Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning

Each 100-page issue features authoritative best practice articles and case studies by leading business continuity and emergency managers. A selection of those scheduled for publication in Volume 2 includes:

Managing business risk

• Building enterprise-wide resilience by integrating BC capability into day-to-day business culture and technology
  Patrick Alesi, VP Business Continuity Management, Lehman Brothers
• Rolling out a global BCM standard at BP – a map-based system for monitoring threats and preparedness and for coordinating response and recovery
  Alan Moult, BCP Programme Director, BP
• How do you distinguish between ‘business as usual’ and ‘significant’ business disruption events and react accordingly?
  Peter Halliwell, Senior Business Continuity Management Advisor, Air New Zealand
• Key components for implementing an integrated business continuity model
  Pierre Wettergren, Head, R&D Business Continuity, AstraZeneca
• A dashboard for measuring capability when designing, implementing and validating BC and DR projects
  Sandeth Sheth, Satyam Computer Services and Joe McHugh, Executive Deputy Director, Operations, State of Maryland Judiciary
• How are operational risk and business continuity coming together and what are the implications for business continuity managers?
  Rajiv Vaid, Head of Management Assurance Services, Citigroup
• Implementing a safe business travel policy at Aegis
  Ian Beale, Group Risk Manager, Aegis
• Reputation management in times of crisis – case study of a Scandinavian telecom in Pakistan
  Salman Tariq, Director, Safety & Security, Telenor Pakistan
• How to monitor and mitigate IT security threats to data integrity and data confidentiality
  Jennifer Bayuk, Managing Director, IT Security, Bear Stearns

Emergency management and response

• How do you engage minority communities in planning for, during and after emergencies?
  Tarique Ghaffur, Assistant Commissioner, Central Operations, Metropolitan Police Service, London
• Case study – deploying a new system for recording and managing information during an emergency to aid decision-making
  Laura Fieldsend, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
• Working with healthcare providers to ensure a successful emergency response
  Glenn M. Cannon, Assistant Administrator, Disaster Operations Directorate, FEMA
• Case study – deploying the US Department of Education emergency response and crisis management programme
  Sara Strizzi, Program Analyst, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, US Department of Education
• Best practice in selecting, deploying and testing a public emergency notification system
  Chris Samuel, Team Manager, Civil Protection, Cheshire County Council
• Military support of civil authorities – lessons learned at Canada Command one year after becoming operational
  Lieutenant-General MJ Dumais, Commander, Canada Command
• The role of public health in planning large scale evacuations
  Benard P. Dreyer, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center
• Developing an organisation-wide business continuity programme in the public sector – case study of The Government of Manitoba
  Brock Holowachuk, Senior Planning Officer, Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization
• Best practice for local authorities in promoting business continuity to the business and voluntary sector
  Paul Walker, Joint Emergency Planning Officer and Richard Verrinder, Business Continuity Manager, Essex County Council; Arthur Rabjohn, Director, Steelhenge

Pandemic flu preparedness

• How Hewlett-Packard used lessons from its response to SARS to develop a pandemic flu preparedness programme
  John Hollands, Manager, Environmental Health & Safety; Rita Lauriola, Business Continuity and Recovery Services
  Manager; Mehboob Jaffer, Hewlett-Packard
• New York City’s pandemic flu plan – planning strategy and assumptions, command and control, surveillance, legal and preventive health issues
  Isaac Weisfuse and Shohsanah Brown, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
• Integrating pandemic flu response planning with business continuity planning at Johns Hopkins University
  Mary D. Lasky, Program Manager, Business Continuity Planning, Johns Hopkins University
• Operating a triage/alternate care facility in the event of a pandemic or other infectious disease outbreak
  Eric Bone, Regional Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness, Capital Health Edmonton Area

Exercises and testing

• Testing beyond audit requirements – testing what would happen in an actual event to better reflect client expectations
  Jack Smith, Business Continuity Manager for Global IT, ABN AMRO
• Planning and undertaking a successful DR exercise
  Debi Higdon, DR Test Manager, Dell
• Case study – a simulated accident at Eraring Power Station – how crisis management and emergency service plans responded and lessons learned
  David Russell, Business Continuity Manager, Eraring Energy

Disaster Recovery

• Internal, external and hybrid solutions for DR at healthcare organisations – how do you decide which is the right option?
  Angela Devlen, Regional Emergency Management Coordinator, Caritas Christi Healthcare
• Implementing an enterprise-level backup and DR strategy
  Michael Kaishar, Sr. Systems Administrator, Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union

Hurricanes and flooding

• How county/city emergency managers can assess vulnerability to hurricanes, develop response plans and mitigate risk
  John Guiney, Chief, Meteorological Services Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Developing and implementing a flood awareness and preparedness programme
  Linton Johnston, Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

Humanitarian planning and response

• Post-natural disaster planning – case study of collaborative planning between private and public sectors
  Natalie Claringbull, Junior Programme Consultant, World Food Programme
• Techniques for engaging the voluntary sector and how to ensure that strategic partnerships work in practice
  Moya Wood-Heath, Civil Protection/Emergency Planning Adviser, British Red Cross