Business Continuity Planning

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. 

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Disaster Recovery - Ostrich Syndrome By Disaster Recovery World.com The ostrich is alleged to hide its head in the ground when a threat is suspected on the theory that if the threat can't be observed, it isn't there. Whether the "ostrich" is an airline security expert or a Business Continuity "client," the bottom line is the same: a disaster waiting to happen. I always am amazed when someone hires a Subject Matter Expert and then ignores the expert's advice. Yes, I now know there are "experts" and there are "experts." Just as dangerous is to accept advice and even implement corrective measures but only for a short period. ERP and Business Continuity: 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. 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. How to Involve the Business to Create a Solid Continuity Plan - Editorial - CIO By CARRIE MATHEWS Best practices for CIOs for not only making sure technical disaster-recovery plans are in place and working but also coordinating larger continuity efforts with all business functions. Business Continuity: Publish or Perish? By Philp Jan Rothstein, FBCI The author of this article talks about the lack of published material about the business continuity process and how detrimental it is to improving the process. Here is a quote from the article: As an industry and profession, Business Continuity has, to date, done a lackluster job of building a common body of knowledge. As George Santayana (1863 - 1952) observed, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." In the field of Business Continuity, I might rephrase this to %u201Cthose who cannot learn from the experiences - and mistakes - of others are doomed to repeat them. Seven Items Often Overlooked in Disaster Planning 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. (www.work911.com)

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