Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach, Paperback/David Lindstedt

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Today's New Approach to Best Practices for Business Continuity After years of working with the traditional practices of business continuity (BC) - in project management, higher education, contingency planning, and disaster recovery - David Lindstedt and Mark Armour identified unworkable areas in many core practices of traditional BC. To address these issues, they created nine Adaptive BC principles, the foundation of this book: Deliver continuous value. Document only for mnemonics. Engage at many levels within the organization. Exercise for improvement, not for testing. Learn the business. Measure and benchmark. Obtain incremental direction from leadership. Omit the risk assessment and business impact analysis. Prepare for effects, not causes. Adaptive Business Continuity can improve your organization's recovery capabilities by ensuring continued delivery of services following an unexpected unavailability of people and/or resources. Transforms or eliminates many of the traditional best practices of the continuity planning industry. Moves the emphasis to proven practices and away from outdated and ineffectual conventional methods. Enhances your abilities to limit potential damage to your organization's brand, capital, functions, and revenue following an incident or disaster. The Structure of the Book The chapters of this book proceed as an analogy, following the steps of rebuilding a house. Chapter 1: Demolition - The first step is to identify and remove of all the things that no longer properly belong in the kind of house you need - certain BC activities and products must be removed to provide the space we need to install something new. Chapter 2: Foundation - Provides a proper foundation for BC planning, an integrated theory of preparedness planning. Chapter 3: Framework - Outlines the individual steps, activities, and deliverables the practitioner creates in partnership with all levels of the organization. Chapter 4: Finishing - This narrative helps you envision w