Planning Nuggets

Continuity Planning for Academic Institutions
There are important differences between the manner in which a college, university or other academic institution conducts its operations and the manner in which a corporation conducts its business. Until now these differences have not been particularly well addressed in literature for emergency plans. To read an article written by Doug Henderson on this subject, Click Here.

Catch Them If You Can:
The Kroll Global Survey on Corporate Response to Intellectual Property Abuse
Are You Doing Enough to Safeguard Your Intellectual Property? This survey was released in 2002. To download a copy, go to www.krollworldwide.com/kroll_library/articles.cfm

Are You Protecting the Value Your Firm Creates?
FM Global Study Finds Many CFOs, Treasurers and Risk Managers Need to Do More to Prepare for Property-Related Hazards

A study of Fortune 1000 chief financial officers (CFOs), treasurers and risk managers across a broad range of industries reveals more than 50 percent say their companies are not well-prepared to recover from a "major disruption to their top earnings driver," and less than 25 percent of respondents believe their current contingency planning efforts are adequate.

"The Protecting Value Study serves as a benchmark that financial executives and risk managers can use to convey the importance of prudent risk management in addressing property risks. These findings can be a framework for important discussions at the highest levels of their organizations." To download a free 12-page executive summary of the study results, visit www.protectingvalue.com

Organizations Still Experiencing Increased Awareness of BCP From Sept. 11
New Survey Finds Interest Waned Only Slightly Over the Past Year

A recent survey of business continuity planning professionals conducted in January, 2003 found that 81 percent of organizations are still experiencing a heightened awareness of business continuity planning due to Sept. 11. Strohl Systems and Contingency Planning & Management magazine jointly conducted the online survey from Jan. 17-31. The percentages are based on 764 responses. To find out the survey results contact Kevin Miller at kmiller@strohlsystems.com

FM Global Releases FREE 2003 Catalog of Property Loss Prevention Resources
Updated with new products for risk, facility and plant managers --

FM Global has just released its free catalog containing its most popular loss prevention products to help risk managers, facility and plant managers, and others responsible for property loss prevention, to effectively manage their property-related hazards. To download a copy, visit www.fmglobal.com/library/catalog.html. Or call FM Global at (781) 255 6681.

2002 Business Continuity Salary Survey
Want to know more about trends and salaries in business continuity? Go to www.bcmanagement.net for details of this annual industry survey.

Professional Practices for Business Continuity Planners
Many professions are characterized by a body of knowledge shared by members of the profession and used in their work. Specific skills, tasks, or activities for the profession emerge and evolve from a set of subject areas of a common body of knowledge that characterize the profession. For more information, visit DRI International at www.drii.org

Good Practice in Business Continuity Management
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is not just about disaster recovery, crisis management, risk management control or technology recovery. It is not just a professional specialist discipline but a business owned and driven issue that unifies a broad spectrum of business and management disciplines. BCI has published a set of Good Practice Guidelines for BCM. For more information, go to www.thebci.org

What is BCP?
To read numerous interesting essays and articles on the subject of Business Continuity Planning go to Strohl Systems website at www.strohlsystems.com Here are some of the titles you will find…

  • The Bare Essentials
  • Where to Begin? Business Impact Analyses 101
  • Conducting a BIA for Evolving Industry
  • Reporting BIA Results
  • BCP Lessons Learned on September 11
  • The BCP Sell to Executives is Tough, but Does it Have to Be?
  • Strategic BCP for the Security Minded