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Business Continuity Tool: Delivering Upon your Stakeholder Promises

25th Nov 2008

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

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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Australian Business Continuity Expo

1st Nov 2008

Australian Business Continuity Expo

Event: 27th November 2008, St Kilda Parkview Hotel, Melbourne.

Region: Asia

Country: Australia

Continuity Forum has announced that it is launching a new event, ‘The Business Continuity Expo’. This will provide a venue for Australian business continuity companies to showcase their latest products and services.

The Business Continuity Expo is a great place to showcase your latest products and services. It is designed to provide delegates with the latest updates in the business continuity sector in our region.

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US Department of Homeland Security Selects ANAB for Preparedness Program

27th Oct 2008

According to the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has named ANAB to operate a new program to accredit and certify private sector entities for emergency preparedness.

Through formal certification businesses and non-profit organisations will be able to demonstrate their compliance with voluntary preparedness and business continuity standards and requirements.

“This program recognizes the importance of up-front planning to ensure business continuity even when calamitous events occur,” said Connie Conboy- Chair of ANAB’s Board

“It will facilitate the application of national and international standards in support of U.S. private sector homeland security preparedness requirements. The awarding of the contract to ANAB is consistent with our existing operations as an accreditation body for various management systems standards.”

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Business Continuity Risks for China, India and Asia overall

27th Oct 2008

According to Forbes Calamity Prevention “the business impact of planning to mitigate, respond to and recover from earthquakes will be significant all over Asia, even if no more earthquakes occur for many years.”
Recent earthquakes around the Pacific Rim in the last four months have registered 6.0 or higher on the Richter scale, the magnitude at which earthquakes are generally considered destructive.

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Business Continuity… Competitive Advantage for GOODYEAR

6th Oct 2008

According to Robert J. Keegan,the Chairman and CEO of Goodyear, enacting company’s integrated strategic business continuity plans in advance of the hurricane has minimised business impact and the management process is recognised as a competitive advantage. Goodyear relied on the process to ensure the supply chain maintained the delivery of critical raw materials to all of its’ tyre manufacturing facilities.

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Business’ Top 10 risks identified

2nd Oct 2008

Reseach identifies the top 10 strategic risks for global supply chains and businesses. Are you ready for the highlighted five fastest-rising threats that could also have a significant impact over the next three to five years?

According to Ernst & Young’s report, they highlight regulatory and compliance as the highest risks followed closely by global financial shocks, workforce and consumer aging, and the rise of emerging markets.

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Business Continuity Planning and Pandemic Influenza in Europe

29th Sep 2008

According to recent research conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Business Continuity Planning and Pandemic Influenza in Europe“, it was identified that by far, most strategic and operational efforts have been directed towards building resilience in public health systems, and have overlooked the challenge of ensuring business continuity in independent [...]

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$300m IBM Investment in Business Continuity and Resiliency Services via 13 Global Data Centres in 10 Countries

26th Sep 2008

IBM has spotted an opportunity to fulfil growing global demand from businesses and governments to avoid, prepare and recover operations from disruption.

This is the biggest investment IBM has yet made in this area, according to Brian Reagan, who directs the company’s global strategy and portfolio management group.
IBM provides data storage on as-needed basis. In the event of a service disruption, the company said its datacentres would be able to electronically process the shift in information from customer sites in order to restore service in a reasonable amount of time.

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The Corporate Water Footprint Summit 2008

Event: 16th Dec 2008 – 17th Dec 2008

Measuring Your Water Footprint and Identifying Water Usage Hotspots – Both Internally & Across The Supply Chain – To Assess Risks, Reduce Costs & Guarantee Business Continuity.

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