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		<title>The telecommunications industry and business continuity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Emergency Communications Plan drawn up by the US Government in 2008 makes interesting reading. In its introductory section, it states that “during the last three decades, the nation has witnessed how inadequate emergency communications capabilities can adversely affect response and recovery efforts”. How many private enterprises would have achieved sufficient business continuity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business continuity test scenarios – do you have to “pull the plug”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business continuity test scenarios are an integral part of good Business Continuity planning, on two conditions: they test for the right things; and that they are realistic in how they test. It’s important to keep the end goal in mind. A simple definition of business continuity can be helpful here, such as the one from [...]]]></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>
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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>Getting real with CBCP &#8211; Certified Business Continuity Professional</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/getting-real-with-cbcp-certified-business-continuity-professional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/getting-real-with-cbcp-certified-business-continuity-professional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The real power of information is when it’s applied. When theory turns into practice, or to use another expression, where the rubber meets the road. Business continuity is no exception. An organisation looking for someone with the right capabilities for a business continuity management role will want two things: in-depth understanding of the principles of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Round Table Event &#8211; Testing Business Continuity Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/sydney-round-table-event-testing-business-continuity-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 23:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OpsCentre&#8217;s Managing Director, Rod Crowder, will be facilitating a round table event on behalf of Continuity Forum, to be held 29th Jun 2011. The topic is Business Continuity Testing/Exercising. For more information and registration details please go to the Continuity Forum website here. We hope to see you there.]]></description>
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		<title>Embedding Business Continuity Management into your organisation&#8217;s culture</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/embedding-business-continuity-management-into-your-organisations-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/embedding-business-continuity-management-into-your-organisations-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your business continuity and IT disaster recovery plans are living documents that need to continually evolve otherwise they will stagnate. If you maintain and exercise your plan it will evolve along with your organisation, helping you to be prepared should a business interruption strike. Here are OpsCentre&#8217;s top 5 tips on how to keep the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney&#8217;s F3 Traffic Debacle has lessons for us in Business Continuity Management</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/sydneys-f3-traffic-debacle-has-lessons-for-us-in-business-continuity-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/sydneys-f3-traffic-debacle-has-lessons-for-us-in-business-continuity-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, motorists were stranded for up to 9 hours on Sydney’s F3 Motorway due to a traffic incident.  Emergency plans to implement ‘contra-flow’ arrangements to get the traffic moving again were not implemented until many hours into this incident whilst people endured hours waiting in their cars with no water being distrubuted to them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Test Scenarios</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-test-scenarios/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-test-scenarios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Test Scenarios]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Testing BC and DR planning is an essential component of any “healthy” continuity management program and as such, should be undertaken on a regular basis.  While this is generally “good practice,” organisations are often under internal and external compliance and governance pressures to complete additional and more complex or mature testing regimes. There is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Habits of Highly Effective Business Continuity</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/7-habits-of-highly-effective-business-continuity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/7-habits-of-highly-effective-business-continuity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The Senior Executive actively supports Business Continuity The CEO\Director\General Manager that believes in and wants a functional Business Continuity program in place is a critical success factor. To have a senior Executive that is responsible for setting the priorities and vision for the organisation to stand behind BCP and communicate this to the staff is a powerful change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Software Benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-software-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-software-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Maintenance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many organisations utilise software to create, support, maintain, distribute and test their Business Continuity Plans and ensure business survival in any emergency. Regardless of size, most companies can benefit greatly from the use of Business Continuity software and many options exist for its implementation and plan maintenance strategies. Some of the direct benefits that Business [...]]]></description>
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