Business Continuity Policy Template This template helps you define your business continuity program and associated objectives, including roles and responsibilities. Download Crisis Management Plan Template This template guides you through… Continue reading Download Your Planning Templates
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They Called Me ‘The Queen of Doom’
What a ridiculous title â âThe Queen of Doom.â But that was my unofficial designation when I worked for the largest insurance broker in the world some 20 odd years… Continue reading They Called Me ‘The Queen of Doom’
Business Continuity as a Business Strategy
A recent trip to a local grocery store demonstrated organizational understanding of business continuity. While checking out my grocery purchases the storeâs point-of-sale system went down. Sounds of angst reverberated… Continue reading Business Continuity as a Business Strategy
AlertMedia Improves Emergency Management with the Launch of Event Pages: Connecting People with Critical Information in Real-Time
AUSTIN, Texas â AlertMedia, the fastest-growing emergency mass notification software provider in the world, has improved how organizations manage and communicate emergencies. With the launch of Event Pages, organizations can instantly link their employees to… Continue reading AlertMedia Improves Emergency Management with the Launch of Event Pages: Connecting People with Critical Information in Real-Time
Disaster Recovery Planning in a VM Operating Environment
VM or Virtural Machine is an IBM operating system that runs on large scale IBM computers. Even though this article is directed to those who have VM, the methods and… Continue reading Disaster Recovery Planning in a VM Operating Environment
Crisis Management. Keeping A Company Strong in Times of Trouble
Companies generally prepare for emergencies by reviewing insurance policies, implementing back-up computer systems and installing sprinklers, while neglecting the human cost of a workplace crisis and its resulting impact on… Continue reading Crisis Management. Keeping A Company Strong in Times of Trouble
Contingency Planning Cycle
You attend a seminar on contingency planning and hear presentations such as “developing and maintaining your plan”, “testing your plan”, “business impact assessments”, and “lessons learned” from other people’
DR: How Do You Pay For It?
One aspect of disaster planning that seems somewhat overlooked is the question, How do you fund the recovery efforts? Recovering from a disaster requires a lot of unbudgeted funds which… Continue reading DR: How Do You Pay For It?
Prevent the Disaster, Forget the Recovery
Personal crystal balls are notoriously bad at predicting the future. They run on small number statistics, have ill-defined parameters, and small data banks incorporating elastic memories. The crystal balls are… Continue reading Prevent the Disaster, Forget the Recovery
Managing Change as Factor of Success
When I first started working in the business continuity planning industry over eight years ago, I sold contingency planning software tools. One of the buzzwords at the time was “relational… Continue reading Managing Change as Factor of Success