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Helmut Mair offers advice to those faced with developing their first business continuity plan. Read
 Axa Business Continuity Guide for Small Businesses
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An overview of the business continuity management process for those
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Glossary
of terms and conditions
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI)
offers a
detailed glossary of business continuity terms and conditions.
The
Ten Key Disciplines
The Business Continuity Institute and
the Disaster Recovery Institute jointly developed a listing and
explanation of the ten major elements of business continuity management.
Click here to read.
Good Practice in Business Continuity Management guidelines
Detailed business continuity advice.
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Disaster
Recovery Journal resources
* The
Contingency Planner
* The
disaster recovery planning process
* Legal
necessity
* So
you're the company's new contingency planner
* Business
continuity planning model (Provided by DRI)
* BC
plan templates and outlines
* Guidance
notes and checklists for developing recovery teams
A 20 question checklist aimed at enabling CFOs, financial controllers
and auditors to assess the state of business continuity management
in their organisations.
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What can you do if your organisation doesn’t yet have a BCP,
but you want to prepare for emergencies? Nathaniel Forbes offers
some advice.
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A comprehensive overview of BCM, produced
by the Australian National Audit Office
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Overview and links to useful documents
and templates, published by the UK government's Business Link network.
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article
Looking at using the services of a third party BC supplier? This
twenty point checklist will help.
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A joint NaCTSO, London First and BCI publication
that offers a useful 32 page introduction to business continuity.
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Useful overview by SPRING Singapore, the
region's standards agency.
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Gregory N. Mirsky, a BC coordinator for a large personal beauty
products manufacturer in North America, shares a training primer
that he has developed.
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article
Advice on how to decide whether an external business continuity consultant would be a useful resource to aid your company’s BCM program and, if so, how to go about choosing one.
The Institute for Business & Home Safety provides US businesses with a ten-point self assessment.
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Assessment checklist of what needs to
be considered and a five-step guide to plan development.
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Aimed at helping smaller financial sector firms develop business
continuity plans, but useful for companies in other sectors too.
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David Honour asks whether the priority should be given to crisis
management or plan development when funds are limited.
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A comprehensive business continuity
planning standard developed by the US National Fire
Protection Association.
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Confusion over terminology can lead to miscommunication of business continuity principles, potentially undermining even the most carefully constructed BC programme. Andrew McCrackan reports.
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Taking the first few steps towards a business continuity management
approach can seem a very daunting task. Ian Dunlop provides some
useful advice.
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article
Apart from the above you will find many
other helpful resources within Continuity Central. Your best starting
point would be to browse through the following sections:
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the site
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Business continuity plan development
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