Medical Preparedness Meets BCP: An In-Depth Look
As awareness and preparations for a potential pandemic outbreak have grown, more organizations are starting to include employee protection and medical preparedness into their business continuity plans. At the junction of medical preparedness and business continuity planning, there is uncertainty of how to plan with the focus on employees.
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BCP 101
Business continuity planning (BCP) is a vital business practice. With disasters such as flooding, fire and pandemic influenza making headlines every day, it's crucial for you to have a continuity plan in place to ensure you can continue serving your customers and members should a disruption occur in your organization. Plus, FFIEC and NCUA regulations require all financial institutions have a well-tested and maintained plan.
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Pandemic Planning: A Clear Understanding
Pandemic planning is a hot topic in the business continuity world and organizations realize they need to prepare, before it’s too late. BCP professionals must decide what level of detail is needed in pandemic planning. To minimize disruptions, there must be a clear understanding of developments, issues and protective measures.
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Emergency Operations Center (EOC) 101
When a crisis happens within your organization, it’s crucial to be linked to local, state, federal, volunteer, private and possibly even worldwide sources to help facilitate coordination and decision-making for planning, training, emergency response, recovery and continuity of government and business operations. You need an emergency operations center (EOC).
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Finding Your Seat at the Table: BCP in the Boardroom
Disaster recovery and business continuity represent a central but frequently misunderstood component of a company's risk-management strategy. To be successful and achieve long-term federal regulation compliance, business continuity planning needs to be woven into the strategic fabric of your organization. Angela Devlen discusses how to work with executives to build a stronger program.
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Pandemic Planning for Financial Institutions
Pandemic planning is unlike that for natural disasters or other disruptions and requires specialized strategies to build a successful response plan. Learn how your financial institution can best prepare for a pandemic outbreak. Understand the pandemic threat and why it’s different from other disruptions. Learn how to set strategies to appropriately address a pandemic outbreak and discover key items your business continuity plan should include.
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BCP 101
Stacy Henry of Strohl Systems provides field-proven methods to successfully create and sustain an enterprise-wide business continuity program. Discover what a business continuity plan is and how it bridges the gap between disaster and recovery, recognize the four elements of what’s in a plan, learn how to develop, test and maintain a custom business continuity plan and get up-to-date on the most recent NCUA and FFIEC regulations to make sure your company is in compliance.
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Crisis Preparedness: Building an Effective Crisis Communication Strategy
Strohl Systems Product Specialist Victoria Wheaton discusses the roles, responsibilities and goals of an effective crisis communication strategy as well as the tools necessary for executing your established plan. Plus, Philip Bigge, CBCP, Senior Vice President for Business Continuity at Countrywide Financial Corporation, will share his experiences in developing and implementing the organization's corporate crisis management effort.
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Corporate Recovery and Workforce Continuity
Your workforce is imperative to recovery, both during and after time of crisis. It’s imperative to take steps before disaster strikes to enable your workforce to complete their specific tasks. During this session, Gartner analyst Roberta Witty will discuss the human aspects of the workforce that actually run the business during the recovery process, emergency notification processes and how to use them to keep employees at all levels informed and tools that can be used to keep your workforce in constant and immediate contact.
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Hurricanes From a Distance
Hurricane Katrina and Rita will be remembered as two of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. Their significant toll reminded us all that we must be prepared to react when the worst hits. During this webinar, you’ll discover important real life lessons so that when the next challenge arrives, you’ll be prepared to prevail. Learn how business continuity plans, built with the right software, can prove to be the lifeline of your organization.
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Developing Awareness & Training Programs in Support of BCP
Awareness and training programs are an integral ingredient in ensuring business continuity planning preparedness at all levels in the institution. Learn how to develop all the elements to business continuity awareness and training and get the necessary tools to enhance your skills for implementing, maintaining and executing all of your business continuity initiatives.
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People Focused Recovery Planning
"With ever-increasing natural disasters and political unrest in our world, it is prudent business to have a business continuity plan in place to ensure you can continue serving your customers should a disruption occur to your organization. What's more, the FFIEC and NCUA require all financial institutions to have a documented business continuity plan in place that is well tested and maintained. But a plan that only focuses on technology may be missing the bigger picture. Mike Hoeltke of Agility Recovery shares information on research findings for businesses and people-focused recovery planning, key components to a people-focused recovery, planning for employee absenteeism following an event, and an introduction of Agility's ReadySuite Financial.
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Pandemic Planning: Cutting through the Clutter
Angela Devlen, Emergency Manager of Caritas Christi Health Care, helps you take the guess work out of planning for a Pandemic. To assist you in building plans for this very different type of business disruption, Angela will share information on interpreting the glut of information on Avian Flu and pandemics, getting to the how of pandemic planning, building a pandemic plan using Strohl tools and planning specifically for IT requirements.
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Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor
Dr. Gerald Lewis, PhD, discusses specific relatively low cost, easy to implement approaches to allay the often long ranging effect of crisis on the workforce. In addition, he discusses The Human Impact Assessment Tool (HIAT) that may be used to facilitate an analysis of potential impact on personnel and the importance of taking into account the "dynamics, dilemmas and damage" that a crisis can have on the workforce. (We apologize for the poor sound quality of this recording and will be working on improving it.)
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Building an Effective Crisis Management Program
Dave Prosser of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina shares his experiences in developing and implementing the organization's Corporate Crisis Management effort.
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Winning Competitive Grant Proposals
Join Harvest Grant's Chris Ross as he discusses the tools, skills and methods for constructing a successful grant application. Chris offers guidance in writing clearly and compellingly to achieve success, and explains the use of the Grants.gov electronic application system that is mandatory for most federal grant applications.
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Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County - The Implementation of a Disaster Resistant Community (DRC)
Learn how the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is building a disaster resistant community by proactively planning for events rather than simply reactively responding to them.
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The FFIEC Business Continuity Requirements - From the Source
Join the FDIC's Jeff Kopchik, co-author of the updated FFIEC BCP, as he explains what examiners are expecting from business continuity plans at financial institutions.
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Best Practices in Crisis Communications
Learn how important crisis communications is in a Business Continuity Plan.
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The Human Side of BCP
Learn the essential elements of planning for people - information, direction and leadership.
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BCP Testing Tips for Community Financial Institutions
Learn some tips and techniques for building a robust continuity testing program as required by government auditors.
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Which came first - the BIA or the Plan?
Learn how one business continuity planning professional is developing plans and using that information to build a dynamic business impact analysis program.
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NotiFind Case Study Webinar Available
Learn why Countrywide Financial chose NotiFind as their emergency notification system, how they use it and how it saves them money.
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