What’s in a Date? A Ground Zero Scenario
by: John Newton, Ph.D, P.Eng,
& Rex Pattison, FBCI
With the turn of a few pages on
those new 1999 calendars we note with some relief that December 31, 1999 is a Friday. How
do you plan to effectively use this window of opportunity?
Facing Y2k plus One
by: Peter Slintak
What will happen to your company if
it is too late to fix every system, or you are not certain that everything will work
properly in the new millennium? If you are responsible for business continuity, then you
need a contingency management plan to protect against Y2k failure.
The Human Effect of the Year 2000 Crisis
by Michael W. Braham
Industry leaders tend to talk about
the Year 2000 crisis as a technical problem that affects businesses throughout the world,
with very little attention paid to the human element. But while the problem starts out in
the computerized, date-sensitive information systems of companies around the world, the
effects will ripple through every community a business touches – its suppliers, its
vendors, its customers, and even its employees.
Information Component Management
by Eran Kahana, Esq.
There is no doubt the dynamics of
the information marketplace are robust. Everyday, businesses not only generate a plethora
of information, but also continuously receive it. Be it through scanned documents, desktop
word-processing, e-mail, voice files, video files, incoming mail, etc., a given
company’s information infrastructure is steadily bearing a heavier load.
Exercise: Who Needs It?
by: David Greb, CBCP &
Rosemary Davis, CBCP
In late 1997, as Corporate
Contingency Professionals (CCP) we were charged with exercising recovery plans of diverse
business units covering multiple states for a regional corporation. Our experience to date
underscored an important fact. Although everyone talks about the need for recovery plan
exercise, little is available on how to prepare for and conduct exercises.
Personal Preparedness
by: Doug Porter
This article offers a helpful
checklist of essentials for preparing the individual home for unexpected disasters.
Don’t Let Anything Get in the Way of An Effective
Recovery Strategy Except Reality
by: David Osburn
Think back—for some of us, way
back—to your days in school when some teacher suddenly announced that there was to be
a major exam. If you were like me, the terror of these words was only matched by the
experience of finding a prominent blemish the morning of the big dance.
Hurricane Testimonials
Three companies affected by
Hurricane Georges in the Southern U.S. tell their stories: Deggussa Co., Ingalls ECU, and
American Innotek, Inc.
The Importance of Security on Intranets and Their Firewalls
by: Dorothy Woo and Simon Tsang
The whole idea of contingency
planning is centered around being able to access and process reliable information when
they are needed, even at the time of a crisis, so that the critical functions can be
performed and the firm can achieve its business objectives.
Monitoring Your Critical Space
by: Ahmad Moshiri
Whether you are monitoring a
hospital, a financial institution, and/or a manufacturing plant locally or remotely, the
most important concern is everyone’s safety and the immediate business goal is
continuous operation—without problems.
Crisis Management Planning: An Essential Component of Campus
Safety
by: Michael D. Ballard, Susan M.
Smith, Horace F. Johnson, Jr., and James Range
Each year colleges and
universities across the United States must respond to a myriad of natural, man-made, or
technological disasters. According to government sources, "in the United States the
cost of all natural disasters has doubled in the past decade, from nearly $25 billion a
year to $50 billion a year" (Parfit, 1998).
The Current World
by: David Hayes
Long experience with
centralized mainframes has resulted in a routinely held, but badly out-of-date, two
dimensional view of the interaction between the business world and systems. This article
proposes an alternative 3-dimensional view of the situation.
