Another concrete example with numbers is: Organisation = 8000 employees Countries = 2 in two different continents Locations = 11 BC Unit = 3 full time (1 Head...
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Hi I got a BC position on January 1. I am trying to finish a BC plan development project I inherited when I started and trying to learn the field asap. Does...
I report to the person who manages the BC department in my operations center but I play role of the DR coordinator and Plan Admin. I am a one man team in my...
Hi, I am also in the same boat as Jim. I passed the exam in October 2006. It is indeed a tedious task to put my BCP experience since 1999 in to 500 - 750 words...
I'm willing to bet most of us use the daily digest feature to avoid getting bombarded with individual E-mails. I'm also willing to bet my company is not the...
Hi, everybody. Well Business Continuity Management practices, must be included in corporate strategies, and has perspectives in service continuity, production...
Hear! Hear! Let the frustrated continue to be vocal about their frustrations. Just don't let that frustration prevent those of us who regard this forum...
Hello everyone, My name is Moritz, I am 28 years old and I am currently beginning to write my thesis about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery to ...
Pardon me for saying this, but if you are writing your THESIS, shouldn't you have already done your research and found your sources? How could you possibly...
what would be the oldest form of business continuity? coffee? (at the industrial revolution it was used to sober up workers) the organisation itself? (as...
Hello everyone, I'm part of the Government's Financial System and am posed with developing criteria/triggers for convening our Crisis Management Team (CMT) v....
Hi all, I am working in London for a Bank / Securities company and have been here for a little over 6 months, and have been working in BCP for some years now ...
My organisation has acquired some mobiles with roaming SIM cards for key staff. At least, with these, there is a chance of getting a connection. In the event...
Hi Moritz Michael is very right in his comments. In anycase searching Amazon.com and/or similar sites will definitely help to provide other reads on the ...
Back in Mumbai, where cellular phone lines can be jammed on purpose by government authorities, to help curb the spread of rumours (the flip side being loss of...
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Apr 4, 2007 7:54 am
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The oldest form of continuity would seem to be cell reproduction. The oldest form of business continuity depends on what you consider a business. A hunter...
Moritz You should look at some of the reports following Buncefield in the UK, particularly Northgates response. Arthur Rabjohn Director Steelhenge Consulting...
If I understand your definition of a key postion, it is actually a single point of failure. No recovery can be dependent on any one position/person or any...
Hans, This one goes back pretty far. It was written by my manager, David Johnson. The First Disaster Recovery Plan? You may have recently read of the...
Noah saw the risk - possible flood completed impact analysis - two of each species (male and females - attention to detail) created a strategy - build an ark...
.... and even SAT phones are not fail proof. .... and SAT phones are heavy - so really not handy/ mobile. .......SAT phones are not yet the mass communication...
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Hi Laurel, another criteria we use is if the responding unit needs additional resources to contain and/or resolve the incident. In other words, if another...
In the event of a major or wide-spread emergency cell networks can jam up regardless of bandwidth restrictions. Analog land-lines (not through a PBX) can have...
Dear Michael, maybe my message came across in the wrong way. I study in Germany and in Germany a graduate student basically has to compose two thesis, one...
From my perspective, many of the things a society does to protect its citizens and economy do not count as actual "business continuity" strategies. An actual...
Hello Laurel What I would recommend is having a fairly small cross-discipline (i.e. comms, IT, facilities, ops etc) failure assessment/damage assessment team...
Now wait a minute. I think maybe you guys are being a bit hasty and harsh. How many times have the old timers complained on these chat rooms about BC...
I typically try not to bring religion into the discussion, but... When we were setting up a program at one location the SMEs were Mormon. They understood the...