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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. Logistical: do the procedures work together in a logical way? Timeliness: can the procedures achieve the required RTO for each activity?

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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. Logistical: do the procedures work together in a logical way? Timeliness: can the procedures achieve the required RTO for each activity?

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Business, Interrupted: Peeling Back the Layers of Supply Chain Resilience

Castellan

That also includes considerations and planning for transportation, logistics, strategies, customer communications, and more. Can it kill business instantly or can you keep functioning at reduced capacity? Have contingencies when supply chains fail—from logistics to transportation to raw materials.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

For these reasons, it’s important that IT departments (and business continuity professionals) make sure their organizations are capable of restoring their IT services after an outage. Will there be performance impacts or capacity constraints? There are four main phases involved in doing this. Let’s look at them one by one.

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

To set up such a quarantine scheme takes lots of thought and logistics to be put in place. We were rolling out business continuity plans for their parcel operation. Part of our business continuity planning was to look at what the company would do if it lost a depot.

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

To set up such a quarantine scheme takes lots of thought and logistics to be put in place. We were rolling out business continuity plans for their parcel operation. Part of our business continuity planning was to look at what the company would do if it lost a depot.

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Deal or No Deal

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at Brexit and the role of the business continuity manager. Also, if your organisation is going to use specialist export companies at the same time everyone else in the market is trying to do so, there may not be the capacity to accommodate all the different organisations wanting to use their services.