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Hiring the right business continuity professionals will enable your organization to withstand any crisis and come through even stronger. Because of the importance of these positions, more and more organizations are exclusively recruiting certified business continuity professionals. As the oldest and largest nonprofit institute representing business continuity management and resilience fields, DRI International has developed a guide to help you entitled Hiring a Business Continuity Professional.

Natural and man-made disasters can strike without warning. During a large-scale disaster, no one expects to be left alone by municipal emergency responders. However, when a large disaster strikes, emergency responders will be hours, if not days away from assisting corporations. Corporate self-sufficiency is paramount not only to the successful recovery to business normalcy, but for the well-being of its employees and the company’s reputation. This session examines the thought processes and subsequent actions all corporations should take to attain self-sufficiency during major disasters. It also includes a hands-on component to demonstrate thinking beyond the incident itself.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points. The CRBC team succeeds by providing business impact analysis (BIA) workshops with those 63 ABCs to create a holistic view of the priorities of the customer agencies in an enterprise approach. The CRBC team gathers a business-driven set of data-points which provide for informed recovery decisions based upon the realistic implications of different outage scenarios provided through the informed feedback of the business owners and subject matter experts who hold the intimacy of operations. This enables more effective and efficient spending surrounding disaster recovery and business continuity. The presenters will discuss how this effort got off the ground, the strategy, the tools, and techniques used to ensure consistent understanding of the BIA throughout the enterprise ensuring in the end, DoIT’s CRBC team has gathered apples from each of the ABCs and not a fruit cocktail.

Only in the past few years have resilience and risk-reduction practitioners have to develop strategies for engaging public and private sector stakeholders in implementing resilient strategies. The “resilience industry” is now an identifiable economic sector bringing creative ideas, innovations, and strategies from several areas. Whether addressing flood mitigation, green infrastructure, transportation or reducing climate-driven inequities, today architects, urban planners, civil engineers and policy designers are now connected by a common language of resilience. This session will discuss how this is coming together, where further engagement can take place and what are the future paths.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

Listen to an impressive panel of MBCPs answer your questions from various industries and with a wide range of expertise during our “Ask the MBCPs” webinar.

As BCM matures and moves from a business recovery model to an integrated risk partnership within organizational resilience, its use cases and purpose are evolving. In this session, the speaker will share one example of where BCM/OR is uniquely qualified to become a core component of the operational risk landscape. Through three stages of maturity – compliance, readiness, and resilience, this session will discuss how to create the infrastructure to leverage BCM as your organization’s primary operational risk service provider.

This presentation will discuss the current and future state of organizational resilience across multiple management disciplines including business continuity management, information security and more. Using the five layers of culture, people, process and infrastructure, we will address the role of the chief risk/strategy officer and present a framework for developing a business/organizational resilience program in the organization.

Lou Drapeau, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for DRI International, presents on enterprise risk management and business continuity. How do we define resilience? Why is resilience important? What makes a system resilient? What does resilience mean for an organization? The answers to these questions will be revealed through a discussion of the roles of business continuity and risk management as well as where these functions reside in organizations. You’ll learn about the terminology of resilience, relevant trends identified by DRI’s Future Vision Committee, as well as cyber resilience and developing strategies for resilience.

Streamlining business continuity management as an integral part of the emergency management framework, the Organizational Resilience Management System (ORMS) comprises crisis management, ICT disaster recovery, security, medical, staff support, crisis communications, records, facilities management and BCM. The ORMS at the UN provides an effective means to integrate and harmonize the emergency management activities. The ORMS provides a framework for cooperation across institutional silos and between the various actors responsible for the key components.

This white paper is designed as a tool for integrating organizational approaches to business continuity management and disaster risk reduction, a roadmap for implementing the Sendai framework into their existing resilience program.

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Earthquakes! Fire! Security Breaches! Acquisitions! New Service Offerings! What do these events have in common? They all represent major organizational changes requiring change management proficiency. External events force us to change; understanding how people respond is critical to a successful BCP. As BC professionals, we are in the business of managing immediate and often catastrophic changes. Basic project management can deal with the discreet tasks required to make a change, but it does not account for the human experience. This presentation introduces the structure of change, what we experience when forced to change, and strategies for managing the process.