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		<title>Pandemics and Business Continuity Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Disaster Recovery Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandemic Plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pandemics are good material for Hollywood disaster films. They also feature in various disaster recovery planning documents issued by governments as advice, or by private sector organisations as disaster recovery plans. In true Hollywood style, projected pandemics are often almost too big to be believable. That makes them great subjects of conversation at the coffee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does a Business Continuity Consultant Interfere?</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/does-a-business-continuity-consultant-interfere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/does-a-business-continuity-consultant-interfere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interference has negative connotations, and a business continuity consultant should bring something positive, not negative, to an organisation. However, if an organisation is to derive any benefit from the services of a BC consultant, there has to be change at some level. Change has to be driven or at least guided. Change is disruptive by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Private Sector Makes its Business Continuity Planning Public</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/when-the-private-sector-makes-its-business-continuity-planning-public/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/when-the-private-sector-makes-its-business-continuity-planning-public/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Planning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Putting your money where your mouth is” is as true of business continuity planning as of anything else. Government agencies often set an example in this respect, making their BC plans readily available and free of charge. That doesn’t mean that there’s no need for constructive criticism. Some of the plans are well thought-out and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMB Disaster Recovery Plan Templates and the 3P Principle</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/smb-disaster-recovery-plan-templates-and-the-3p-principle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/smb-disaster-recovery-plan-templates-and-the-3p-principle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster recovery plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster recovery plan template]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smb]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Small and medium businesses often rely on being nimble enough in the market to compete with big businesses. A “disaster recovery plan template for SMBs” would ideally take that into account, covering all the different aspects of such businesses, while remaining concise enough to facilitate updates as business configurations change with market conditions. The trouble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Plans and Lessons Learned</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-plans-and-lessons-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Learn from your mistakes” is a good motto and business continuity plans are no exception. In the previous post, “Disaster Recovery Plan – the Map is Not the Territory”, we described how ASCDI (Association of Service and Computer Dealers International) found out that in a hurricane its disaster recovery plan was less than perfect. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster Recovery Plan – the Map is Not the Territory</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/disaster-recovery-plan-the-map-is-not-the-territory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/disaster-recovery-plan-the-map-is-not-the-territory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster recovery events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster recovery plan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it’s encouraging to hear about perfect disaster recovery plans and outstanding recoveries, it’s also refreshing from time to time to hear about frank accounts of recoveries that weren’t so perfect. This isn’t for gloating. It’s for tempering optimism with reality and remembering that “the map is not the territory”. In other words, what you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rightsizing Your Business Continuity Consultant</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/rightsizing-your-business-continuity-consultant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/rightsizing-your-business-continuity-consultant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Consultant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Consulting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course, what we really mean is rightsizing the services a business continuity consultant can provide. How much or how little an organisation decides to involve an external consultant will depend on the extent of business continuity planning needs, and how that organisation is set up to handle them. Ideally, you’ll leverage the involvement of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Often Should A Business Continuity Plan Be Tested?</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/how-often-should-a-business-continuity-plan-be-tested/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/how-often-should-a-business-continuity-plan-be-tested/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business continuity plan test]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How Often Should A Business Continuity Plan Be Tested]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How often should you test or &#8216;exercise&#8217; your business continuity plan? How long is a piece of string? The answer to both questions is of course – it depends. It depends on the nature of your business, the rate of change in your activity and your industry sector and whether or not you’ve had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Management or Leadership?</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-management-or-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business-continuity-management-or-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhollebecq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/?p=597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Business continuity management might be defined as “doing things right” in business continuity. Leadership on the other hand is doing the right things. In a world where businesses and threats to businesses change rapidly, management in a general sense isn’t sufficient. Unless someone carries the torch of leadership, any organisation is ultimately doomed because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting BC In Through The Virtualisation Back Door</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/getting-bc-in-through-the-virtualisation-back-door/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/getting-bc-in-through-the-virtualisation-back-door/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMWare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be pragmatic. While it would be great to have the business case for business continuity generally agreed in an organisation, it’s not always that simple. So if there’s an opportunity for business continuity to get into a business on the coattails of some other project, it may merit consideration. With this [...]]]></description>
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