Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program

Kelley Okolita

• Editorial: Auerbach Publications
• Año: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781420088717
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Negocios y empresa
• Categoría: Negocios en general

If you had to evacuate from your building right now and were told you couldn't get back in for two weeks, would you know what to do to ensure your business continues to operate? Would your staff? Would every person who works for your organization? Increasing threats to business operations, both natural and man-made, mean a disaster could occur at any time. It is essential that corporations and institutions develop plans to ensure the preservation of business operations and the technology that supports them should risks become reality. Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program goes beyond theory to provide planners with actual tools needed to build a continuity program in any enterprise. Drawing on over two decades of experience creating continuity plans and exercising them in real recoveries, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Master Business Continuity Planner, Kelley Okolita, provides guidance on each step of the process. She details how to validate the plan and supplies time-tested tips for keeping the plan action-ready over the course of time. Disasters can happen anywhere, anytime, and for any number of reasons. However, by proactively planning for such events, smart leaders can prepare their organizations to minimize tragic consequences and readily restore order with confidence in the face of such adversity.

Índice

• Front cover
• DEDICATION
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1: Where It All Began from Someone Who Was There
• Chapter 2: Selling the Program
• Chapter 4: Your Planning Team and Your Vital Records Program
• 5: Risk Evaluation and Control
• 6: Business Impact Analysis
• Chapter 7:Resource Requirements
• Chapter 8: Recovery Strategies
• Chapter 9: Documenting the Plan
• Chapter 10: Training and Awareness Programs
• Chapter 11: Testing the Recovery Plan
• Chapter 12: Coordinating with Public Agencies
• Chapter 13: Crisis Management/Event Management
• Chapter 14: Crisis Communications
• Chapter 15: Pandemic Planning
• Chapter 16: Life Safety
• Chapter 17: Transitioning from Project to Program
• Chapter 18: Industry Certifications and Professionalization
• Chapter 20: The Regulatory Environment
• Chapter 21: Tools, Software, RecoveryContracts, Consultants and Other Matters
• Chapter 22: Summary and Lessons Learned from Real Events
• Appendices
• A: Sample Business-Resumption Plan
• B: Sample Initial-Response Plan for Small Sites
• C: Test-Planning Guide and SampleTest Plan for Business-Unit Exercises at an Alternate Site
• D: Test Scenarios
• E: Alternate-Site Development Kit
• F: Business-Continuity-Planner Job Description
• Back cover