Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

Few businesses can afford to shut down for an extended period oftime, regardless of the cause. If the past few years have taught usanything, it's that disaster can strike in any shape, at any time.Be prepared with the time-tested strategies in BusinessContinuity Management: Building an Effective Incident ManagementPlan and protect your employees while ensuring your companysurvives the unimaginable.

Written by Michael Blyth-one of the world's foremost consultants in the field of business contingency management-this book provides cost-conscious executives with a structured, sustainable, and time-tested blueprint toward developing an individualized strategic business continuity program. This timely book urges security managers, HR directors, program managers, and CEOs to manage nonfinancial crises to protect your company and its employees. Discussions include:

Incident management versus crisis response

Crisis management structures

Crisis flows and organizational responses

Leveraging internal and external resources

Effective crisis communications

Clear decision-making authorities

Trigger plans and alert states

Training and resources

Designing and structuring policies and plans

Monitoring crisis management programs

Stages of disasters

Emergency preparedness

Emergency situation management

Crisis Leadership

Over 40 different crisis scenariosz

Developing and utilizing a business continuity plan protects your company, its personnel, facilities, materials, and activities from the broad spectrum of risks that face businesses and government agencies on a daily basis, whether at home or internationally. Business Continuity Management presents concepts that can be applied in part, or full, to your business,regardless of its size or number of employees. The comprehensive spectrum of useful concepts, approaches and systems, as well as specific management guidelines and report templates for over forty risk types, will enable you to develop and sustain a continuity management plan essential to compete, win, and safely operate within the complex and fluid global marketplace.