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Business Continuity Management Plan: A License to Protect

– 8th Dec 2008 by Raz Chaudary

An unimaginable event occurred at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in downtown Mumbai in India on the evening of November 26, 2008.

Terrorists forced their way into the rear entrance of the 105-year-old historic building built by the great grandfather of the CEO of Tata Motors. The magnificent hotel symbolises the success and pride of one of India’s largest private businesses. The capability of the hotel to protect its customers and its reputaion was challenged.

How do you manage your business through a fuel crisis?

– 5th Dec 2008 by Raz Chaudary

This UK Cabinet Office guidance document written by the department of Energy and Climate Change is intended to assist organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors in planning for and managing the consequences of a disruption to fuel supplies.

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).

What’s the link between a pandemic, energy, and the global just-in-time supply chain?

– 25th Nov 2008 by Raz Chaudary

According to a report by the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP), a scenario is outlined where a pandemic disrupts the supply chain for coal, providing electricity and a critical element to support public health and organizational continuity.

The report suggests the next pandemic is likely to impact the global just-in time economy and will seriously compromise the public health response. The unavailability of skilled manpower will be unable to meet the surge of demand and ultimately restrict international and domestic travel/trade agreements.

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.

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.

Business Continuity Success… Action Dependant

– 9th Oct 2008 by Raz Chaudary

According to a Stratus Technologies survey, twenty percent of organizations with business continuity plans have no idea if they will actually work in a crisis because they’ve never tested the plans.

86 percent believe that a business continuity plan is a significant strategic advantage.
76 percent business continuity was a strategic priority for of the companies surveyed,
69 percent follow a business continuity plan;
45 percent test business continuity plans them more than once a year.
35 percent tested yearly
20 percent not at all.

Business Continuity… Competitive Advantage for GOODYEAR

– 6th Oct 2008 by Raz Chaudary

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.

Business Continuity Planning and Pandemic Influenza in Europe

– 29th Sep 2008 by Raz Chaudary

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 [...]

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

– 26th Sep 2008 by Raz Chaudary

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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