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	<title>OpsCentre&#039;s Business Continuity Blog &#187; Business Continuity Plan</title>
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		<title>Innovation in business continuity plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation in business continuity doesn’t always have to be technological, as one award-winning approach to a business continuity plan has shown. Sometimes the real innovation is simply in the point of view – the “how” of business continuity, instead of the “what”. That was what the New South Wales Police Force revolutionized to win the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving towards a business case for business continuity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making the business case for business continuity is an area that companies struggle with. Whereas fires and explosions can have people’s imaginations working feverishly, when a little time goes by and they don’t happen, they get relegated to a “to do” list that might get done by the IT department, but not by others. IT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business continuity plan best practice – best for whom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even businesses that compete in the same market may be very different in structure and operations. For a generic approach, business continuity best practice is available in any number of books or training courses, but best practice for the detail of what goes into your plan may be harder to come by. The enterprise next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity and Common Risks for Small Businesses</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-and-common-risks-for-small-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Impact Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity for Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Risks for Small Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes small businesses different to bigger ones when it comes to business continuity? Common risks for small businesses are linked to their operations being confined to one specific sector and one geographical location. They don’t have the possibilities of mitigation available to larger, more diverse, distributed companies. Disaster can strike all of their resources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for an exceptional event that happens every year</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/preparing-for-an-exceptional-event-that-happens-every-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the city where your business runs is hosting the Olympic Games or similar, then you’ll be facing a one-off exceptional event. As such, you may need to take exceptional measures in order to ensure business continuity. For events of this magnitude, organisers or municipal agencies often produce continuity guidelines to help avoid the worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you get the organisation to recognise the importance of Business Continuity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Testing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sure, people in an organisation want business to go on successfully. Their jobs, families and futures depend on it. If you ask them what would happen if systems suddenly crashed, if access to their workspace was blocked, they’ll probably agree it would be a disaster. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIOs warned to prioritise governance and business continuity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Interruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent natural disasters have spurred warnings to forgo a reactive approach to governance. In this Computerworld article, HopgoodGanim&#8217;s IT lawyers are reminded of the importance of  prioritising ICT governance and business continuity to minimise risk to the business, in the wake of the recent natural disasters plaguing the nation and indeed the world. Click here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Planning &#8211; More Than Just Disaster Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-planning-more-than-just-disaster-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-planning-more-than-just-disaster-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmartin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christchurch Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disasters in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia have put BCP into sharp focus. In this article, Allan Davies provides advice he gleaned the hard way from working through numerous disasters, and suggests that CIO&#8217;s need to think in broader terms than just IT disaster recovery. He outlines nine valuable lessons that should be incorporated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Supplier Resilience as part of Business Continuity Management</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/key-supplier-resilience-as-part-of-business-continuity-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/key-supplier-resilience-as-part-of-business-continuity-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Single Point of Failure]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not enough just to look at the resilience strategies for within your organization, the entire supply chain needs to be considered for your critical business functions. Are you reliant on a single supplier for any key products or services? If you have alternate suppliers, are they geographically separate or in other ways diverse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Planning for Small to Medium Enterprise</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-planning-for-small-to-medium-enterprise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-planning-for-small-to-medium-enterprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider the scenario of losing your primary premises due to fire. Can you answer these questions? - How much revenue would you lose being out of action for a day, a week or a month? - Have you got an alternate location to operate your business from? - Is your data regularly sent off site [...]]]></description>
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