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BUSINESS CONTINUITY: ADVANCED RESOURCES

In this section you can find an overview of all the advanced business continuity resources added to this website during the past few months.

Enhancing organizations’ adaptive capacity and resilience through effective decision-making in the recovery phase
This paper draws on three frameworks for applying ‘whole-brained’ thinking as an organizing principle for decision-making in post-disaster (recovery) situations.
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•Type: Article •Region: World •Level: Advanced

Bridging the business continuity and IT disaster recovery gap
How to increase coordination between the business and IT in preparedness activities. by Jacque Rupert.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/World •Level: Advanced

The tragedy of business continuity
This article looks at five ‘tragedies of business continuity’: ways that organizations fail to get the most from business continuity programmes; and suggests changes that could be made which would allow the full benefits of business continuity to be unlocked. By Alan Walker, MBCI.
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•Type: Article •Region: World •Level: Advanced

New edition of the Business Continuity and Resiliency Journal available
This issue contains five papers, all of which were short-listed for our recent Business Continuity Paper of the Year 2013 competition. The winning entry appears as the first paper.
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•Type: Article •Region: World •Level: Advanced

Business continuity: certification and experience in the field
Organizations should seek to expose business continuity planners to real disasters says Scott Sanderson.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/World •Level: Advanced

Is your organization’s planning brittle?
Geary Sikich provides five questions that you can work through to assess whether your organization’s planning is resulting in brittleness.
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•Type: Article • US/World •Level: Advanced

Embedding business continuity management
Ian Charters, FBCI, explores what an embedding programme could look like in the brave new world of ISO 22301.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Business continuity initiatives: when to involve senior management
Rama Satyanarayana describes what the ISO 22301 standard and COBIT 5 expect from senior management in BCM programs.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Getting the business continuity management system audit right
Internal audits are a requirement of any management system standard so if you are committed to implementing a meaningful BCMS it is something you will need to get right. By Hilary Estall.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

New issue of the Business Continuity & Resiliency Journal available
The Q3 issue of Continuity Central’s Business Continuity & Resiliency Journal is now available for download. Continuity Central readers can obtain a 25 percent discount off a year’s subscription if subscribing before the end of October 2012.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Quality metrics: business continuity program performance versus recoverability
Business continuity professionals should be reporting on much more than the planning activities that they perform or manage – they must also compare the end results of the planning processes (strategies and solutions) to management’s approved recovery objectives.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Human factors in organizational resilience – implications of breaking the psychological contract
This paper explores the impacts that the psychological contract has on employees’ attitudes prior to and during an organizational crisis and upon their willingness to ‘go the extra mile’ to assist organizational recovery.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

The art of the disaster simulation
Mark Armour gives a comprehensive lesson in how to plan for, run and follow up a successful business continuity exercise.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

How to exercise your crisis management team
Chris MacArthur, CBCP, MBCI, provides practical advice based on his experience in this area.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Human resources: covering all the bases
A human resources checklist for enterprise-wide business continuity plans.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

New thinking for new media
Business continuity managers have traditionally seen the media as something of a threat; but a different approach can bring big benefits. By Abdullah Al Hour, MBCI.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Developing seamless business continuity and disaster recovery plans
Dr. Jim Kennedy provides a framework in which the recovery time objectives for the business continuity and the disaster recovery plan can be developed together.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

It’s time to change your mindset…
Business continuity planners who feel that they lack top-level support should stop blaming senior managers: the problem probably lies closer to home. By John M. Stagl.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

The challenges in a changing world: adopting an integrated approach to risk mitigation
In this paper Robert Hall looks at attitudes to risk within businesses and explains why the balance may be too far on the side of risk avoidance. Business continuity managers may have played a role in creating this imbalance.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Top tips for fantastic business continuity desktop exercises
Charley Newnham presents nineteen tips for running a successful business continuity exercise.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Social media and business continuity
The one thing you can’t do about social media is ignore it. By Mike Jacobs.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

RTO, MTPD and putting the cart before the horse
How to calculate, rather than guess, your recovery time objectives: by Rainer Hübert, MBCI..
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•Type: Article •Region: World •Level: Advanced

Preparing a power failure response strategy
Power outages are one of the most common causes of business disruption and a good response strategy requires much thought and planning. In this article Dr. Jim Kennedy explains the steps that should be taken.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/World •Level: Advanced

Supply chain resilience
Supply chain continuity management has been much discussed over the past year but many organizations struggle to get beyond the basics. In this article John Robinson provides advice on how to take control of this area
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide • Level: Advanced

Are we fear-mongers? Business continuity and the boy who cried wolf
Nick Johnson discusses the pros and cons of using a ‘fear-based’ approach to getting business continuity buy-in.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide • Level: Advanced

Supply chain continuity insights
Robin Gaddum shares his experiences of supply chain business continuity management.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide • Level: Advanced

Is business continuity management a misnomer?
This paper discusses why business continuity management, as a discipline and as perceived by many today, is at the crossroads of direction and focus. By Luc P. Klein.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Business continuity management lessons from English public disorder incidents
BCM professionals must begin to look at what happened and assess how well plans and processes stood up to the events, says Gary Hibberd.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK •Level: Advanced

Branding for value in business continuity program development
What is your approach when you are hired by a company and given a blank piece of paper to develop a business continuity program? By Lawrence Robert, CBCP, CBRM, CBCLA.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Enough is enough...
Why is testing still a weak area in some business continuity management systems? David Honour comments.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Business continuity management: reflections from disaster
The Asia Pacific region experienced more than its fair share of natural disasters in the first quarter of 2011; but what impact have these events had on attitudes to BCM in the region, and what lessons have been learned? Ernst & Young, Australia, has provided a paper which explores these questions.
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•Type: Article •Region: Asia Pacific •Level: Advanced

The changing state of workforce availability
SunGard Availability Services’ Keith Tilley gives his perspective.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Supply chain management and business continuity
R. Andrew Fernandes provides a checklist of items to consider in order to effectively introduce business continuity management into a SCM system.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

BS 25999 needs a continuity capability statement
Robin Gaddum explains why.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Beyond recovery: the real conversation on distancing between production and recovery
Although often discussed, this topic needs a deeper exploration, says Lawrence Robert.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Why business continuity software sceptics are right. And why they are wrong...
Ian Crabb explains.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Maximum tolerable period of disruption: a new definition
Mel Gosling argues that the current definition of the term maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD) not only causes confusion, but is actually wrong, and needs to be replaced by a definition that will ensure that the concept is both readily understood and used as originally intended.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/World •Level: Advanced

Avoiding the dangers of groupthink during business continuity planning
David Honour highlights specific areas in the business continuity lifecycle which are at particular risk from groupthink.
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•Type: Article •Region: World •Level: Advanced

Lessons learned or lessons lost?
Why do so many UK post major disruption reviews keep on identifying the same problems? By Peter Power.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK •Level: Advanced

Should whistle-blowing be an essential aspect of a good business continuity management system?
Why encouraging employees to report risky processes and behaviours supports business continuity. By David Honour.
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•Type: Article •Region: World •Level: Advanced

The future role of BCM in contemporary corporate defence
This paper aims to initially look at the changing perception of corporate defence, followed by a review of the developments which have occurred in BCM and other defence related activities. Finally the paper addresses the potential future role of BCM in the corporate defence space.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Calculating acceptable downtime
John Robinson discusses the above subject and using the concept of maximum tolerable period of disruption as a tool.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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