Contingency Planning

By Michael W. Frishberg: Organizations spend thousands on contingency plan documentation, yet plan activation is infrequent. How is quality assured? What works best to train those needed for plan fulfillment (emergency or business response teams, etc)? Can training and plan maintenance be accomplished more effectively?

Communications and 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.

Continuity Of Operations In The 21st Century

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.

Disaster Contingency Planning: The Necessity for Print-to-Mail Operations

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.

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.

Protecting Data in Today's Fast-Paced

By Bud Stoddard: According to the author, on-line data back-ups are becoming the industry standard for companies serious about protecting their data. This article debunks three of the common myths surrounding on-line back-ups. Discussed is the cost, the security, and the capabilities of on-line back-ups.

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 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.

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