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A Marriage of Craft and Technology

Creating efficient business continuity programs involves a careful assessment of resources and strategies. What knowledge, skills, and tools are best suited to support planning and program development? Who should be brought on board to manage the task? What are the core competencies that would be required of an effective business continuity practitioner given the scope of your business? Should an outside consultant be retained, and if so, who would be most appropriate?

To search out competent planning professionals, one must first understand that there are basic tenets that lie at the root of contingency planning. Ensuring that planners are equipped with this knowledge not only guarantees success for your company, but advances the whole theory behind continuity management.
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Business Continuity. Are You Prepared? Strategies, Producs, and Services for Today's World

Business continuity planning (BCP) is no longer a task executed only by wary IT leaders or cautious risk managers. Ensuring business continuity is the fiduciary and managerial responsibility of every corporate executive. Nor is business continuity a luxury, affordable only during economic good times. Like insurance, BCP is an expense that can protect against tremendous loss. It is a critical investment that, well-chosen, can deliver incomparable payoff. So how should executives select the appropriate continuity options?
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The Role of Technology in Planning for a Pandemic

Developing an Avian Flu response plan as part of the organization’s overall business continuity program is both necessary and prudent. While human infections have been limited so far, the disease is spreading and will eventually reach North America then spread through Central and South America most likely following the migratory routes of wild birds or possibly through the importation of infected birds. Does this mean that the Avian Flu will become a risk to humans and result in a pandemic? Not necessarily but if it does, the results can be catastrophic. Beyond the human toll, most businesses will suffer through the absence or death of key personnel, reduced income, stock price declines, and other losses. At best, planning for the possibility will encourage organizations to update and perhaps re-evaluate their business continuity programs so that they will become more resilient against any unexpected event. So the question is how best to start.
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Which Comes First, Business Continuity or Security?

Organizations often wonder, which to consider first: security or business continuity. Although both programs place emphasis on people processes, facilities, and technology, they each do so differently.
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World Business Continuity

Written by MLC's President and CEO, Mary Carrido, and published in CXO America, this articles discusses the need for business continuity strategies in a constantly changing international market. Carrido goes further to outline the common, best, and world class business continuity strategies.
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