Issue Archive: July/August 2008
Cover Story
Buffy Rojas
Running a small business and building business continuity plans are not mutually exclusive, says Devin Kimble, founder of MENU Group. The Singapore-based food and beverage company serves thousands of customers daily and now counts BCP as part of its strategy for success. "Business continuity may not be an urgent concern [for SMBs]", says Kimble, "but that doesn't mean it isn't very important."
Photos courtesy of MENU Group
Features
Continuity Insights Staff
By now infamous, the "Framework for Voluntary Preparedness" seeks to provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with private sector input into the creation of a voluntary private sector preparedness program. This yet-to-be formed program is called for by Title IX of the U.S. federal law "Implementing Recommen-dations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007."
Continuity Insights Staff
We surveyed our readers and interviewed leading vendors and experts to bring you the latest on the emergency notification and communication sector. What's new? What's next? And how can you tell one vendor from another? Read on.
Brian Zawada
At the Continuity Insights Management Conference in New Orleans in May, an attendee (relatively new to the profession) began a discussion with me regarding some of the key skills and experiences necessary to be effective in business continuity management. Although the answer is somewhat dependent on the industry and the organization’s specific objectives, one thing’s for certain — there is a growing number of business processes and practices that a business continuity professional must have either a working knowledge of, or some exposure to, in order to be successful. The following four tables summarize many of these competencies, and why they’re important in today’s business environment.
And, of course, a working knowledge of leading business continuity practices doesn’t hurt!
Bill Lang
In the 1964 movie Fail-Safe, a technical malfunction in the Pentagon’s strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail-safe distance. At this point, the flight crews are trained to cease communications and prepare to fulfill their objective by bombing Moscow. As the planes near their target, the crisis deepens and together the Americans and Soviets decide on a final, desperate solution.*
