Total Contingency Planning for Disasters: ManagingRisk, Minimizing Loss, Ensuring Business Continuity
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More About This Title Total Contingency Planning for Disasters: ManagingRisk, Minimizing Loss, Ensuring Business Continuity

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A time-tested plan for ensuring that your business doesn't crash along with your computer systems

Now in Paper!

As modern organizations grow more dependent on computerized systems and other technologies, it becomes increasingly important that management develop disaster recovery and business continuity programs that mimimize the damaging and costly disruptions caused by technology failure or worse. This book provides a time-tested plan for doing precisely that. With vital information that any business can easily adapt to their organization, it presents a step-by-step model for developing, testing, and maintaining a cost-effective, long-range strategic plan that can stand up to natural, environmental, and man-made disasters—as well as the scrutiny of auditors. The plan offered here is so innovative and powerful that it was recently copyrighted. With the help of numerous examples illustrating proven solutions in action, Total Contingency Planning for Disasters shows how to:

Prepare an effective contingency planSharpen the focus of your existing plan on specific disasters and a disasters impact on individual business unitsCommunicate effectively with management at every stage of the planPinpoint development process planning roles and responsibilities

KENNETH N. MYERS (Annapolis, Maryland) is one of the world's foremost innovators in the field of contingency planning. His firm, K.N. Myers & Associates, has prepared disaster recovery and business continuation plans for organizations in both the United States and Europe.

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Defining the Problem.

Awareness and Education.

Project Planning.

Business Impact Analysis.

Implementation Strategy.

Plan Development--The Myers Process.

Maintenance, Education, and Testing.

Appendices.

Glossary.

Index.

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