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Testing Your Operational Readiness Preparedness with Outside Agencies
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Tom Clark | Articles | CommentsOnce an operational readiness level has been reached a level of maturity within a corporation, it makes sense to improve your continuity capability by interjecting as much realism as possible into the exercise scenario, including the participati...
How to Implement an Enterprise Risk Management Program When You Are a Business Continuity Manager
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Randy Burdette | Articles | CommentsMore and more business continuity planners are being asked to implement enterprise risk management programs as companies try to do more with less resources but need to manage greater levels of risk. This is exactly what happened when at the Virg...
Strategic Continuity
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Phil Lambert | Articles | CommentsHaving plans and planning are quite different from having a BC program. A program includes a program charter, policies, a strategic plan, a tactical plan, a maturity model, and measurable matrices to ensure that measurable progress is made in a ...
The Value of Risk Management: Transforming Business Resiliency
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Mary Herbst | Articles | CommentsThis session addresses the need of all organizations to transform risk management into a significant competitive advantage. Risk management, business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery must be addressed holistically as resilien...
Ethical Issues in Business Continuity Management
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by John Orlando Program Director for MS in Business Continuity Management | Articles | CommentsAs the duties of the business continuity manager continue to grow, so do the number of ethical issues he or she encounters. A number of codes of conduct have emerged recently to guide the continuity professional, but the important ethical issues...
Lessons from a Regional Health Authority’s Pandemic Influenza Exercises
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Margaretha Lundh | Articles | CommentsThis presentation will walk audience members through two successful large-scale pandemic influenza exercises conducted by Fraser Health, one of Canada’s largest health care organizations, in 2006 and 2007. The session will focus on the lessons l...
Your Plan Stinks! How to Say Goodbye to Bad Plans
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Mark Eggleston and Lisa Jones | Articles | CommentsBusiness continuity planning has typically been a cumbersome and slow process. Surveys breed discontent from users from the inception of the planning process. The end product of large plans that users see little value in does little to endear t...
Ten Minutes to a Culture of Continuity
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Bill Lang | Articles | CommentsLearn ways to start, maintain, and measure your organizations culture of continuity. Overcome people’s disassociation with something that may never happen to them by making it real. Address the lack of time with concise exercises and tests. Meas...
Who's Really In Control?
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by William Marotz | Articles | CommentsDisaster strikes and you need to begin execution of your response/recovery plan. You think you have all the bases covered, but then the police and fire department shows up and you find yourself unable to fully execute the steps you so carefully ...
The Asia BCP Update
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Nathaniel Forbes | Articles | CommentsWith so many multi-national organizations based in the U.S. and significant supply chain issues, it is more important then ever to understand the state of business continuity in Asia. This session will explore case studies (Asia tsunamis, earthq...
My Career: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Doug Sievers | Articles | CommentsIn this presentation, the speaker will share the evolution of his career in business continuity, then present and discuss the various alternatives within the broader realm of incident preparedness. From there, the session will cover specific tac...
Incident Management in Private Corporations: An Eight-Step Process
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Dennis Morgan CBCP, Asst. Vice President Security Services | Articles | CommentsAs private corporations meet the expectations of PL 110-53 and voluntarily adopt an all hazards approach to their business continuity program, they find that a direct adoption of NIMS and ICS may not easily fit their corporate environment. Unlik...
Gaining Competitive Advantage and the Myth Of the Resiliency Paradox
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Dennis Wenk Advisory Solution Architect | Articles | CommentsWhat makes resiliency investments so difficult? How can we overcome the pitfalls associated with reducing operational risk optimally? Attend this informative session for the answers to those questions and more. Attendees will learn how to gain ...
DRII Certification: My Experience
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Raymond Seid | Articles | CommentsAre you overwhelmed with the DRI International certification process? Are you confident that you have enough experience in the professional practices but aren’t sure what the next steps would be? Are you somewhere between the ACP and CBCP proce...
Mergers and Acquisitions: Is Your Crisis Management Plan Ready for Day One?
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Margaret Millet | Articles | CommentsYour company is going through a merger or acquisition and you are the business continuity manager responsible for getting the crisis management plan updated for day one “go live.” Do you know the key crisis management questions to ask the acqui...
