Is Your Toolbox Missing Consultants?

Efficiently Building a Preparedness Capability While You Manage the Program Consultants are a key staffing tool that should be part of every organization’s toolbox to address resource constraints. Clearly, some organizations are appropriately staffed to address the development, management, and continuous improvement of business continuity programs. However, many have too much work for too few… Continue reading Is Your Toolbox Missing Consultants?

Standards of Progress

DRI International has been highly involved in the development of standards in emergency/disaster and business continuity management in the US and abroad. As part of our mission DRI International serves as an information center in providing the best information on this subject for our certified professionals, auditors and vendors as well as public , private… Continue reading Standards of Progress

Maintaining Efficiency in a Mission-Critical World

Energy consumption has become a hot topic in the data center industry over the past few years. According to survey results from the Data Center Users’ Group – an organization of data center managers and decision-makers – power usage of data centers (average kW use per rack) jumped 23 percent from 2006 to 2009, and… Continue reading Maintaining Efficiency in a Mission-Critical World

Testing Plans: The Challenges

Recently I was having a discus- sion with a fellow crisis manage- ment and business continuity profes- sional regarding the challenges that organizations face with respect to testing plans. Testing BC/DR, crisis management or any response plan, and personnel is often low down on the list of “things to do.” However, with recent crises such… Continue reading Testing Plans: The Challenges

The Unique Role of Business Continuity in Police Operations

The root of business continuity planning relies heavily on external emergency assistance in event response. This is prevalent in all planning functions where often one of the first tasks is activation of police, fire, and medical assistance. This places emergency services in a unique position from a continuity of operations perspective. Within this challenge lies… Continue reading The Unique Role of Business Continuity in Police Operations

The Debate About Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

In February 2010, Forrester Research found that 86 percent of surveyed North American and European IT professionals were categorically not interested in or had no plans to implement hosted cloud storage. Curiously, in that same survey Forrester found that 50 percent of all respondents were either interested in or had already implemented backup-as-a-service. According to… Continue reading The Debate About Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Innovative Enterprise Risk Management Tools

Risk Potential for exposure to loss which can be determined by using either qualitative or quantitative measures Risk Assessment Process of identifying the risks to an organization, assessing the critical functions necessary for an organization to continue business operations, defining the controls in place to reduce organization exposure and evaluating the cost for such controls.… Continue reading Innovative Enterprise Risk Management Tools

Enhancing Mass Notification Through the Power of Location

Emergencies come in all shapes and sizes. Some impact just a few people; others can crash an entire organization. Regardless of the nature or scale, one important key to maintaining business resiliency and continuity is to quickly and accurately communicate to everyone affected. One positive outcome from the recent spate of exceptional natural and man-made… Continue reading Enhancing Mass Notification Through the Power of Location