Business Continuity Management

✍ Scribed by Ethne Swartz

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is broadly defined as a business process that seeks to ensure that organizations are able to withstand any disruption to normal functioning. This exciting and fully comprehensive new text tackles the issue of BCM from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. It examines concepts from corporate strategy, information systems and crisis management in order to critique current practice and redefine the dominant IT and facilities management models which have traditionally been used to understand the BCM process. The text:outlines a clear methodology for guiding the development of continuity plansoffers an alternative, business-based perspective to the dominant disaster recovery and traditional contingency planning viewpointsprovides a clear definition of BCM and 'best practice' from a business perspectiveincludes analysis of the challenges encountered when implementing BCM*Features illustrative case material.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
1 Business continuity in historical context......Page 16
2 Regulatory and legislative issues......Page 34
3 Initiating and planning for BCM......Page 63
4 Continuity analysis and planning......Page 88
5 Management of change: embedding business change: embedding business......Page 127
6 Operational management: from testing to incidents......Page 159
7 Business continuity: where next?......Page 191
Index......Page 219