Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing OK ! I am finally moving towards becoming a fully-fledged business continuity manager (wooo !) after 11 months in a...
Jamie, I understand what you're trying to accomplish. It appears you're on the right track, identifying what job functions will be performed in the proposed...
****** Opps... I see some major stumbling blocks with your intent. I write below based on experience in the industry and many other associated abilities and...
Hello all, Right now i am working in a Crisis Management project for a Bank in Venezuela, and one of the scenarios we are covering is Terrorism. I was trying...
I am about to review and comment on the BCP of a client who is into tv and radio broadcasting. One of the risk exposures they considered and planned for is...
Yes, I agree with what you mentioned in your question...However, as a Business Continuity Plan for the reduced income cud be buying the insurance...I am not...
Hi Bein. I would say no, unless the scenario is a downturn over a very short period of time due to some disaster. I imagine New Orleans in the USA had quite a...
Greetings Bien, I'll second Bill's comments and state this is NOT a BCP issue albeit a general risk of doing business that should be anticipated and provided...
Absolutely agree with Bill Lang on this one - it does seem to happen a lot though I admit. I think it is a by-product of a perceived intangible, and I stress ...
We have a debate going on about our data center strategy. We're building out an out of region datacenter to be another hosting site. Here's the debate: ˝ of...
I'm not certain it's an issue of best practices but more determined by your capabilities, requirements, and mission essential functions. If you split...
Side note - Sorry Bien for misspelling your name on a previous post. Kevin, There would seem to be some telltale needs to help you decide. First, the IT...
Nice question ...... if not for anything else, then for bringing BCP back into the business context after so much dominance of the technology talk of this...
It is a matter of common sense and the art of settling for a good compromise between the odds. This balance point compromise is not perfect, and regardless...
You will always get two differing opinions on this matter from the IT guys as well as from BCP professionals since, I don't believe, there is any definitive...
Hi Bien, I hope you find the following of interest regarding varied opinions. I could not tell if the client you mention has a separate Enterprise Risk...
I'm trying to convince my employer to get an emergency notification system. Right now, we are planning on using manual call trees. Held a meeting with some...
Continuity Central recently conducted a survey aimed at discovering whether the events of July 7th have had a lasting impact on business continuity practices....
Hi Chris, We ran an informational webinar in April with Ted Brown, CBCP (KETCHConsulting) speaking on this issue specifically. You may pull a few ideas from...
Chris My two pence worth. Post incident communications typically consists of two distinct activities. These activities can be handled differently using...
Greetings. I am a newbie and this is probably a naive question but I am just looking for a yea or nay about a conclusion of mine. It seems to me to be far...
Dear all I was wondering about the criterias that you consider while classifying a business function as critical or non critical. Is it accurate to take the...
Hello again. I am not sure if this is an inappropriate question or not but here goes. Does anyone know for sure if LL Bean has a full-fledged DR plan? If this...
Under the Freedom of Information Act, or its peers throughout the world, there's really nothing to stop anyone asking a company if they have a DR or similar...
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... financial ... shoes, ... Financial Institutions have to have a certified DR Program and Plan to function but the retail industry can't afford to have much...
Jerry, At first blush it might seem logical, but if you look at the full spectrum of Emergency Management including Business Continuity Planning, and, have...
... world, ... a DR ... entitled to ... Tim, Sorry to disagree, but the FOIA deals strictly with government, not the private sector. Quoted from The National...