Coronavirus Business Continuity Management Bundle

Business Continuity Risk Management Pack

Assess the risks and threats that are unique to your organization, and ensure your business is prepared for disaster and able to recover critical business functions as quickly as possible.

Aligned to international best-practice frameworks, this pack is designed to help you prepare a recovery strategy and develop tailored business continuity plans.

The pack includes:

Risk Assessment Procedure - Learn how to conduct business continuity risk assessments with this tool, which includes guidance on risk identification, how to categorize risks and how to conduct a risk analysis and evaluation.

Risk Register/Treatment Plan - Identify and analyse your organization’s risks so you can develop plans for mitigating them. This tool will help you establish the impact criteria and likelihood scale.

Business Impact Analysis Tool - A business impact analysis identifies your key processes and determines how quickly you need to restore functionality in the event of a disruption. You can use this information to determine your recovery strategies and develop business continuity plans.

Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat

A must-have for organizations during the coronavirus pandemic, this book explains how to mitigate the risk and limit the damage of pandemic incidents. Drawing on real-life case studies, it considers how pandemics affect organizations – including operating with a depleted workforce – and offers guidance on creating and validating a pandemic plan for your business.

The book covers:

• Pandemic plan considerations, including:
• Working from home
• Operating with a depleted workforce
• Supply chain management
• Crisis management roles and responsibilities
• Communications and media plans
• SARS and norovirus case studies.
• Actions at a global, national, corporate and individual level.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Third Edition

Implementing business continuity and disaster recovery can help protect your organization in times of crisis. This book offers guidance on establishing a disaster recovery plan, and how to minimise your risk and safeguard against viruses and phishing scams. It also highlights the major causes of IT failure and disaster to help you implement effective contingency plans.

The book covers:

• How to establish a disaster recovery plan.
• Minimising the risks to your business.
• The major causes of IT failure and disaster.
• Develop effective contingency plans.
• Practical examples of various disasters, including data disasters, virus disasters, communication system disasters, software disasters, data center disasters, IT staff member disasters, IT contractor disasters, and IT project failures.

Making a Success of Managing and Working Remotely

Reap the rewards of remote working by learning how to effectively manage your team.

The book covers:

• The challenges of managing and working remotely.
• Creating team cohesion and avoiding isolation.
• Technology as an enabler for remote working.
• Top tips for managing and working remotely.
• Preparing to work remotely.
• Managing change.

Using case studies, research and practical advice, the book will help employees and managers understand how they should approach and evaluate working remotely, balancing work and personal demands to deliver desired outcomes.

Changing How You Manage and Communicate Change

Change can affect everyone differently, so businesses must be prepared when implementing organizational changes. Specifically written for the IT industry, this book is suitable for anyone who needs to lead change within their organization. 

The book covers:

• Effective management of inevitable changes.
• Fine-tuning your management skills by getting a better understanding of your own reactions to change as well as those of users, customers, suppliers, and employees.
• Understanding what is unique about your business and why a one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t work.
• How to make your change management plan more flexible.
• How the introduction of change affects productivity and what you can do to prepare.
• Helping people to cope with change more positively and effectively.