Technology at the wheel?

Think again! So many companies these days think it’s a good idea to let technology get behind the wheel of business or business recovery. This is not going to move you forward. Business is about people and systems. If you happen to have a computer to help with one of those systems, fine, but don’t let that computer boss you around and don’t EVER start thinking that computer cares about you or your company. It doesn’t and it never will.

Likewise, there’s a strong trend to push business decisions on to the people who care for the computer. They are fantastic people and they help you get what you need. You may even get to feeling like they are indispensable because they are always saying things like, “We are working on that now”. Or they make your iPad work after you screamed at it and threatened to throw it out the window. Your tech team may be working miracles but they still can not run your business. Put them back in their car seat and get back to driving!

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Not just Surviving – THRIVING!

Continuity management has long been tied to disaster planning and crisis response as fundamental to emergency planning but the reality is: If you’re just practicing business continuity to survive you’re never going to get much out of it.

The key to effective value creation from continuity management is a strategy that builds on how the day-to-day business is designed to create value. Today’s global market puts us all in crisis. Corporate directors are in jail. Cyber terrorists can easily hide across borders around world yet still access information kept locked away. States and countries declare bankruptcy. Instability is everywhere.

Businesses are so interdependent on one another that supply chain and technology are complex grey zones of value and accountability. The bottom line is the business needs to create value to survive. Maybe value means money, maybe it’s customer satisfaction or maybe it’s serving its nonprofit goal. Regardless, the creation of that value must be the crux of your resilience plans.

One of the most common misconceptions of business continuity planning is that it starts with a disaster and in a lucky world no one would need a plan. Luck favors the prepared. A business with a healthy continuity management program doesn’t just survive crisis; it thrives daily. The reality of the business world is that every day is more complex and risk loaded. In order to work toward corporate maturity and institutionalization of the systems that create value you have to structure and live your plan.

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Continuity management has long been tied to disaster planning and crisis response as fundamental to emergency planning but the reality is: If you’re just practicing business continuity to survive you’re never going to get much out of it.
The key to effective value creation from continuity management is a strategy that builds on how the day-to-day business is designed to create value. Today’s global market puts us all in crisis. Corporate directors are in jail. Cyber terrorists can easily hide across borders around world yet still access information kept locked away. States and countries declare bankruptcy. Instability is everywhere.
Businesses are so interdependent on one another that supply chain and technology are complex grey zones of value and accountability. The bottom line is the business needs to create value to survive. Maybe value means money, maybe it’s customer satisfaction or maybe it’s serving its nonprofit goal. Regardless, the creation of that value must be the crux of your resilience plans.
One of the most common misconceptions of business continuity planning is that it starts with a disaster and in a lucky world no one would need a plan. Luck favors the prepared. A business with a healthy continuity management program doesn’t just survive crisis; it thrives daily. The reality of the business world is that every day is more complex and risk loaded. In order to work toward corporate maturity and institutionalization of the systems that create value you have to structure and live your plan.
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Kit for Exercising your Disaster Business Response Plans

Compliance requirements state that contingency plans have to be regularly tested but what does that mean for your continuity program and what does a test actually look like? DCS recommends you build a robust exercise program that develops over time to test your plans, incorporate updates and train your employees. Most importantly the program needs to correspond to changes in your business. This kit helps you design, build and facilitate an effective test that will exercise your disaster business response plan from beginning to end. 

In the continuity industry it’s well known that a plan isn't worth the paper it's been printed on if it hasn't been tested. Let us help you add value to your disaster planning program with our kit. It’s full of details on the entire span of testing. This kit covers it all, including: 

• Test strategy
• Types of exercises
• Building your team
• Scenario development
• Simple forms to help with planning and documentation
• Getting participants involved
• Creating detailed plans for how a test is conducted
• Test evaluation and feedback
• Reporting results to your executive team
• Planning the next test based on the last test’s results

Specifications: FFIEC and HIPAA compliant, 16 pages
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Exercise Kit

What is Exercise kit and how do you make sure you’re meeting regulatory requirements while preparing in a way that’s right for your organization? DCS’s experienced team knows what you need. 

