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Now that You're Good At Measuring Compliance, Start Measuring Capabilities
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Joe Jurchak Director of BC Management | Articles | CommentsNinety-three percent of your IT systems passed their recovery test and 99 percent of your plans had annual maintenance applied on time. Does this mean you are ready? Are you as resilient as the business requires? This session illustrates commo...
Objectively Evaluate (and Potentially Overhaul) Your Program
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Mark Armour | Articles | CommentsChances are you have some kind of program in place, but does it just need tweaking, or does it require a serious overhaul? How do you build support for a program that was previously viewed as sub-par by clients and peers? Countrywide Financial C...
The Secrets to Successful Recruiting Revealed
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Cheyene Haase | Articles | CommentsHiring BC professionals is not easy. Staffing miscalculations can and do cause continuity programs to fail. This session will help you intelligently profile your staffing needs, develop a definitive job description, identify mandatory talents, s...
Come Together:
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Andrew Cohen | Articles | CommentsLegal and IT departments must work in unison to ensure that appropriate record retention and archival practices are in place in order to adhere to regulatory requirements and litigation best practices. In addition, the new Federal Rules of Civil...
Sanity Check:
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by R. Andrew Fernandes | Articles | CommentsThe types of business interruptions that any organization faces today are complex and unpredictable. This has left both planners and executives scratching their heads and wondering where start and how much is really enough? This session will pr...
Business Continuity Management Program Requirements, Benchmarking Results, and Leading Practices
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Marty Plevel | Articles | CommentsEnterprises today are facing the challenges of building and sustaining a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program that supports the resiliency and continuity of operations needs of their organization and interdependent stakeholders. In this...
Understanding Your Production and Recovery Vulnerabilities
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Charles Iannuzzelli | Articles | CommentsThis session will explore the value of conducting a vulnerability analysis report (VAR) to identify potential exposures that may threaten the availability of technical services within the production environment or the recoverability of critical operations at an alternate recovery facility.
Developing Partnerships with Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services for Achieving Business Continuity Success
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Bill Lowe | Articles | CommentsLocal emergency response personnel represent an underutilized resource for developing business continuity scenarios and response plans that benefit all stakeholders. This session offers attendees a comprehensive review of the capabilities, equip...
What Katrina Taught the Red Cross
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Kay W. Wilkins | Articles | CommentsThe American Red Cross has helped people help their neighbors for 125 years. Last year, victims of a record 72,883 disasters turned to the nearly 1 million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross for help. Through more than 800 local ch...
Business Impact Analysis:
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Barry A. Cardoza | Articles | CommentsSome regulations have become more specific about stating what a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) must include. But they still don’t give any clear instruction regarding how to collect or analyze the BIA data. Neither do they describe what the fin...
The Real “ROI” for BCP
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by John M. Stagl | Articles | CommentsFor some time now we in the business continuity profession have read and heard countless dissertations on how to develop and calculate a positive return on investment (ROI) to justify the business continuity planning effort within our comp...
Crisis Management -
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Ian M. Steinberg Global Crisis Management Expert | Articles | CommentsAs organizations continue to face a growing number of threats, they are beginning to realize the costly, far-reaching impacts on their people, their customers, their operations, their economic base and their day to day lives of either not being ...
BCP: The Next Generation
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Gerald Lewis | Articles | CommentsBusiness continuity, while no longer in it's infancy, has certainly not attained a level of full maturity. Most practitioners have journeyed from a myriad of jobs and educations to arrive in their current position. No one went to college and maj...
Ready or Not? Identifying (And Filling) Critical Gaps in Private Sector Disaster Preparedness
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Harrison Lobdell | Articles | CommentsFive years after the attacks of 9/11 and a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, disaster preparedness is both a buzzword and a household word. But are we truly prepared for a large-scale disaster? A recent survey shows that while most compani...
Making Sense of Measurement Methods
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Adam Levison Senior Vice President | Articles | CommentsMeasuring program effectiveness includes a number of critical activities, among them quality control, budget justification, staffing adjustments, continuous improvement, return on investment, and risk management (to name a few). This session wi...
