Whitepapers


Should You Buy Automated Planning Software?

Apr 07, 2010

Most companies want automated planning software for one of the following reasons: to simplify their plan development efforts (i.e., templates), to speed their plan development efforts, to simplify and consolidate their maintenance efforts, or to distribute their maintenance efforts to the end-user business proponents. Each of these reasons at first seems sound. However, actual experience across a large number of different planning packages and a large number of different companies of different types and sizes reveals a disturbing trend of repeating problems.


Pandemic Operations

Apr 06, 2010

Planning for a pandemic typically requires six aspects of preparedness.


IBPD: The BIA Alternative

Apr 06, 2010

The goal of a tradition BIA is sound in theory: to identify and prioritize the business' critical processes relative to the losses that would result from their interruption, and then to defind the most cost- and operationatlly effective recovery architecture to reover those processes in the aftermath of a disaster. However, in practice, this process repeatedly fails to produce the desired results.


Large Scale BC Software Deployment: Failures and Solutions

Apr 01, 2010

COOP Systems has learned that the implementation of large scale Business Continuity (BC) software projects is fundamentally different. This paper explores why these programs often fall short of their objectives. We start by making observations about actual project problems the authors have witnessed. After reviewing senior management needs, three basic principles are defined to ensure effective deployment and project success.


Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business

Nov 20, 2009

An object-oriented framework and methodology.


Pandemic Planning for the Organization: Hype or Hyper-Critical?

Nov 20, 2009

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The Personal Side of Business Continuity

Nov 20, 2009

Addressing human capital management issues during crises.


Virtualizing Disaster Recovery Helps Ensure Business Resiliency While Cutting Operating Costs

Nov 20, 2009

Virtualization doesn’t stop with servers and storage devices—it’s a springboard for innovation.