Building resilience in rapidly urbanising Asia: International conference to bring back your business back to normalcy if there’s a crisis

Building resilience in rapidly urbanising Asia: International conference to bring back your business back to normalcy if there’s a crisis

• When your hotel is bombed, how long would it take for your emergency team to save your guests?
• Are you sure that your crisis management plan will work if a crises happen?
• How long will it take you to reach everyone on the management committee if your organisation had a crisis at 2.00pm on a public holiday?
• How much information would your organisation give out if it has a crisis?

Hypothetical sounding, but didn’t it seem like a hoax when someone told you that the WTC Twin Towers has fallen?

Crises occur without clues or warning signals, except perhaps the early seismic monitoring and scientific surveillance for earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Everyone can still recall the trauma of recent major crises – such as the LA forest fire threatening thousands of homes, Victorian bushfires killing 200 in Australia, the Jakarta bomb attacks at two major hotels, the Timor Sea oil spill, and the Morakot typhoon – all affecting thousands of businesses, thousands of lives, and millions of dollars in economic costs. What would you have done if this happened to you instead of them?

Since the 9/11 attacks in New York and amid increasing threats from terrorism and climate change, it seems, If you’re not prepared for all threats, you’re not prepared for any.

70% of Fortune 500 organisations have increased purchases in managing organisational disasters and CEOs of Inc’s top 100 list have already put disaster preparedness, response and recovery at the top of their boardroom agendas.

With over 50% of the total world’s disasters happening in Asia, RESILIENCE means that your organisation is ready to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from organisational threats, whether from Acts of God, mechanical problems, human errors or management decisions (or indecision).

Studies show that RESILIENCE even substantially increases your bottomline and protects your business by at least 50%!

By investing in EMPRR 2009 Global Summit, you will receive the following benefits:

• You will UPDATE your crisis management, organisational response and business continuity manual from multi-hazard, multi-sector and full cycle approaches, allowing you to restore order and business continuity, protect organisational assets from further damage and protect and ensure safety of people

• You will IMPROVE your response time, organisational notification system, disclosure and information channels, whilst not compromising vital or confidential resources and maintain reputation and credibility internally and externally

• You will BUILD rapport with various partners and service providers and focus your efforts on resources and infrastructure you need to contain and ensure that the crisis will discontinue and not escalate or spread further and bring back your business to normalcy

Top organisations and businesses have already joined us including:

Singapore Civil Defence Force • Department of Transportation and Communications • Ministry of Defence • New South Wales
Fire Brigades • Siam Bank • Ben-Gurion International Airport • Communicable Disease Control • Toronto Public Health • PTIT Focus • Blue Energy • ConocoPhillips • Ministry of Home Affairs • International Association of Emergency Managers • National Science & Technology Center for Disaster Recovery • GVK Emergency Management Research Institute • Philippine Coast Guard • Risk First Consultancy • Business Continuity Institute • BCP Asia • IAEM CEM Commission • Nepal Center for Disaster Management • ASEAN Secretariat • Canadian Red Cross • Kyoto University • Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority • APEC • Asian Disaster Preparedness Center • Aviation
Security Company Limited • Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation • French Regional Police Attache • Singapore Contractors Association Limited • Independent Power Producers Forum • Utilis S.A.S • Kyoto University • White & Case • Airports Council International • Forbes Calamity Prevention • many more...

EMPRR 2009 Global Summit is your rare opportunity to benefit from a content –rich program that links emergency management (response), business continuity and facilities management, tackling how to save lives, secure your property and information and bring back your organisation to normalcy in the event of a disaster or crises.

You only need to invest SGD 1,499 to benefit from a full 2-day conference plus 3 workshops on crisis management for leaders, BCM testing and setting up a crisis command post. Plus – just add SGD 600 and you can benefit from an additional full-day BCM Implementation Seminar, in line with the BCI’s GPG and BSI’s PAS56, conducted by the Business Continuity Institute and receive your certificate of completion. Visit our website at www.arcmediaglobal.com/emprr09.

Sharpen your saw and ensure that your business keeps functioning even through the worst of crises! Call us on +65 6844 2080 or email info@arcmediaglobal.com to register.

Warmest regards,

Paul Adams, Marketing Manager

Pandemic, emergencies, disasters and their impact on business continuity

I've managed to come across a very compelling business-case why business continuity professionals, facilities managers and emergency reasponders need to know a more encompasssing knowledge of each other's tasks, which also apply to small businesses.

Is your BCM robust enough to have a second back up? Vice versa, is your emergency response effective enough to ensure business continuity?

More of this will be discussed at EMPRR 2009 (24-25 November 2009, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore) in the panel discussion on Day. For more info log on to www.arcmediaglobal.com/emprr09.

An excerpt below

Thursday August 6th, 2009

Pandemic : business continuity

Today, we are used to see colleagues appear at the office, as if they would never be absent more than one day. With this “flou artistique” around the flu we have to take into account that key people may be “out of business” for two weeks. It is no problem, since most of the people can have a backup. What if this backup is also down ?

We do define for ourselves a backup and a second backup. The first person typically knows the business, whereas the second needs to be trained on the tasks to be executed “in case of”. What is crucial or not to insure the continuity of our respective businesses ?

(This is actually interesting, because we now have to tell people the essence of our jobs, which leads to a reconsidering our priorities

Procedures need to be explained and perhaps even made lighter, since there are less people to execute the different steps. What has to be done immediately, what can be postponed until the return of the key people?

For larger companies, things can be solved because the pool of people is large. But for small companies, people are already executing several (different) jobs simultaneously. How can these people become even more multidisciplinary ?

Systems have to be reconsidered. How do you manage them remotely ? How do you restart a crashed server remotely ? And how does a non-IT guy do this ? If you have a disaster recovery site as a backup for your IT, how do you manage a fallback with less and unskilled people ?

We are in any case reconsidering our procedures, backups, business continuity plans and try to consider many different scenarios.

Just in case of.

http://www.onemagazine.be/2009/08/06/pandemic-business-contuity/