Business Continuity Management: Global Best Practices eBook

Hiles has designed the book for readers on three distinct levels: Initiate, Foundation, and Practitioner. Each chapter ends with an Action Plan, pinpointing the primary message of the chapter and a Business Continuity Road Map, outlining the actions for the reader at that level.

NEW in the 4th Edition:

• Supply chain risk — extensive chapter with valuable advice on contracting.
• Standards — timely information and analysis of global/country-specific standards, with detailed appendices on ISO 22301/22313 and NFPA 1600.
• New technologies and their impact – mobile computing, cloud computing, bring your own device, Internet of things, and more.
• Case studies – vivid examples of crises and disruptions and responses to them.
• Horizon scanning of new risks – and a hint of the future of BCM.
• Professional certification and training – explores issues so important to your career.
• Proven techniques to win consensus on BC strategy and planning.
• BCP testing – advice and suggestions on conducting a successful exercise or test of your plan
• To assist with learning — chapter learning objectives, case studies, real-life examples, self-examination and discussion questions, forms, checklists, charts and graphs, glossary, and index.

Downloadable resources and tools – hundreds of pages, including project plans, risk analysis forms, BIA spreadsheets, BC plan formats, and more.

Instructional Materials — valuable classroom tools, including Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, and slides — available for use by approved adopters in college courses and professional development training.