Business Continuity For Dummies

The easy way to ensure your business is prepared for anything If disaster struck, could your business continue to operate? It might be a fire, flood, storm, technical failure, or a quality control failure - whichever way, how can you minimize the risk of disruption to your business?

Introduction 1 Part I: Discovering Business Continuity 7 Chapter 1: Introducing Business Continuity 9 Chapter 2: Understanding the Importance of Business Continuity 19 Chapter 3: Achieving Rapid Results and Quick Wins 33 Part II: Starting Out on Your Business Continuity Journey 51 Chapter 4: Focusing on What’s Important: Business Impact Analysis 53 Chapter 5: Considering the Risks to Your Business 71 Chapter 6: Building Resilience in Your Supply Chain 95 Chapter 7: Selecting the Right Continuity Strategies 107 Chapter 8: Developing Your Business Continuity Plan 127 Part III: Embedding Business Continuity into Your Company 141 Chapter 9: Building a Great Business Continuity Team 143 Chapter 10: Managing a Crisis 153 Chapter 11: Validating Your Business Continuity Plan 171 Part IV: Examining Business Continuity in Specific Contexts 193 Chapter 12: Calling in the Experts 195 Chapter 13: Viewing Business Continuity from a Manufacturing Perspective 207 Chapter 14: Developing a Retail Business Continuity Programme 217 Chapter 15: Using Business Continuity with Professional Services Firms 225 Chapter 16: Making Insurance Work 235 Part V: The Part of Tens 249 Chapter 17: Ten Top Tips for Keeping Your IT in Great Shape 251 Chapter 18: Ten Tips for Communicating Internally During a Disruption 257 Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Effective External Communication in a Crisis 263 Index 269