Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Bookstore Bestsellers

NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...

NEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...

Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...

Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...

NEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...

NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...

Reflecting on the BCI Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme

Written by DonnaM on June 29, 2012 in Business Continuity, Jobs.

The BCI’s CPD programme is based on Reflective Learning, which is considered to be best practice in Continuing Education. But what exactly do we mean by Reflective Learning?

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Tags: BCI Continuing Professional Development, CPD, education, reflective learning, Training

Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Announces Their Call For Nominations for the Inaugural BCI Awards – North America

Written by Phil on January 12, 2012 in Business Continuity, Jobs.

The BCI will be hosting the first annual BCI Awards – North America exclusively at DRJ Spring World 2012. Open to all BCM professionals regardless of professional membership and/or certification, the BCI Awards – North America will immediately be recognized as the de-facto standard for business continuity professional recognition of achievement.

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Tags: achievement, awards, bci, BCI awards, Business Continuity Institute, Disaster Recovery Journal, DRJ, profession, professionalk recognition

BC Management’s 10th Annual BCM Study

Written by Phil on December 1, 2011 in Jobs, survey.

BC Management’s annual Business Continuity Management Study of business continuity compensation and program management data research is now available.

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Tags: BC Management survey, compensation, salaries

What You Should Know About Emergency Management Degrees

Written by Phil on January 19, 2011 in Emergency Response, Jobs.

Emergency management is a growing profession and is projected to continue growing at a rate of 20 percent or more, according to O*NET OnLine (created for the U.S. Department of Labor), which rates emergency management specialists as a “bright outlook occupation” in the labor market.

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Tags: degrees, education, emergency management, profession

The Consultant Conundrum: When to Hire One and Why

Written by Phil on January 4, 2011 in Business Continuity, Jobs.

Many organizations struggle with hiring consultants. Giselle Parry shares her expertise on when to hire an individual or firm and the best way to manage the consultant team when it’s been hired.

See The Consultant Conundrum: When to Hire One and Why, by Eric Holdeman for Emergency Management.

Tags: consultant, consulting, vendor evaluation

Stress makes even the most well-trained emergency managers stupid

Written by Phil on October 12, 2010 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication, disaster preparedness, Emergency Response, Jobs.

Quarter till four. Sleeping, gently dreaming. Suddenly: lights flashing, bells ringing, pagers beeping, a metallic voice barks instructions. Must respond. Duty. Comrades. Boots. Suspenders. Rollup door. Engine start, all aboard, lights, release the brakes … Continue reading Stress makes even the most well-trained emergency managers stupid

Tags: emergency managers, Emergency Response, stress

Sub-prime BCM certifications in Asia?

Written by Phil on August 18, 2010 in Business Continuity, Jobs.

What does it really mean for an individual to be “certified” in business continuity?

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Tags: Asia, certification

The Emergency Manager’s Dilemma: Should You Take Your BlackBerry on Vacation?

Written by Phil on August 11, 2010 in Emergency Response, Jobs.

You’re packing for vacation and your spouse turns to you and says, “You’re not taking your BlackBerry with you — are you?” How should you respond?

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Tags: Blackberry, cell phones, communication, emergency management, m vacation

Singapore Computer Society launches Certification in IT Business Continuity Management

Written by Phil on July 29, 2010 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Jobs.

The Singapore Computer Society (SCS) has launched its new ‘Certification in IT Business Continuity Management’ (CITBCM).

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Tags: certification, CITBCM, National Infocomm Competency Framework, NICF, SCS, Singapore, Singapore Computer Society, Singapore Standard for BCM, Singapore Standard for ICT DR services, SS507, SS540

Andrew Stern Appointed Chief Executive Officer of SunGard Availability Services

Written by Phil on June 17, 2010 in Jobs.

SunGard announced that Andrew Stern has been appointed chief executive officer of SunGard Availability Services.

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Tags: industry, Sungard

Dealing with Mentally Unstable Managers

Written by Phil on May 12, 2010 in Jobs, Risk Management.

Many of us have had to deal with mentally unstable people at different times and at different levels of the corporate world, including those at executive levels tasked with making significant decisions for their organizations.

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Tags: emotional continuity management, emotional crisis, mental illness, mental instability

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