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Government Perspective on Business Recovery
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Richard Harris Management Analyst | CommentsThis session will focus on the experiences and strategies in planning for possible interruptions to our business of running the government and how to negotiate obstacles such as gaining management commitment, ensuring public awareness, articulat...
Continuity with Collaboration: A Framework for National Response and Homeland Security
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Scott Ream President | CommentsAmericans continue to be frightened about terrorism and their general well being at home. Why? In short, lack of collaboration. Public corporations and public officials should demand that their plans, approach, methods, technology and all parts ...
Best Practices: Is There Such a Thing When You Are Developing Your Disaster Recovery Plan or Your Business Continuity Plan?
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Stuart Murray Senior Business Continuity Consultant | CommentsIn this tough economic environment, it is tempting to cut resources in business continuity planning (BCP). This presentation covers some specific industry-recommended best practices for BCP and DRP and will help you incorporate that into your da...
Decision Rights—Avoiding Chaos and Conflict During Crises
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Cole Emerson Director, Assurance | CommentsAs part of corporate governance, clear identification of roles, responsibilities and decision-making during normal operations is expected. This presentation will cover the decision rights process required to ensure a more effective response to m...
Integrating Business Continuity into the Corporate Culture
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Matt Moyer CBCP, PMP, Business Continuity Planner | CommentsChase Home Finance and Chase Cardmember Services will present a case study of their programs that embraces and supports a culture to provide the best-in-class principles and strategies recommended for business resiliency....
Applying Incident Management in a Business Context
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Rex Pattison Director, Business Continuity Management | CommentsCorporate incident management with issues such as the interface between the corporation as a tenant and building management; coordinating BC activation across the business units with differing reporting relationships; providing clear messages to...
Keys to Implementing a Successful Internal Recovery Strategy
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Rick Falvo Associate Director Disaster Recovery | CommentsLearn how the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) determined that an internal recovery strategy, utilizing a remote data center, best suited their recovery strategy needs. Discover CME’s keys to implementing a successful internal recovery strategy...
Plan B – A Back to Basics Approach for Developing a Failsafe Plan
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Larry Wisniewski Marketing Manager | CommentsAs companies implement new technologies designed to preserve business continuity (BC), they may still be unknowingly exposed to significant business risks. This presentation will motivate BC managers to re-examine their recovery plans, looking f...
Conducting A Self Assessment Using the Public Domain Business Continuity Maturity Model
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Scott Ream President | CommentsMaturity models have been developed for a variety of business disciplines. Their use and value is well established for both evaluation and certification of corporate program implementations. The essence of a maturity model is to define the cha...
Continuity with Collaboration:
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Matt Van Kirk Vice President and Principal | CommentsAmericans continue to be frightened about terrorism and their general well being at home. Why? In short, lack of collaboration. Public corporations and public officials should demand that their plans, approach, methods, technology and all parts ...
G4 - Crisis Communications
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | CommentsThe META Group reports that 80 percent of corporate end-users believe e-mail is far more valuable than the telephone for business communication. When companies can’t communicate, they can’t recover. ...
Assessing New Regulatory Directions in Business Continuity Management - A Post-9/11 Perspective from the Americas
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Roseann McSorley Director | CommentsThis session will examine key drivers of business continuity management, most notably events such as 9/11 and the Northeast Power Outages, and its subsequent impact on “old” regulatory perspectives and how it will help shape “new” regulatory dir...
The Role of Wireless Communications for Business Continuity
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Stephen Forte Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder | CommentsBy integrating your Voice over IP (VoIP) devices (e.g. WiFi-enabled cell phones, PDAs, and notebook computers) into your existing corporate voice networks, you can ensure continuous business communications during disasters or emergencies, as wel...
Making the Case for Establishing a Virtual EOC for Your Corporation
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Matt Walton President and CEO | CommentsMost large corporations have a physical emergency operations center and while this is an important part of a company’s infrastructure for emergency preparedness, a key element is missing. By implementing a virtual command center, a corporation l...
Small Business Administration (SBA): Case Study for Electronic Vaulting
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Anke Conzelmann Product Manager of Electronic Vaulting Services | CommentsReview how the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) studied options for revitalizing its data backup and recovery operations and determined that they didn’t have adequate in-house resources to protect their data in one centralized location. ...
