Resilience Publications List


Both academics and practitioners in the fields of resilience, continuity, emergency, crisis and disaster management write articles, posts and papers about topics important to their field. Some of the most interesting of these outputs share lessons from previous events, provide case studies, introduce new tools and technologies and share research findings and results.

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Tips for Creating a Plan that Addresses the 3 Key Phases of Business Continuity


On Feb. 7, 2011, at 7:45 p.m., smoke detectors were tripped at Pitney Bowes’ largest mail services presort facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, as a fire that started in another company’s nearby facility rapidly spread.

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15th Edition of the Disaster Resource GUIDE Coming Soon!


The upcoming 15th Edition of the Disaster Resource GUIDE is complimentary to BC/EM/ERM industry professionals.

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Disaster recovery must be board-approved


A panel of experts at a roundtable organized by information infrastructure company EMC agreed that disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity strategies must have board-level backing to succeed.

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The Cloud And Your BC/DR Plan


Just 23% of the 414 respondents to InformationWeek’s latest BC/DR survey use cloud services as part of their application and data resiliency strategies. What’s the holdup?

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Don’t Bring Old Thinking To A New Disaster Recovery Model


Private and public clouds can make high-quality DR/COOP more affordable — if you don’t undermine yourself with outmoded assumptions.

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NEW BOOK: Emergency Evacuation Planning For the Workplace, by Jim Burtles


5 REASONS

You’ll Want Jim Burtles’ New Groundbreaking Guide:

Emergency Evacuation Planning For the Workplace

  1. Puts 10 years of experience and research by a world leader in the field at your fingertips - presents a state-of-the-art exposition of Emergency Evacuation Planning (EEP) global best practices and standards.
  2. Introduces new EEP methodology – uses the BCM 6-step model you already know to develop, implement and test effective organization-wide plans.
  3. Provides evacuation solutions for all kinds of personal conditions and facilitiesfor people of varying ages, health conditions, and special needs and for various facilities, including small offices, skyscrapers, business campuses, industrial plants, stores, hospitals, schools and colleges.
  4. Gives practical and compassionate insights for dealing with emotional reactions and physical difficulties – both pre- and post-event—and the longer term effects of trauma.
  5. Spares you pitfalls and costly mistakes – by giving you field-tested tools, templates, case studies, and practical tips.

Jim Burtles, KLJ, CMLJ, FBCI, is a well known leader in Business Continuity Management spanning 35+ years and 24 countries. He is a founding fellow of the Business Continuity Institute; received the Freedom of the City of London Award in 1992; and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by his peers in 2001.

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InformationWeek Research: 23% of IT Pros Have Incorporated Cloud Services Into Their Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plans


InformationWeek has released a research report, Cloud’s Role in BC/DR, encompassing analysis of results from InformationWeek’s 2011 Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Survey and guiding readers in using cloud services to improve their BC/DR strategies.

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Emergency Exercises: The Neglected Tabletop


One of the basic tenets of emergency planning is that a plan that has not been tested is not real. Unfortunately, while the best way to test plans is an operational exercise, the resource demands of functional and full scale exercises mean that we cannot hold them as frequently as we would like.

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BC/DR spending not a top budget priority


Organizations continue to spend on business continuity and disaster recovery, but BC/DR is still not a budget top priority, according to newly-released data from Forrester Research.

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Could you write our next book on IT Disaster Recovery?


Rothstein Associates Inc. is looking for an author for our planned 2012 book on IT Disaster Recovery. Is it you?

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