El. knyga: Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program

For planners wanting to build a continuity program and protect a company from disaster, Okolita, a continuity planner, details how to develop a plan that will ensure the preservation of business operations and technology and outlines each step of the process for small and large enterprises, public or private. He provides practical tools for such areas as convincing those in leadership about the program, project initiation and management, creating a planning team and vital records program, risk evaluation and control, business impact analysis, resource requirements, documentation, training programs, plan testing, crisis and event management, planning for pandemics, and life safety. A sample plan is included. There is no bibliography. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

If you had to evacuate from your building right now and were told you couldn’t get back in for two weeks, would you know what to do to ensure your business continues to operate? Would your staff? Would every person who works for your organization?

Increasing threats to business operations, both natural and man-made, mean a disaster could occur at any time. It is essential that corporations and institutions develop plans to ensure the preservation of business operations and the technology that supports them should risks become reality.

Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program goes beyond theory to provide planners with actual tools needed to build a continuity program in any enterprise. Drawing on over two decades of experience creating continuity plans and exercising them in real recoveries, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Master Business Continuity Planner, Kelley Okolita, provides guidance on each step of the process. She details how to validate the plan and supplies time-tested tips for keeping the plan action-ready over the course of time.

Disasters can happen anywhere, anytime, and for any number of reasons. However, by proactively planning for such events, smart leaders can prepare their organizations to minimize tragic consequences and readily restore order with confidence in the face of such adversity.