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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

MHA Consulting

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. Pursued purposefully these are all worthwhile activities. However, there is one activity that most BC offices tend to neglect—and pound for pound it is one of the most worthwhile ways a BC professional can spend his or her time.

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Don’t get hung up on the scenario when planning a business continuity exercise

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at the objectives, format and scenario of business continuity exercises, and I explain why scenarios are not the most important factor when planning an exercise. Timeliness: can the procedures achieve the required RTO for each activity? Exercising recovery processes Administrative: are the procedures manageable?

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Don’t get hung up on the scenario when planning a business continuity exercise

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at the objectives, format and scenario of business continuity exercises, and I explain why scenarios are not the most important factor when planning an exercise. Timeliness: can the procedures achieve the required RTO for each activity? Exercising recovery processes.

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Flu Pandemic Planning 2006 and What Really Happened!

Plan B Consulting

Survive was an organisation preceding the Business Continuity Institute and ‘Flu Pandemic Guidelines for Businesses’ was a booklet they produced on flu pandemic guidance. This week I am going to look at the assumptions and save the general planning guidance for another week. Productivity and motivation.

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Flu Pandemic Planning 2006 and What Really Happened!

Plan B Consulting

Survive was an organisation preceding the Business Continuity Institute and ‘Flu Pandemic Guidelines for Businesses’ was a booklet they produced on flu pandemic guidance. This week I am going to look at the assumptions and save the general planning guidance for another week. Productivity and motivation.

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Flu Pandemic Planning 2006 and What Really Happened!

Plan B Consulting

Survive was an organisation preceding the Business Continuity Institute and ‘Flu Pandemic Guidelines for Businesses’ was a booklet they produced on flu pandemic guidance. This week I am going to look at the assumptions and save the general planning guidance for another week. Productivity and motivation.

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Building an Incident Team Competency Framework

Plan B Consulting

These all point to organisations needing a response to changing circumstances and having to activate their crisis team and respond to events. Due to COVID-19, every organisation in the world has had to implement incident management and manage their response. Need to be ready to manage incidents.