Business continuity resources

Business Continuity planning for small businesses in a pandemic

– 11th May 2009

This article on WTOL 11 provides great tools for small businesses to use to be able to keep ahead of the possible effects of the current pandemic

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Financial Crisis Highlighting Benefits of Managing Risk, Cost Reduction and Effective Stakeholder Management

– 28th Jan 2009 by Raz Chaudary

Business Insurance Europe has conducted a panel interview comprising of insurance and risk management executives on the impact of the credit crunch upon businesses.

Short-term needs for credit to fulfil operational obligations have been identified as being much greater than ever to ensure future sustainability of businesses

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Essential Business Continuity Documents

– 6th Jan 2009 by Raz Chaudary

The London Resilience Team has compiled a useful resource of to-do lists for emergencies, staff contact trees, what to include in your ‘battle box’ and much more.

Take a look at the documents below for templates and advice for creating an effective business continuity plan… click on the links

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Business Continuity Survey

– 29th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs

The Disaster Resource Guide’s 2nd Annual Business Continuity Survey takes a look at the way businesses approached their Business Continuity plans in 2008 compared to 2007. Also included in the survey is an insightful look at trends into 2009.

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How prepared are you? A business continuity management toolkit may help…

– 4th Dec 2008 by Raz Chaudary

Business Continuity Management (BCM) helps to identify critical parts of an organisation that cannot be disrupted such as data, inventory, assets, employees and plans how to maintain these, in the likelihhod of incurring an incident

An appropriate response and business continuity plan can assist in enabling an enterprise to get back to business as quickly as possible.

The benefits of deploying an affective BCM plan efficiently can help in protecting brand reputation, avoid losing valuable market share to the competition and maintain customer confidence.

This toolkit developed by the UK Government guides you through the steps you will need to take to implement BCM in your organisation. It covers the six elements of the BCM lifecycle as defined in the Business Continuity
Management Standard (BS25999).

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Business Continuity Management Using the BS 25999 Standard

– 28th Nov 2008 by Raz Chaudary

BS 25999 Standard

The BS 25999 standard is intended to provide assistance to the person responsible for implementing business continuity management within an organization.It is broken into two parts.

For more information please click on the following link Business Continuity Management using BS 25999

The Emergence of BS25999
In November 2006 an official standard was published to replace PAS56. This was BS 25999 part 1.

Part 1: describes a framework and process for the Business Continuity practioner to use and offers a range of good practice recommendations.

It was produced through a Subcommittee comprising of British Standards Institution, representatives from a number of organizations and industry bodies.

A year later, in November 2007, a second part was published, stemming from the same subcommittee.

Part 2: can be used to assess an organization’s ability to meet regulatory and other requirements, and as such is the basis for certification.

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Business Continuity Tool: Delivering Upon your Stakeholder Promises

– 25th Nov 2008 by Raz Chaudary

ASIS International (ASIS) have developed a business continuity checklist as a tool to allow organizations to consider the factors and steps necessary to prepare for a crisis (disaster or emergency). It is designed to assess an organisation’s resilience to manage and survive the crisis and take all appropriate actions to maintain critical operational viability.

The checklist has applicability in both the private and public sector environments. and can assist in creating, testing, and maintaining an organization-wide plan for use in the event of a crisis that threatens the viability and continuity of the organization.

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The Seven Steps To Successful Business Continuity Communications

– 15th Nov 2008 by Raz Chaudary

To successfully communicate with relevant parties during critical events, organizations need a system that can enhance their preparedness and contribute to the overall security of human, physical, and information assets.

This special report by the Varolii Corporation provides an overview of common steps organizations are taking in order to connect, protect, and account for their people, while enabling response teams and decision makers to coordinate a successful recovery and help protect assets and infrastructure—even such things as supply chain and key customer relationships.

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What is the Business Continuity BS 25999 Standard?

– 1st Nov 2008 by Raz Chaudary

I found this particular website really useful and would like to share it with you…. BS 25999

What is BS25999?

BS25999 is a standard that establishes the process, principles and terminology of business continuity management.

Business Continuity Glossary
What Is Business Continuity Management
The Business Continuity Management Policy
BCM Programme Management
BS25999 Certification

BS25999 Part 2 is a Specification, not a Code of Practice like Part 1. So what is the difference?

Establish the BCMS [PLAN]
Implement and Operate BCMS [DO]
Monitor and Review the BCMS [CHECK]
Maintain and Improve the BCMS [ACT]
If you need to know more… please click on this link BS 25999

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Business Continuity Experts talk about the role of BC

– 14th Oct 2008 by Alex Briggs

Cheryl Vallender at www.disaster-resource.com has gotten a group of the world’s leading Business Continuity experts together to answer the question:

Where does Business Continuity Planning Belong in an Organization?

Cheryl’s article takes us right back to the beginning of Business Continuity through to taking a look at the current trends in global organisations.

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