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Conducting the Perfect Tabletop Exercise
April 24, 2007 8:00 pm | by Rich Schiesser | Articles | CommentsHow many times has this happened to you? You prepare for weeks to conduct or participate in what you hope to be a successful tabletop exercise, and on the day of the exercise everything goes wrong. Attendees show up late or not at all. Your scen...
Small and Medium-Sized Continuity in Katrina:
April 24, 2007 8:00 pm | by Cherie Courseault Trumbach | Articles | CommentsThere is no shortage of advice on Disaster Planning and Recovery. However, there is little research to determine which factors are the most important. The presentation reports on results from a survey of small and medium-sized businesses in the ...
Making the Business Case for Resilience
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Steven Ross | Articles | CommentsSummary: Many companies today are going beyond recoverability to enable themselves to continue operations seamlessly should there be a local disruption. This implies IT and communications resilience and also means that companies must adjust the ...
Surefire Risk Management Project Implementation
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Irene Rozansky | Articles | CommentsWant a sure-fire way to create and implement a risk management project? Then attend this session. Organizations must understand and effectively manage risk as they develop and execute strategies to achieve business resilience. Creating an effect...
Critical Success Factors in a Complex BCP Development Environment
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Don Groth | Articles | CommentsThe development of business continuity plans in any organization can be a challenge. This case study looks at the successful development of business continuity plans at a complex medical system. The system includes a large 414-bed academic medic...
Are You Really Ready to Lead During a Crisis?
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Bruce T. Blythe | Articles | CommentsAt the heart of any crisis response are strategic decisions that will serve as “defining moments.” These strategic decisions have the critical power to bring you and your organization swiftly toward successful resolution, or they can spiral you ...
Managing Up and Down During a Crisis
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Kevin Cassidy | Articles | CommentsDuring any crisis, your plan needs to be communicated to senior managers and employees. But does your plan translate well up and down your organization? Organizations have begun to pay close attention to crisis management over the past five year...
Plan to Communicate, Communicate the Plan
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Stephen T. Gore | Articles | CommentsYour business continuity plans have been polished and tested. But if nobody in your organization knows about them, it doesn’t matter how good they are. The critical role of communications in business continuity planning and emergency management ...
Is Your Program an Effective Selling Point?
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Telva E. Chase | Articles | CommentsA highly effective continuity program is one that helps attract clients to your company. Is your program effectively leveraged with existing and potential clients? How much should you disclose about your program? What recovery service levels c...
Cutting-edge QA Program at National City Bank
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Leslie Mahorney | Articles | CommentsDuring this session, attendees will learn how National City Bank employees -- charged with the design, implementation and execution of the corporate contingency planning (CCP) quality assurance (QA) program -- got the job done. Federal Reserve ...
An Integrated Approach to Continuity Metrics and Progress Reporting (Case Study)
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Chris Glebus | Articles | CommentsWith $9.5 trillion in assets under custody and $1.4 trillion under management, State Street Corporation is a world leader in financial services. Attend this session to hear how State Street took its business continuity program to the next step b...
A Tabletop Exercise Becomes Reality:
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Kevin Chenowith | Articles | CommentsOn June 28, 2006, The Vanderbilt University Medical Center disaster recovery team conducted a tabletop exercise to address a number of known issues using a scenario based on a real event that happened at another hospital. Three weeks following t...
Raising the Bar on Testing
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by John M. Hayes | Articles | CommentsHow closely do your tests (or exercises) resemble an actual response and recovery event? Is IT still tested separately from crisis management and work area recovery? Opportunities abound for increasing the effectiveness of testing over time. T...
Public/Private Partnerships:
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Tom Serio | Articles | CommentsCoordination between private businesses and the public sectors – before and after an event – is more critical now then ever. Public entities sometimes don’t know who the major employers in their area are, what resources they have to help the pl...
Establishing a Sustainable Crisis Management Program:
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Howard Mannella | Articles | CommentsEstablishing a successful and sustainable, scalable crisis management program requires more than crisis management expertise. It requires the management consulting skills necessary to effect change and get the program off the ground. Business ...
