Hi all, I would welcome any additional learning points that group members can add to the http://www.continuitycentral.com article below. Thanks David (David...
RE: Grenada situation provides wide-area disaster recovery lessons David…. You have made some good points here. Very logical and obviously not just musings...
There are other issues for certain "industries" within the Private Sector of some Caribbean locations (I specifically address Cayman Islands) - one that cannot...
David et al, In Grand Cayman, we too were "smashed" by Ivan. You have addressed some of the issues and perhaps, amongst those, are some of the most vital -...
Thanks Mike. If you get some time it would be great if you could elaborate - and if others could add their thoughts too. I will then collect them together into...
While I am in general agreement with Jim, I would suggest that Business Continuity planning's true focus is risk avoidance and mitigation, not (solely)...
David, I will help as much as I can. I will just have to sort out any "Confidential" aspects of the Client Lessons Learned Plans that I have produced and...
My organization looks at the business with a "whole view". When defining Likelihood and Severity or Probability and Loss Potential or your special words of...
Hi We are busy evaluating a business unit to identify the AS IS environment versus the TO-BE state. This started from a BIA of the BU, but has progressed to...
Hi there, I just joined the group .. so ignore my ignorance ... if people have already replied. In general BIA - will provide you a metric for "How Critical"...
You could try http://www.kepner-tregoe.com/ Their "Rational Manager" is a good methodology, which I have used many times. Rgds Adrian ... Hi We are busy...
ADRIAN JENKYN
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May 11, 2005 6:53 am
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A gap analysis is a look at "what is" based on the requirements determined by the Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The gap analysis usually is performed to...
Thanks to Andre LeDuc State Coordinator, Partners for Disaster Resistance & Resilience Director, Oregon Natural Hazards Workgroup Community Service Center...
... can add to the http://www.continuitycentral.com article below. ... <snip> Excellent article.. It demonstrates how we simply ignore the most impr asset i.e...
Thanks for the responses. The BIA's were done as part of the same project, so approx 1 month ago. We have mapped the RTO's RPO's and criticality of BU from the...
I was watching the events in Washington when the Capitol, White House, Supreme Court and other buildings were evacuated because a small plane wandered into ...
Here in the UK, I was obviously unaffected by the incident. The questions posed however are valid. Now is probably an excellent opportunity to examine the...
The reaction of the US to the Cessner plane event showed the incredulous poor planning and response to a potentially devastating terrorist event. Evacuation...
Jeff Charlton
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May 13, 2005 10:43 am
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... neighbouring organisations. Do their plans for instance plan to evacuate to the >same area? Is that area capable of handling a sudden ingress from multiple...
There is also this site where our committee had free CD's available. I think there are still copies available: http://www.FLdisasterKit.com/ We developed it...
Hi Jeff ! I think that the americans must put more attention in the possible impacts and less in the counter measures against the risks, without forget it... ...
PCN News
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It seems that the White House planning does not include "sheltering in place" or any structured plan to evacuate staff in an orderly fashion. After all this...
If you are in a facility that is one previously designated as a target, I would not want to be sheltering in place. None of these buildings are of new design. ...
I noted in a reply to the Grenada discussion earlier this week that BCP's would best be served if they meshed with or became part of the EM plans. It would...
Hi John, Don't forget MIR3 at www.mir3.com. With some of the newer security requirement and the more complex deployments we are finding more companies becoming...
Designed with shelter's or not, it did appear that the people being evacuated were not being counted, i.e. whose in and whose out, and they did not seem to...
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... I have seen data presented in all kinds of formats, usually in Excel, using various types of graphs and charts. Visio is also fairly adaptable for certain ...
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