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Praise for Business Continuity Management

Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

"In Business Continuity Management, Blyth has once again produced a comprehensive guide to the subject. Whether a multinational organization looking to counter the threat of global terrorism or a local business planning against loss of sensitive data, this book provides a well structured and useful guide to construction and implementation of Incident Management Plans. Blyth provides not only the theory and background to his subject but also invaluable template guidelines for many of the incidents which we all should prepare for."

–Joe PughHead of European Project Management, Panasonic

"Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Management Plan very effectively details how and what a company should include in composing and executing a crisis management plan. This book is a must read for both laymen and experts alike because it itemizes the most relevant facts within silos that are comprehensive enough for the expert to find value in, yet written in a manner that a layman can derive tangible value. The incident response guidelines, broken down by the event type, provide an extremely useful tool that bring immediate value to the reader."

–Robert G. Molina Jr.Global Security ManagerLyondellBasell

"For a business of any consequence to not have a business continuity plan is like a Boy Scout not having a first aid kit. Advanced preparation and planning enable a business to deal with a crisis and sooner or later every business will face a crisis of some nature. Author Michael Blyth hits the nail on the head with his well organized book that weaves together business continuity planning, incident management, and dealing with risks."

–John P. ChamberlainExecutive DirectorESC

"Mike Blyth has produced another book, which is thought–provoking and a clear example of the multilayered guidelines that companies should be encouraged to incorporate into their BCP. A worthy read for anyone in business, irrespective of managerial level. The business model and structure achieved will help determine the time and shape of any crisis. The individual knowledge and understanding so achieved, interlinked with a robust BCP, will determine the optimum time and cost to recover from crisis."

–Stephen AckroydBMI Security Manager, Middle East/Africa/Asia

"In the global economy, the guidelines presented by Michael Blyth are an essential component for doing business worldwide. He has thought of every angle. In ultra–sensitive environments like Afghanistan, his recommendations will be widely applied."

–Dr. Thomas Stauffer President/CEO, American University of Afghanistan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #702076 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 362 pages

From the Inside Flap
Business Continuity Management

Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

Few businesses can afford to shut down for an extended period of time, regardless of the cause. If the past few years have taught us anything, it′s that disaster can strike in any shape, at any time. Be prepared with the time–tested strategies in Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan and protect your employees while ensuring your company survives the unimaginable.

Written by Michael Blyth–one of the world′s foremost consultants in the field of business contingency management–this book provides cost–conscious executives with a structured, sustainable, and time–tested blueprint toward developing an individualized strategic business continuity program. This timely book urges security managers, HR directors, program managers, and CEOs to manage nonfinancial crises to protect your company and its employees. Discussions include:

• Incident management versus crisis response

• Crisis management structures

• Crisis flows and organizational responses

• Leveraging internal and external resources

• Effective crisis communications

• Clear decision–making authorities

• Trigger plans and alert states

• Training and resources

• Designing and structuring policies and plans

• Monitoring crisis management programs

• Stages of disasters

• Emergency preparedness

• Emergency situation management

• Crisis Leadership

• Over 40 different crisis scenariosz

Developing and utilizing a business continuity plan protects your company, its personnel, facilities, materials, and activities from the broad spectrum of risks that face businesses and government agencies on a daily basis, whether at home or internationally. Business Continuity Management presents concepts that can be applied in part, or full, to your business, regardless of its size or number of employees. The comprehensive spectrum of useful concepts, approaches and systems, as well as specific management guidelines and report templates for over forty risk types, will enable you to develop and sustain a continuity management plan essential to compete, win, and safely operate within the complex and fluid global marketplace.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Business Continuity Management

Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

"In Business Continuity Management, Blyth has once again produced a comprehensive guide to the subject. Whether a multinational organization looking to counter the threat of global terrorism or a local business planning against loss of sensitive data, this book provides a well structured and useful guide to construction and implementation of Incident Management Plans. Blyth provides not only the theory and background to his subject but also invaluable template guidelines for many of the incidents which we all should prepare for."

–Joe PughHead of European Project Management, Panasonic

"Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Management Plan very effectively details how and what a company should include in composing and executing a crisis management plan. This book is a must read for both laymen and experts alike because it itemizes the most relevant facts within silos that are comprehensive enough for the expert to find value in, yet written in a manner that a layman can derive tangible value. The incident response guidelines, broken down by the event type, provide an extremely useful tool that bring immediate value to the reader."

–Robert G. Molina Jr.Global Security ManagerLyondellBasell

"For a business of any consequence to not have a business continuity plan is like a Boy Scout not having a first aid kit. Advanced preparation and planning enable a business to deal with a crisis and sooner or later every business will face a crisis of some nature. Author Michael Blyth hits the nail on the head with his well organized book that weaves together business continuity planning, incident management, and dealing with risks."

–John P. ChamberlainExecutive DirectorESC

"Mike Blyth has produced another book, which is thought–provoking and a clear example of the multilayered guidelines that companies should be encouraged to incorporate into their BCP. A worthy read for anyone in business, irrespective of managerial level. The business model and structure achieved will help determine the time and shape of any crisis. The individual knowledge and understanding so achieved, interlinked with a robust BCP, will determine the optimum time and cost to recover from crisis."

–Stephen AckroydBMI Security Manager, Middle East/Africa/Asia

"In the global economy, the guidelines presented by Michael Blyth are an essential component for doing business worldwide. He has thought of every angle. In ultra–sensitive environments like Afghanistan, his recommendations will be widely applied."

–Dr. Thomas Stauffer President/CEO, American University of Afghanistan

About the Author

Michael Blyth is Director of Risk Strategies for RSM Consulting, a risk management and training company. He holds a master′s degree in security management and has eighteen years of management and operational experience within over thirty–two countries, providing strategic advisory services and management training for large multinationals and government agencies.?He is highly experienced in providing corporate risk mitigation and vulnerability assessments, multi–billion dollar market entry program risk solutions and national crisis management plans, as well as a wide spectrum of strategic policies and plans within high–risk environments for ambassadors, major oil and gas programs, development organizations and communications network corporations. He can be contacted at: Mike.Blyth@RSMConsulting.us