Deepak; In my previous assignments with one of the leading BPOs, we had multi-layer arrangements for the same... * Intracity: Three operations centers within...
On behalf of my wife who is doing a masters thesis on communicating the concept of BCM to loacl authorities I would like to put the question to the forum: ...
Morten Fordsmand
mfo@...
Dec 2, 2004 11:51 am
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Hi Morten, I have recently set up BCP in the City of Durban, South Africa - a local authority (we call them municipalities in SA) employing some 22,000 people....
John Mayor
MayorJC@...
Dec 2, 2004 2:27 pm
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I am looking for examples of where business continuity has provided sales and/or marketing opportunities. The sort of thing I have in mind is an investment in...
Response time/ Service Level Agreements with Time Commitments are very common in the states. Where you have to be careful is in the cost factors associated...
In the States, in many cases it is a matter of funding. Both Federal and State governments fund (portions) of some municipal projects (e.g. roads, airports,...
One tactic is to add your RTO/RPO to your customers list of purchase criteria. That forces your competitors to disclose their RTO/RPO and may help make the ...
Morten, In the UK it would appear to be a statutory duty. For a number of years now the majority of UK LA's have consistently failed to undertake BCP despite...
http://www.continuitycentral.com news story: Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore launches world's first quality mark for business continuity/disaster...
In a recent BCM engagement for a global re-insurance firm, one of the marketing benefit realizations I put forth is briefly stated as: "In an interconnected...
Is it stated in any "best practices" documentation on how often a BIA should be performed? Linda Makinson Business Contingency Coordinator ...
Makinson, Linda
Linda.Makinson@...
Dec 6, 2004 9:36 pm
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I have a major group who would ultiminantly like a full DR test of their DR site but then do a full restore to their production site. The risks are obviously...
Hello, need some advice, I have a degree in disaster management, worked in the call centre industry at all levels, work on disaster plans at an international...
Anthony, We do regular flip flops with some of our critical services where we take them to DR and run for a week or so, then switch back to production. ...
Anthony Yes - I was involved in planning and running just such a test for one of the UK's leading firms of stockbrokers. At the close of business on a Friday...
As far as I know there is no defined advice as to BIA being repeated. BIA is project or sub project of the overall Business Plan development. Thereafter the...
While its true that BCP should be kept in the loop on all changes to the organization so they can have the BIA consistently updated, this rarely happens. Most...
Hi I'm new to this Group and would like to ask what's the position, from a Data Protection standpoint, on inserting names, home & mobile telephone numbers in...
kave_tr0ll
Steven.Hunter@...
Dec 7, 2004 3:59 pm
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Steve, Managers in the UK are being advised that if they telephone employees at home they may be contravening the European Human Rights legislation and could...
Jagdeep Gogna
JGogna@...
Dec 7, 2004 4:23 pm
1474
How secure (safe from prying eyes) is the plan? In any event, I would _suggest_ that any such list be an appendix/addendum since they usually are dynamic,...
How else will you communicate with them if there is a need to inform them to go to your "black" site? Deon Binneman Phone/Fax +27 011 4753515 Mobile: 083...
Simplistic approach to this is to ask the staff for it, if they dont give it that fine, just inform them in the event of an incident they wont be contacted...
As another thought on this where does it end? Companies need addresses for tax reasons and there is also the question of next of kin? If there are no phone...
I believe we have two different issues. One is HR being able to contact next of kin in case of injury and the other being able to call someone to work at an...
Sometimes, we may have to contact next of kin in order to contact the primary. The issues are not different. It is a singular issue: How do we contact our...
Hello All, I'm new to this group, but it looks like there's been a lot of great discussion over the past year or two. I'm especially interested in learning ...
Hi, Does anyone know different methods used in performing Risk analysis and Business Impact Analyses? Can anyone share with me any BIA conducted and what...
deepak chawla
deepak_chawla25@...
Dec 9, 2004 6:40 pm
1482
I can only tell you what I do. Once I find out (from senior management) what the organization does - why it exists - develop an all-inclusive questionnaire to...
No science, no tools? Just a thumb? Forgive me , I am new to all this. "John Glenn, CRP" <jglenncrp@...> wrote: I can only tell you what I do. Once I...
Hi Steve. It may sound archaic if you step back and look at it from the general populations perspective. But the methods John mentions need to be done when the...
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