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The New Private Sector Preparedness Program (PS-Prep):
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by William Raisch | Articles | CommentsIn an era of just-in-time inventory policies, and increasing outsourcing of formerly internal business functions, firms are increasingly concerned about the preparedness of suppliers, especially those who provide mission-critical resources, some...
People, Processes, and Systems:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Alan Salkowitz | Articles | CommentsIn order to recover from an unforeseen event, people, processes, and systems must work together to restore business operations. This session will discuss how to integrate your business resumption and disaster recovery plan to produce a true end ...
Crisis Management:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Tom Serio | Articles | CommentsAttend this session to better understand the fundamentals of crisis management and what it is that you need to manage. Manage the expectations of upper management as well as your team leaders. Review actual crisis management configurations -- a ...
Is Continuity Worth It? ROI Tells the Story
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Phil Lambert | Articles | CommentsWe do BC, DR, and CM everyday. We get everything completed on time and within budget. We make it easy for the business units to work with us. We build plans. We test plans. We train people. We empower people. But when do we measure our results? ...
The Perfect Pandemic:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Stephen Hoffman | Articles | CommentsWhen the H1N1 2009 pandemic first emerged, it sickened thousands, but its relative mildness presented the perfect opportunity for organizational management to examine best practices and lessons gleaned from response to the virus’ spread. One yea...
Characteristics of a Resilient Organization
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Lynnda Nelson | Articles | CommentsThe need for organizational resilience has never been greater. Facing everything from hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, war, terrorism, cyber attacks, workplace violence, broken supply chains, pandemics, to questionable business practices, orga...
Pandemic Planning:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Mary Herbst | Articles | CommentsAttend this session to learn how a small insurance company in Minnesota implemented a business continuity practice around pandemic, and did it quickly! In under four months, 50 plans that encompassed the entire corporation were created and test...
Measuring Your BCM Program’s Effectiveness
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Cheyene Haase | Articles | CommentsHow can the effectiveness of your BCM program be measured? Is it through an ROI? If so, how can an ROI be measured? Or, is business continuity viewed as a cost of doing business? BC Management’s International Benchmarking Advisory Board has cho...
Strategic Crisis Leadership for Continuity Professionals
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Bruce T. Blythe | Articles | CommentsAt the heart of any crisis and business continuity 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...
Putting Theoretical Knowledge to the Test
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Geary W. Sikich Principal | Articles | CommentsThis presentation examines how practitioners, from responders to continuity planners, should deal with the unreported theory-practice divide that exists between actual response operations and the application of elements of less than practical em...
Best Practices for Communications in a Pandemic
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Debra Zoppy | Articles | CommentsDon’t miss this opportunity to share in the real-life experiences of Debra Zoppy, director of crisis management and business continuity, as she explains how the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America looked to emergency notification technolo...
The Next Generation Business Continuity Professional
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Tom Kristofco | Articles | CommentsHow has our profession evolved? What career path brought you to this place? What opportunities, experiences, education, and skill sets have delivered the most value to your position? What do you look for when hiring for your business continuity ...
Business Emergency Operations Centers:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Thomas Anderson | Articles | CommentsThis session explores the business emergency operations center (B-EOC). The B-EOC will work together with businesses, state, and local governments to identify gaps in regional preparedness and response capability, and then work together to fill ...
Effective Techniques for Measuring Continuity Risk
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Steven J. Ross, MBCP | Articles | CommentsRisk measurement is the necessary precursor of risk management. Simplistic formulas such as Risk = Probability x Impact are doomed by their vagueness and subjectivity. Precisely because disastrous events are so rare, probability models are ineff...
Changing Hats:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Susan Rogers | Articles | CommentsYou are a subject matter expert in business continuity, disaster recovery, or information security. This session will explore how you may chose to make the transition from operation implementer to risk management overseer and, in doing so, achie...
