A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity: Aligning Business Continuity with Corporate Governance
Reviews 1Business continuity is a vital area of modern risk and resilience management for any organisation. This book provides an ideal introductionto the subject for both the practitioner and for leaders and managers in general. It is also the core text for the Institute of Risk Management's (IRM) own business continuity qualification.-- Steve Fowler, Chief Executive Officer, The Institute of Risk ManagementThis book... provides clear guidance, supported with a wide range of memorable and highly relevant case studiesfor any risk manager or business continuity manager to successfully meet the challenges of today and the future.-- Steven Mellish, Chairman, The Business Continuity InstituteAt last, a book that integrates Business Continuity and Risk Management.-- Lorraine Lane, Chief Executive Officer, Survive - The Business Continuity GroupBusiness Continuity Management is coming of ageto respond to the new needs of its own stakeholder, the organization for which it carries the responsibility. It is indivisible from risk management and is an increasingly important tool of risk management. The Continuity Industry leaders are now looking well beyond technology and other infrastructure replacement, and see a crucial value for themselves at the very top of level of their organization's strategy setting. They set out to understand the importance of these dependencies, measure the risk and impact in its very widest sense, and then ensure resilience and an ability to respond and recover to a level that the whole range of stakeholders are entitled to expect.This book is a must read for those senior managers, risk managers and continuity managers who have the vision to see both the new opportunities and the new responsibilities of business continuity management.-- George J. Mitchell, Chairman, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray CaryFormer Senate Majority Leader and U.S. Senator for MaineOrganizations of all types are placing greater emphasis than ever before on planning to ensure business continuity. At the same time, the need for knowledgeable professionals to create and maintain these plans is growing, as is the need for good textbooks to guide them.A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity: Aligning Business Continuity with Corporate Governance is a helpful start.Authors Julia Graham and David Kaye and editor Philip Jan Rothstein are all seasoned specialists and the text is a solid guide to the basic components of creating business continuity plans of all types.Among the book's strengths is its demonstration that planning about business continuity is starting to evolve from its roots in IT backup, and that risk management no longer means simply buying an insurance policy. There is also an emphasis on the importance of involving senior organizational leadership in the planning and the need to identify all stakeholders at some point in the process.Helpfully, there are a number of useful suggestions for doing this. Some sections provide considerable information, and there are a number of useful outlines. One provides suggested section headers for a continuity plan.This book is a very good beginner's reference guide for any manager new to the business continuity game. Experienced planners will find it a helpful refresher.-- Security Management Magazine--Reviews 1Reviews 2The topic of Business Continuity Management is growing dramatically in importanceto corporate executives, as the nature and seriousness of the threats to the business sector continue to be revealed. This book is both a clear and insightful presentation of the concepts of Business Continuity Management that should become a part of every executive's bookshelf.-- John Copenhaver, Chairman, The Disaster Recovery Institute InternationalOne of today's priorities for any business organization - whatever its size, sector or location - is that it continues successfully. Yet there is an increasing array of potential threats -both internal and external - to staying in business, ranging from IT failure and human resource issues to terrorism and climate change. Meanwhile, a growing number of interested stakeholders exist with an enhanced awareness of business management and performance.Therefore Business Continuity Management (BCM) is attracting greater recognition as a vital tool that should be understood by the organisation as a whole. Protection of brand value, loss of reputation, product liability, existing and upcoming regulation and legislation, corporate governance and professional indemnity, are examples of commercial survival issues covered by BCM and addressed in this excellent book. Filled with case studies and illustrations, the authors provide a comprehensive approach that:* * * sets the scene for BCM;* * * demonstrates its value;* * * assesses risks and opportunities;* * * examines practical tools as part of risk management and corporate governance; and,* * * gives clear direction that moves the reader on from theory to practice.This is a thorough work that is a must for all organisations. A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity enables the reader to grasp the key issues in an accessible manner. It uniquely integrates the concerns of risk management and corporate governance in a practical manner that develops the interest of the reader so that it can - and should - attract the attention of the management of the organisation as a whole.-- Women in Law Newsletter--Reviews 2"Clear guidance, with wide range of memorable, highly relevant case studies for any risk manager or business continuity manager.” --Steven Mellish, Chairman, The Business Continuity Institute