Building an Enterprise‐Wide Business Continuity Program

Citation

Okolita, K. (2010), "Building an Enterprise‐Wide Business Continuity Program", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 516-516. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2010.19.4.516.3

The corporate risks for failing to plan for “the big one,” writes Okolita, fall into three broad categories:

[…] financial (how much money the corporation stands to lose), reputational (how badly the corporation will be perceived by its customers and its shareholders), and regulatory (fines or penalties incurred, lawsuits filed against them).

The trouble is, “No one believes in the ‘the big one.’ Even after September 11, convincing leadership of the need for a plan is hard.”

Okolita offers strategies for selling a business continuity plan to management, then provides the steps needed to get one in place that actually works. Considering how specialized much of the material is, the book is surprisingly easy to read as Okolita spices up the program with anecdotes from her own experience in corporate disaster planning.