Comments for Strategic BCP

Comment on What to Look for in Your BCP Software Vendor: A Complete Product vs. Copy & Paste by Frank

Frank — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:03:48 +0000

Tracy, I would be happy to share this with you.

Comment on What to Look for in Your BCP Software Vendor: A Complete Product vs. Copy & Paste by Tracy Male

Tracy Male — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:06:44 +0000

Frank, have you cross referenced a list of vendors/products with your criteria? If you can share, I would be very very interested!

Comment on Download Today’s Webinar Presentation on Business Continuity Planning Value Killers by Frank W. Gesinski

Frank W. Gesinski — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:09:56 +0000

The seminar was excellent!

Comment on See ResilienceONE® Live at the Continuity Insights Management Conference by TomPier

TomPier — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:02:53 +0000

great post as usual!

Comment on Join our Webinar: “The Downfall of the BC Professional” by Brock George

Brock George — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:33:03 +0000

This was probably the most helpful webinar on BC practices I’ve ever attended, and I’ve attended many in the search for a good path. Thank you very much for sharing your time and expertise with us. I’ve already made a few recommendations to my manager based on the content. Also, because I’ve already suggested (and implemented) some of the concepts you introduced, I feel much more justified in those gut actions. Thanks again to you, Mr. Perlmutter, and to Mr. Arnold and DRJ. Brock George.

Comment on Join our Webinar: “The Downfall of the BC Professional” by Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:21:23 +0000

Thanks for a good presentation. Being in financial services, much is compliance/Fed Reserve FFIEC driven (surveys/BIAs and docs/BCPs).
After initial BIAs, process mappings were the next order of business!
Re exercise, can make distinction between testing data (DR) and people (BC).
For metrics, keep track of bad things that happen in the metro area around your site (threats that you need to pay attention to – if occur regularly, now have a business case).
Regards,
Tom

Comment on Strategic BCP in Booth #411 at DRJ Spring World 2010 Conference by Phyllis Worland, CBCP

Phyllis Worland, CBCP — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:07:11 +0000

I’m loving the ease and flexibility of ResilienceONE. Working with the system is a no-brainer. Great job! You nailed BCP!

Comment on Live from DRJ – The Attendees Are Fed Up by Frank

Frank — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:42:00 +0000

DRJ can definitely be a big help in certain areas. Budgets really put a crimp in everyone’s education this year. Definitely look out for the virtual conferences that are much less and provide the same education on your schedule. I agree with you about others not seeing BCP as a true profession. I think one of the biggest problems is that our profession is defined by documents/plans. By simply mass producing electronic/paper documents, the industry as a whole has really diminished its value. We have been seen in many organizations as technical writers at best and administrative plan generators at worst. It’s hard to see how our plan generation exercise really has any value. To really take the next step we need to show more value and manage risk, rather than dump our big plans onto our organization.

Comment on Live from DRJ – The Attendees Are Fed Up by Frank

Frank — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:35:55 +0000

Jim, I agree. The ACP Chapters have been doing a great job at bringing some fantastic speakers and topics to its members. I had a chance to catch up with Brian Mackay of the Liberty Valley Chapter last week and he has some fantastic vision for really getting the word out on topics that can really help us as BC Professionals.

Comment on Live from DRJ – The Attendees Are Fed Up by Frank

Frank — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:32:42 +0000

Thanks, Jim! The BCP Genome’s intent was always to cut through the noise by synthesizing all of the BCP standards together sans the interpretation. In the end the myriad of standards and regulations are really suprisingly similar. You’d be shocked by the amount of redundancy. It has always been my personal belief though that the standards should really encourage better preparedness by mandating that businesses prove operational readiness through standardized exercises/test of core industry business functions. For example, show me that you can successufully handle a surge of patients, provide withdrawals to you consumer banking customers, and manufacture essential product. That, rather than something like a “Hazard Vulnerability Assessment” is a true measure of preparedness.