Your disaster management plan is in place and staff have been trained in its implementation. You know how to respond to damage to your stock and other physical assets. But how will you minimise interruption to your mission critical services in the event of a disaster? Learn to develop business or service continuity plans to respond quickly and effectively in the event of a disaster on this practical one-day course.
Benefits of attending
By the end of the course participants will have:
- gained an understanding of what business/service continuity is
- looked at the relationship between disaster management and business/service recovery
- discovered the importance of business continuity planning
- identified the key issues in business recovery planning and what a plan might include
- explored examples of business recovery in libraries
- participated in a business recovery simulation
Programme
- What do we mean by business and service continuity? How does it relate to disaster management? Why is business continuity planning important?
- The key issues in business and service continuity planning
- Elements of a business recovery plan
- Who does what in business recovery?
- Practical business continuity simulation exercise
- Feedback from the exercise
- Summary of lessons learnt
Places are limited to: 20
09.15 Registration - 09.45 Start - 13.00 Lunch - 16.30 Close
Who should attend?
Library and information professionals, records managers and archivists working in middle and senior management in public, academic and private sector organisations who are responsible for delivering services, and who do not have a business continuity plan.
Course leader
Mary Auckland
Mary is an independent consultant and trainer with substantial practical senior management experience following a long career in academic libraries.
Fees
CILIP personal member: £220 + VAT
CILIP organisation member: £265 + VAT
Non members: £310 + VAT
Upcoming dates
Currently no dates available