Principles and Practices of Business Continuity:
Tools and Techniques (with CD of sample plans and resources)

Keep this global classic by a legendary pioneer in business continuity at your finger tips. You'll refer to it often for global best practices and standards, case studies, and practical advice from a man who spent 30+ years dealing with just about every imaginable disaster in 22 countries - including not only recovery work with victims of terrorist bombings, earthquakes, storms and fires, but also in providing technical assistance in more than 90 disasters and 200 emergency situations. The accompanying BCP Tool Kit on CD has 24 planning and analysis tools, including sample plans for evacuation, emergency response, and crisis management, scripts and plot development tools for creating exercises to test and audit plans, and more!

MEMBER Rate: $89
Non-Member Rate: $99

Quick and Easy Business Continuity Plan for Your Small Business:
Step-by-Step Template with Sample Plans on CD

Push the easy button instead of the panic button if you're suddently asked to develop a basic disaster preparedness plan. Just go page by page to edit the Microsoft Word template. Delete, add or modify information to customize the template and at the same time refer to the exact same page in the sample plans for ideas and guidance. You'll find lots of handy forms, checklists, charts and tables for easy completion and distribution.

MEMBER Rate: $62.99
Non-Member Rate: $69.99

Business Continuity Planning:
A Step-by-Step Guide with Planning Forms on CD, 3rd Edition

If you're new to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and want a clear, concise introduction, this how-to guide with CD is the perfect "starter kit" for you. Designed in workbook format with lots of handy worksheets, forms, charts, and checklists, it will help you develop a good basic plan and keep it updated. The author, A BCP expert with 20 years of experience, guides you step-by-step through the generally accepted best practices in BCP, enabling you to construct an appropriate plan for your size of organization. Accompaning CD includes templates, sample plans, resources and more.

MEMBER Rate: $89
Non-Member Rate: $99

A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity:
Aligning Business Continuity with Corporate Governance

This ground-breaking classic debuted as the first practical guide to integrating risk management, business continuity management, and corporate governance. It is written by two world-renowned pioneers who have served on the British Standards Institution (BSI) team creating a British and international standard for risk management. Here they bring you a distillation of their global experience in 50 countries in helping organizations across numerous industries integrate the evolving disciplines of risk management and business continuity. They share plentiful case studies and best practices, cover a wide range of challenges, including supply chain disruptions, media and brand attack, chemical and biological threats, etc., and provide instructions for designing/executing team exercises with role playing to rehearse possible business disruption scenarios.

MEMBER Rate: $85
Non-Member Rate: $95

The outbreaks of the H1N1 flu were fresh reminders that every organization needs to have in place at least a basic pandemic response that protects employees and keeps operations going - and you need it BEFORE it's needed. This fill-in-the-blanks template is "just what the doctor ordered" to help you quickly develop and customize a plan that covers all the fundamentals, is based on best practices, and complies with general disaster guidelines. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to organize and prepare for a pandemic event, assess your business risks so that your plan addresses them, determine compensation and time-off policies, etc. Being ready before, during, and after a pandemic event is the best prescription!

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Non-Member Rate: $49.95

Business Continuity and HIPAA:
Business Continuity Management in the Health Care Environment

This step-by-step guide is designed to help health care professionals develop a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for their organization that incorporates special precautions and procedures to address the unique concerns of HIPAA. The author, James Barnes, is a business continuity planning consultant with 15+ years of experience, with a special focus on health care providers and financial institutions. He provides the steps and tools, including plenty of forms, charts, and checklists, and the core questions and processes to realistically and systematically analyze potential threats to your operations. Endorsed by The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII).

MEMBER Rate: $44
Non-Member Rate: $49

Disaster Recovery Testing:
Exercising Your Contingency Plan

Keep this classic as a constant companion to any business continuity guides that you can use. The ONLY BOOK OF ITS KIND, it shows how to test a variety of threat scenarios while you're developing your business continuity plan to see how it might play out in the real world. Avoid the tendency to write a theoretical plan and not know if it will work. Testing throughout the writing process will help keep your plan realistic from the start - and keep it that way. Through chapters and scenarios written by 30 professionals from a wide range of business experience, this handbook covers many functional departments and work environments: IT, payroll department, a manufacturing site, etc. It includes numerous testing scenarios that you can adapt, checklists, and a sample plan.

MEMBER Rate: $49
Non-Member Rate: $44

Auditing Business Continuity:
Global Best Practices

As renowned business continuity consultant and author Andrew Hiles observes in his preface to this practical handbook, "Around 85% of Business Continuity Plans fail when first tested. Put simply, these plans show fundamental flaws that would have been prevented recovery from taking place within the required timescale. Over 50% of Business Continuity Plans are never tested. This means that those flaws have not been exposed and the plans will almost certainly fail to deliver timely recovery. It is therefore crucial to businesses that their plans are subject to stringent review. Commended to all who are serious about the topic.

MEMBER Rate: $63
Non-Member Rate: $69

 
Comprehensive Emergency Management for Local Governments:
Demystifying Emergency Planning

With natural and human disasters seeming to occur with greater frequency and stunning magnitude, it has become imperative for local governments to be in an almost perpetual state of preparedness - one that goes well beyond what is traditionally considered emergency preparedness. This how-to guide offers staff in small to mid-sized local governments practical advice on the entire process of emergency planning and continuity of operation planning (COOP), of which writing an actual plan is only one part. This book provides a truly comprehensive framework to guide new and experienced public sector managers through the complete process of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

MEMBER Rate: $68
Non-Member Rate: $75

Emotional Crises in the Workplace:
Protecting Your Business' Bottom Line with Emotional Continuity Management

While many managers are skilled at business continuity planning to protect physical assets, fewer seem to be skilled at managing the intangible assets of the human spirit and psyche - and the bottom line costs of workplace emotional distress. This book is about being an empathetic manager, a manager who acts with emotionally sensitive certainty. A variety of quizzes and self-anlayses will help you discover what type of manager you are, and plentiful case studies connect that type of manager (and management behavior) to forecast your personal success or the need for more effort. There are also lists of all types of employees and how to recognize the destructive emotional dislocations they can cause. There is a real cost involved with workplace emotional distress - are you willing to continue to pay it?

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Non-Member Rate: $29.99

Comprehensive Crisis and Continuity Program for Colleges and Universities on CD

Use this comprehensive package of easy-to-use Microsoft Word templates to develop or fine tune a complete emergency management program for your college or university. The templates are designed with "fill-in-the-blank" and "edit-out" text that makes it easy for you to adapt each type of plan for your institution's situation and requirements. The package includes templates for risk and impact analysis; a set of plans for 12 critical departments and operational groups; a crisis/risk management plan; and emergency management plans, including those for pandemics, floods, and hurricanes. Even if you have plans in place, this package offers you an all-in-one resource for new ideas and benchmarking.

MEMBER Rate: $269
Non-Member Rate: $299