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Ensuring Continuity of Communications and Emergency Response via Satellite
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Justen Noakes | CommentsH-E-B, one of the nation’s largest independently owned food retailers, implemented its own satellite emergency response communications plan to ensure access to critical services in the face of unforeseen events. During Hurricanes Dolly and Ike, ...
Measuring Continuity Planning Program Performance
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Carl Jackson | Comments"You get what you measure." Peter Drucker's management by objectives (MBO) philosophy spread like wildfire a few decades ago and since then enlightened management groups have attempted, sometimes successfully, and sometimes in vain, to establish...
Data Breach:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Ken Stoll | CommentsYou hear about them, you read about them and contemplate the effects if your organization were to suffer a data breach. You trust the smart folks over in the IT department who deploy state of the art firewalls and encryption protocols, etc. Ther...
Critical Personal Recovery Strategies for Executives (and ALL Employees)
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Ralph Petti | CommentsThis session will address your most critical component for a recovery event - the ability of your team members to be available to go into action. Consider this, the disaster event is occurring and your recovery plan is in place...but, where is y...
Katrina:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Carmen Sunda | CommentsThe catastrophic devastation of Katrina taught many lessons to citizens of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana and America. One of the untold stories is the failure of corporate America. Corporations were not prepared to manage the needs of custo...
Crisis Communications:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Laurie Wonders | CommentsThis interactive workshop will explore coordination of all internal and external avenues of communication while dealing with a disaster or other type of business interruption. The ability to quickly react to the situation and deliver the right m...
The Road to NOAA/NWS StormReady
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Bill Lang | CommentsThis session will explain how one company breezed through the requirements to become certified as StormReady by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS). Understand the application require...
Beyond Compliance:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Christopher Bauserman | CommentsBusiness executives and government officials are under intense pressure today to successfully pass an ever increasing number of security audits and certify compliance with what feels like a never ending list of regulations. This pressure causes ...
Crisis Management:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Tom Serio | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
