Exercising for Excellence: Delivering Successful Business Continuity Management Exercises

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An insider's guide to conducting successful business continuity exercises.

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Test you business continuity management system using this book- ensure you are ready should the worst happen - buy this book today!Thishow-tobook is an insider's guide to conducting successful business continuity exercises. It will enable you to test and evaluate the effectiveness of your current incident management capability and business recovery plans.

Written by leading industry experts, this book will take you from setting up an exercise programme that suits your circumstances, through planning and implementing an exercise, to reporting and evaluation.


The book uses case studies and learning points, and provides sample planning documents. Most of what you need to run through your business continuity management (BCM) system in practice. This also supports your compliance with BS25999 , the BCM standard.

This book is written to be read in conjunction with BS25999-1:2006 Business Continuity Management: Code of Practice. This standard sets out the processes, principles and terminology of business continuity management.


Key Features and Benefits:

• From the inception of an exercise programme, right through to running an event and beyond - this book guides you through most of the phases of a BCM exercise.
• Written in a clear, jargon-free style that will be accessible to non-experts in BCM.
• Includes exercises designed specifically to develop and test your organisation's technical, logistical, administrative and procedural systems. Allowing you to ensure your organisation is ready should the worst occur.
• Contains many real-life case studies from people whose livelihood it is to run such exercises - adding to the authority of the content.
• This book will help you Deliver well-run exercises which will raise consciousness from the boardroom to the shop floor. It will help make the work of those in business continuity valued and understood.

Author: Crisis Solutions
Publisher: British Standard Institute
ISBN 10: 0580509532
ISBN 13: 9780580509537
Pages: 112
Format: Softcover
Published Date: 8 July 2008
Availability: In Stock

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