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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Over the last couple of months, I have been part of the team working on two different standards.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Over the last couple of months, I have been part of the team working on two different standards.

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Planning to Fail: 10 Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their BC Plans

MHA Consulting

Such material might have a place in a document’s appendix, but the core of any BC plan document should be succinct, actionable lists telling people what to do. Think of the information an airline pilot might encounter. A BC plan is like a pre-flight checklist for an experienced pilot, not a manual explaining how to fly a 787.

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31/07/2014 What can we learn from flight MH17?

Plan B Consulting

Airlines and those who regulate national airlines make a risk assessment on whether airlines should fly over war zones. In your business continuity plans, what assumptions have you made and in light of this incident will you be revisiting them? The plans for investigating air crashes are tried and tested.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Over the last couple of months, I have been part of the team working on two different standards.

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31/07/2014 What can we learn from flight MH17?

Plan B Consulting

Airlines and those who regulate national airlines make a risk assessment on whether airlines should fly over war zones. In your business continuity plans, what assumptions have you made and in light of this incident will you be revisiting them? The plans for investigating air crashes are tried and tested.

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What is a playbook and do you need one?

Plan B Consulting

They could be developed in response to single points of failure e.g. the organisations call centre is housed in one building, typical incidents for the industry such as a plane crash for an airline or good practice contingency plans such as disaster recovery plans dealing with the loss of an IT application or datacentre.