Total Contingency Planning for Disasters: Managing Risk...Minimizing Loss...Ensuring Business Continuity - Hardcover

Myers, Kenneth N.

9780471574187: Total Contingency Planning for Disasters: Managing Risk...Minimizing Loss...Ensuring Business Continuity

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ISBN 10: 047157418X ISBN 13: 9780471574187

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1993

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A time–tested plan for ensuring that your business doesn′t crash along with your computer systems

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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 plan
Sharpen the focus of your existing plan on specific disasters and a disasters impact on individual business units
Communicate effectively with management at every stage of the plan
Pinpoint 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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This volume explores the possible consequences of natural, environmental and man-made disasters upon businesses and employees. It describes how the increasing dependence on computers and automated operations must be addressed in order to avoid damage, hardship and loss.

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