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DRI Canada's quarterly magazine includes articles on Hurricane Dorian, London's incident command training, the RIE Toronto Symposium, and more.

Join the members of DRI Foundation’s Women in Business Continuity Management Executive Committee for a panel discussion focused on planting the seeds for a growth mindset to keep our plans, our organizations, and – most importantly – ourselves resilient. As our industry evolves, we’ll discuss how we, as women, can expand our capabilities, anticipate future needs, and increasingly adopt best practices from BIAs to incident management to testing – while staying authentic, establishing boundaries, and developing critical skills for success.

Many organizations do not have effective Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), which may result in unnecessary delays when attempting to restore services and operations to business functions. Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) are essential to evaluating an organization’s essential and non-essential functions, which could increase the risk of revenue loss, and/or data due to the application of ineffective controls. Initiating a Business Continuity Management (BCM) process does not have to be difficult, or costly. Learn how Virginia Commonwealth University's Office of Emergency Preparedness is building a robust Business Continuity Management (BCM) program with key insights including: · Creating a phased planning approach from initiation to roll out. · Understanding and applying lessons learned in each phase. · Facing the challenges of organizational culture and management buy-in. · Understanding and managing complexity in an organization.

With over 400 buildings on 415 acres, including 4.4 million square feet of research space, Yale University was challenged with conducting a university-wide risk assessment and BIA. This session will explore how Yale incorporates financial information, specifically grant funding, into their risk assessment and BIA process to help identify and prioritize facilities and departments.

An insider threat is not just an HR or security problem but rather an operational risk that can compromise the actual survivability of an organization and cause irreparable damage to your organization's reputation and trustworthiness. This presentation presents exemples of information assets at risk by vertical market and how BCP tools can be used to identify and protect the information assets that are most critical to your organization.

Larry Chase shares his criticality matrix as well as executive fiduciary statements, as he explains how to take the BIA product to create an organizational "value chain" for mapping the critical path in people, process, and technology resilience.

This document highlights the connections between the ISO22301 and the DRI Ten Professional Practices.

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You have the credentials and experience, but do you have what it takes to conduct an effective business impact analysis? An inadequate BIA yields wrong and useless data leading to a disastrous business continuity plan. Learn important tips such as: Using the "SMART" method Defining and setting reachable objectives Engaging the C-suite Knowing what and how to get the data for a productive business impact analysis Identifying key players in your organization Distinguishing what may be essential to upper management may not be critical to your business continuity plan This session will explore these topics and more on how to conduct a thorough and productive BIA. Improve the efficiency of your BIA for positive results!

This case study focuses on lessons learned from a national drug shortage due to a global supplier and just in time delivery failure. In February, 2012, Manitoba Health received a letter from SANDOZ Canada Inc. stating that effective immediately they would be scaling back production of approximately 239 critical injectable medications that would affect the health sector in Manitoba and across Canada. This session outlines how the Office of Disaster Management handled this incident to ensure the stability of the drug inventory for the Health System of Manitoba, and what would steps would be implemented to prevent such a situation from occurring in the future. The key lessons learned relate to global supplier dependence and just in time delivery.

Possibility Thinking in Global Business Continuity: ""They Stopped Saying 'No'"

The goal of this session is to consider novel approaches to developing recovery capabilities. Let's talk about how to shortcut the BIA/Strategy/Assessment process through inductive, rapid assessment, to kick start recovery capabilities from zero.

Security is everybody's business. What can you, as an individual, do to help stop the constant cyber-attacks aimed at you and your organization? Learn who "social engineers" are and how they manipulate individuals into performing risky actions and/or divulging confidential information. And, most importantly, learn how you can prevent it. Take the skills you learn in this session back to your organization. By educating staff you'll make an immediate difference in security and bolster your business continuity program to boot!

An earthquake. A tsunami. And a nuclear crisis. The $300 billion disaster shocked Japan and the world. In its aftermath, the Japanese are responding to an improbable situation with some impossibly intelligent solutions! This session explores Japan's complex, multi-layered supply chain, how your organization likely is dependent upon it, and how Japanese business continuity thought leaders are pairing traditional risk mitigation strategies (like geographic diversification) with new-fangled thinking (including reciprocal agreements that really work!) to create a win-win for suppliers big and small as well as the countless companies around the world that rely on them.