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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Business Survival ™ News Global Disaster AlertOrganizations 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.
In the immediate aftermath of a disaster or pandemic, people usually take stock of how unprepared they were for a crisis and are full of good intentions that next time disaster strikes, they will never again be caught unaware. But just a few months after any major crisis, a reality check usually shows that good intentions have given way to what now seems to be more pressing budgetary priorities, and planning momentum for a disaster has subsided. Continue reading A Decade After 9/11, Business Continuity Is Still A Work-In-Progress On Wall Street
Tags: budget, Business Continuity, financial crisis, investment, Wall Street
According to Forrester’s recent survey of 2,803 IT decision-makers, improving their business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities is the number-one priority for smaller and mid-sized businesses and the second highest priority for enterprises for the next 12 months.
Tags: budget, data center, Forrester, I.T. DIsaster Recovery, survey
Why would any organization choose during these critical times to implement a Business Continuity (BC) or Continuity of Operations (COOP) program?
Continue reading What can your BCM Tool do for you?
Tags: budget, costs, justification, software, TCO, Tools, total cost of ownership
The high cost of disaster recovery solutions is often justified by the cost of “not doing business.”
Continue reading Overcoming Escalating Disaster Recovery Costs
Tags: budget, cost, expenditures, expense, justification
Getting money for a data center disaster recovery plan is difficult enough; when the economy goes soft, it gets harder.
Continue reading Data center disaster recovery gets tougher in tough times
Tags: budget, data center, data center disaster recovery, expense, I.T. DIsaster Recovery, justification
Disaster recovery (DR) budget preparation is time-consuming, but with the right tools, the budgeting process for disaster recovery and business continuity (BC) programs can be less intimidating.
Continue reading A guide to planning and controlling your disaster recovery budget
Businesses of all sizes wrestle with the “what if” scenarios that comprise business continuity planning. What if critical equipment fails? What if our network connection is cut? How much should we invest to ensure that the “what ifs” don’t cripple the business?
Continue reading Who Can Afford Continuity Planning?
Tags: affordability, budget, expense
For many, the biggest inhibitor to implementing an effective disaster recovery (DR) plan is cost.
Virtually every business organization understands successful operations depend on the continuous availability of its applications. Most companies rely on internal applications – ranging from enterprise resource planning to payroll systems – to keep the wheels of their enterprise turning.
Tags: budget, cost, I.T. DIsaster Recovery
If there was an overriding theme in disaster recovery in 2009 it was make it cost as little as possible.
Continue reading CIOs: Planning, no frills make disaster recovery plans recessionproof
Tags: budget, CIO, justification, recession
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