Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach

Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach details the process for building organizational resiliency and managing Emergency and Business Continuity programs. With over 30 years of experience developing plans that have been tested by fire, floods, and earthquakes, Tucker shows readers how to avoid common traps and ensure a successful program, utilizing, detailed Business Impact Analysis (BIA) questions, continuity strategies and planning considerations for specific business functions.

One of the few publications to describe the entire process of business continuity planning from emergency plan to recovery, Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery addresses the impact of the new ASIS, NFPA, and ISO standards. Introducing the important elements of business functions and showing how their operations are maintained throughout a crisis situation, it thoroughly describes the process of developing a mitigation, prevention, response, and continuity Management System according to the standards. Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery fully integrates Information Technology with other aspects of recovery and explores risk identification and assessment, project management, system analysis, and the functional reliance of most businesses and organizations in a business continuity and emergency management context.

Offers a holistic approach focusing on the development and management of Emergency and Business Continuity Management Systems according to the new standardsHelps ensure success by describing pitfalls to avoid and preventive measures to takeAddresses program development under the standards recently developed by ISO, ASIS and NFPAProvides both foundational principles and specific practices derived from the author’s long experience in this fieldExplains the requirements of the Business Continuity Standards

1. Business Continuity—A Definition and a Brief History
2. Understanding the Standards
3. Building a Business Continuity Capability
4. Comprehensive Emergency Management
5. Business Impact Analysis
6. Risk Assessment
7. Mitigation and Business Continuity Strategy
8. Business Continuity Plans and Procedures
9. Orientation, Exercising, and Testing
10. Continuous Improvement
11. Appendices