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Information Security Threat Risk Kit

Looking for an incident response compliance solution? Need direction on how to respond to a data breach you’ve experienced? Want to make sure you’ve covered all your bases? You’re at the right place! Our Information Security Threat Kit is the solution for professionals who want to be prepared to respond to a data breach. Based on regulatory guidelines and best practices, it’s a simple to use robust form that will walk you through your emergency.

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Best Practices of business continuity

Who knows your bank better than YOU? DIY keeps you compliant!

Because you need simple and reliable solutions for managing your compliance that are also simple and reliable for responding to emergencies, we have developed the DIY Turnkey Continuity product line. Each form takes you step-by-step through the best practices of continuity while making it easy for you to meet compliance requirements or respond to an emergency for which you would otherwise be unprepared.

We’re building new forms every day so check back often or contact us to let us know what forms you need.

Our Product List:

Information Security Threat Risk Kit

Exercise Kit

Social Media Risk Kit

Pandemic Risk Kit

Disaster Exercise Kit

Cascading Communications Call Tree Set Up & Test Kit

Data Center Risk Assessment

Vendor Management Risk Assessment

Emergency Response Handbook for Banks

Manufacturing Vendor Management Kit

Small Business Disaster Toolkit

Information Security Threat Risk Kit

Looking for an incident response compliance solution? Need direction on how to respond to a data breach you’ve experienced? Want to make sure you’ve covered all your bases? You’re at the right place! Our information Security Threat Kit is the solution for professionals who want to be prepared to respond to a data breach. Based on regulatory guidelines and best practices, it’s a simple to use robust form that will walk you through your emergency.

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Exercise Kit

What is exercise kit and how do you make sure you’re meeting regulatory requirements while preparing in a way that’s right for your organization? DCS’s experienced team knows what you need.

Pandemic Risk Kit

What is pandemic risk and how do you make sure you’re meeting regulatory requirements while preparing in a way that’s right for your organization? DCS’s experienced team knows what you need.

Small Business Planning Tool Kit

Coming soon!

Disaster Planning Exercise Kit

Coming soon!

Call Tree Exercise Kit

Coming soon!

Vendor Management Kit

Coming soon!

Data Center Risk Assessment

Coming soon!

What other kits do you need? We can easily systematize your continuity management or disaster recovery problem so you have your bases covered. Let us know what you’re looking for!

Disaster Planning Checklist

Just like a simple checklist for car or home maintenance, your business needs emergency management maintenance as well. For your convenience here’s a Business Service Checklist that I developed for my use.  It fits on a single page all the business maintenance tasks that need regular attention, but which are forgotten easily.  I hope you find it useful!  Please add your own recommendations in the comments section.

Every 3 months:

• Check first aid kit, replenish supplies as necessary.
• Check employee roster to make sure numbers are correct.
• Drill generator or back up power capabilities.

 

Every 6 months:

• Test your crisis communication plan.
• Exercise your plans.
• Hold mock evacuation of your facility. Invite local fire department to take part and give recommendations.

 

Every year:

• Have fire extinguishers inspected by licensed professional.
• Have AED (automated external defibrillator) inspected and, if necessary, recharged.
• Replace batteries in supply kits, emergency exit lighting, etc.
• Review your risks.  What’s changed?
• Update your response, recovery and resumption plans.
• Review insurance coverage.
• Have local fire & police departments do a walk through of your facility.  Each brings a unique and new perspective to safety, vulnerabilities and security improvements.  This also keeps you in touch with the people who would be responding to emergencies at your facilities.  During an emergency is NOT the best time to get introduced!
• Employee safety training & awareness – choose a specific day every year to employee safety and awareness. September is National Preparedness Month and is ideal.  There are  various activities to take part in across the  nation.  Many service providers host free seminars and offer preparedness kits.  Hold your own personal and professional prep seminars. Make it fun! Hold safety competitions, get employees involved. Recognize employees or departments with high safety track records.   Distribute resources like home safety kit fact sheets. Highlight office safety initiatives like reporting spills, extinguisher training or expert audits.

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