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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>Sydney Round Table Event &#8211; Testing Business Continuity Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 23:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>Sydney&#8217;s F3 Traffic Debacle has lessons for us in Business Continuity Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity Testing]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Choosing a Business Continuity Recovery Site</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/choosing-a-business-continuity-recovery-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/choosing-a-business-continuity-recovery-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If an organization experiences a ‘denial of access’ or ‘loss of premises’ due to incidents such as extended power outage, flood or fire, an alternate location for critical business processes and staff needs to be established. An Alternate Site is the premises to which a business unit may transfer its operations in the event of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Continuity Testing Isn&#8217;t a Pass or Fail Exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.opscentre.com.au/blog/business_continuity_testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) need to be regularly tested and updated to ensure accuracy and effective recovery in the event of a disruption. Testing (sometimes referred to as Exercising) shouldn’t be viewed as a Pass or Fail exercise as every test is an opportunity to find potential problems with your plan and to have an [...]]]></description>
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