Webinars

  July 29, 2009 at 02:00PM ET

A recent national survey finds that 1 in 5 businesses still does not have a business continuity plan. In fact, nearly 30 percent of U.S. businesses do not even consider business continuity planning a priority.

Yet, when disaster strikes, 43 percent of businesses affected never sufficiently recover to resume business.

Case in point, Cedar Rapids, IA: Roughly one year after last spring’s devastating floods in the Midwest, the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce investigated how 650 area businesses were faring today, and discovered that 307 of them had simply vanished.

Unfortunately, while more businesses have adopted disaster plans in recent years, many companies still fail to do an effective job of recovering from a crisis event—slow to return to business as usual causing incalculable loss.

This interactive webinar will provide members of crisis management teams with critical strategies and planning tools to prevent financial loss by responding effectively to crisis events.

In a world in which disasters and crises are becoming the norm, there’s no time like now to begin to examine (or re-examine) your organization’s disaster preparedness and continuity planning. To get started, join IOMA and security and risk management expert Michael Blythe for this informative interactive webinar and Q&A on July 29th at 2PM ET.

In just 90 minutes, you’ll learn:

• Critical steps for ensuring effective coordination between disaster team members to enable a swift, safe, and effective return to business.
• Safety and security measures to meet critical recovery needs and minimize delays.
• A planning tool to reliably map your capabilities and resources to identify weaknesses and the need for external resources.
• Actions to take during stable periods to remain primed to recover from disaster
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• Staging criteria to move you in a structures way from crisis response to business recovery.
• A Gantt chart for mapping timelines against critical needs and triggers.
• Virtual tabletop exercise to see new lesson put into practical use.
• Common failure points in responding to crisis event and how to prevent them to ensure an orderly resumption of business.

You'll also get answers to your toughest questions in the LIVE Q&A session following the presentation. AND you can invite your whole department, for one low price.

Register today for just $275 – IOMA subscribers pay just $245!

Who Should Attend:

• Security executives
• Safety directors
• Risk management professionals
• Senior management
• Human Resources directors
• Business Continuity/Resiliency department employees
• Members of the crisis response and disaster planning teams

FEATURED FACULTY:

Michael Blythe

Director of Strategic Consulting & Training Services for Risk and Security Management Consulting. Author of Security and Risk Management: Protecting People and Sites Worldwide and Business Continuity Management.

Michael Blyth has held various corporate Vice President appointments for international security and risk management companies, within both operational risk management and business strategies, combining a wealth of international experience and knowledge with a Masters Degree in Security Management. Extensively traveled, living or working in over 34 countries, including high risk environments. Mike assists commercial and government groups with both strategic and operational tailored solutions for global enterprises, including nuclear, hydrocarbon, power and water, aviation and maritime, construction, development and consulting sectors. Mike has designed, implemented and managed large scale and multi-national construction and oil and gas programs within high risk countries, as well as supporting significant commercial investments into such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Libya and Pakistan. Mike has also assisted major construction programs in mitigating eco-terrorist threats within the United States. He is the author of Security and Risk Management: Protecting People and Sites Worldwide and Business Continuity Management.