The Cabinet Office, Stuart Sterling, Anna Payne, Brian Duddridge, Andrew Elliott, Michael Conway

Business Continuity For Dummies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The easy way to ensure your business is prepared for anything

If disaster struck, could your business continue to operate? It might be a fire, flood, storm, technical failure, or a quality control failure - whichever way, how can you minimize the risk of disruption to your business?

Business Continuity For Dummies clearly sets out how to identify the risks to your organization, how to create your own BCM plan, how to apply BCM in practice and what to do if the worst does happen.
Assess and minimize the risk of disruption to your business
Create your own business continuity plan
Apply business continuity in practice

What are you waiting for? Take action now to ensure the survival of your business with Business Continuity For Dummies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781118326831
• ISBN-10: 1118326830
• Artikelnr.: 35911566

Autorenporträt

Stuart Sterling and Anna Payne work in the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the Cabinet Office. Brian Duddridge is Business Continuity Manager for the Welsh Government. Andrew Elliott is the External Business Continuity Policy Lead for the Scottish Government. Michael Conway is Director at Renaissance Contingency Services.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Part I: Discovering Business Continuity 7
Chapter 1: Introducing Business Continuity 9
Chapter 2: Understanding the Importance of Business Continuity 19
Chapter 3: Achieving Rapid Results and Quick Wins 33
Part II: Starting Out on Your Business Continuity Journey 51
Chapter 4: Focusing on What's Important: Business Impact Analysis 53
Chapter 5: Considering the Risks to Your Business 71
Chapter 6: Building Resilience in Your Supply Chain 95
Chapter 7: Selecting the Right Continuity Strategies 107
Chapter 8: Developing Your Business Continuity Plan 127
Part III: Embedding Business Continuity into Your Company 141
Chapter 9: Building a Great Business Continuity Team 143
Chapter 10: Managing a Crisis 153
Chapter 11: Validating Your Business Continuity Plan 171
Part IV: Examining Business Continuity in Specific Contexts 193
Chapter 12: Calling in the Experts 195
Chapter 13: Viewing Business Continuity from a Manufacturing Perspective
207
Chapter 14: Developing a Retail Business Continuity Programme 217
Chapter 15: Using Business Continuity with Professional Services Firms 225
Chapter 16: Making Insurance Work 235
Part V: The Part of Tens 249
Chapter 17: Ten Top Tips for Keeping Your IT in Great Shape 251
Chapter 18: Ten Tips for Communicating Internally During a Disruption 257
Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Effective External Communication in a Crisis 263
Index 269

Rezensionen

'The guide provides simple, practical and low cost steps to help companies make sure they can stand up to disruptions.' (The Start Up Donut, 12th October 2012)

'...a balanced and comprehensive book of chapters, each of which can be read on its own, allowing the reader to focus on what is important to their business, conscious that they are getting the full picture.' (October 2012)

'The book is a useful guide to the topic that would serve as good foundation even for enterprises embarking upon of reviving a BC plan.' (ComputerScope, November 2012)