Total Contingency Planning for Disasters: Managing Risk...Minimizing Loss...Ensuring Business Continuity [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

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A time-tested plan for ensuring that your business doesn't crash along with your computer systems

Now in Paper!

As modern organizations grow more dependent on computerized systems and other technologies, it becomes increasingly important that management develop disaster recovery and business continuity programs that mimimize the damaging and costly disruptions caused by technology failure or worse. This book provides a time-tested plan for doing precisely that. With vital information that any business can easily adapt to their organization, it presents a step-by-step model for developing, testing, and maintaining a cost-effective, long-range strategic plan that can stand up to natural, environmental, and man-made disasters—as well as the scrutiny of auditors. The plan offered here is so innovative and powerful that it was recently copyrighted. With the help of numerous examples illustrating proven solutions in action, Total Contingency Planning for Disasters shows how to:

• Prepare an effective contingency plan
• Sharpen the focus of your existing plan on specific disasters and a disasters impact on individual business units
• Communicate effectively with management at every stage of the plan
• Pinpoint development process planning roles and responsibilities

KENNETH N. MYERS (Annapolis, Maryland) is one of the world's foremost innovators in the field of contingency planning. His firm, K.N. Myers & Associates, has prepared disaster recovery and business continuation plans for organizations in both the United States and Europe.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; illustrated edition edition (March 22, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047157418X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471574187
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,676,072 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a good logical layout of BCP., August 14, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Contingency Planning for Disasters: Managing Risk... Minimizing Loss... Ensuring Business Continuity (Paperback)

For the money, Myers's book on contingency planning should be on every BCP/DR manager's shelf. Its layout allows for quick review and easy reference, and the sample plan that can be used as a foundation to build your own plan. While nothing new comes out of this book, it is refreshing to see good, cost effective and logical fundamentals being written about. It's a back to basics approach to getting everyone educated and involved. The simple wording allows for the "not so computer savvy" manager to understand the issues. The only thing missing that I was hoping to read about is how BCP implementation & documentation will improve the day-to-day efficiencies in the workplace. He alludes to this fact, but should explore how to use this information to help sell the overall program.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars say what?, June 14, 2000

By	Lake Polan (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This book is a complete waste of time. I understand the author's intentions in trying to create a 'cost-effective' and 'efficient' guide but I think he is totally out of grip if he thinks that an eight-day start-up period is an acceptable time-frame to get a technology dependant company back up and running after a disaster. An internet reliant company can lose significant market share after only hours of downtime! I understand that in some companies Dr planning doesn't recieve the attention it should from top management but that doesn't excuse the lame grovelling and coddling that this book suggests Dr planners should employ to further their agenda