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Avoiding Disaster: How to Keep Your Business Going When Catastrophe Strikes

By John Laye

Five stars! Written for the corporate manager/executive tasked with developing and/or managing the strategic function the author calls 'disaster avoidance.' A must read for everyone who wants to ensure the protection and the continuity of their business.

Business Continuity: Best Practices

Based on the core units of competence for Business Continuity, as established by the Business Continuity Institute and Disaster Recovery Institute International.

Managing Crises Before They Happen: What Every Executive and Manager Needs to Know About Crisis Management -

shows how crisis management starts with mechanisms in place long before crises occur. Promotes continuous proactive measures that can prevent a crisis or limit its impact. The author sees crisis management as "...inherently the process of seeing and dealing with larger, whole systems.”

The Definitive Guide to Business Continuity Management

Comprehensive conceptual and practical guidance for managers and businesses who want to establish a strategy for protecting their organization from disruption and disaster.

Business Continuity Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide with Planning Forms & Diskette

A logical and plain-English step-by-step guide to business continuity planning. The forms and disk can help you quickly create a business continuity plan.

Disaster Recovery Planning

This book examines the causes of computer system failures, and explains how to create a disaster recovery plan to prevent disasters or minimize the impact of disasters that cannot be avoided. It provides a detailed analysis of disaster avoidance systems and also covers the politics of disaster recovery planning.

Emergency Management Planning Handbook

This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to emergency management planning in the manufacturing, process, and service industries. It shows managers how to develop and maintain effective emergency management plans for all major hazards, and describes what various companies are going to implement programs.

Computer-Related Risks

Based on data gathered by the author as part of ACM's International Risks Forum, this book contains accounts of mishaps attributed to computers and the people using them--some humorous, and some tragic. Neumann characterizes different kinds of computer-related risks, discusses risk causes and effects, and considers their implications. He also suggests ways to minimize risks in the future.

Safeware: System Safety and Computers

This book examines past accidents and building safe electromechanical systems. One lesson is that most accidents are not the result of unknown scientific principles but rather of a failure to apply well-known, standard engineering practices. A second lesson is that accidents will not be prevented by technological fixes alone, but will require control of all aspects of the development and operation of the system. The features of a methodology for building safety-critical systems are outlined.

Beyond Value at Risk : The New Science of Risk Management (Wiley Series in Financial Engineering)

Risk Management and Analysis

Measuring and Modeling Financial Risk (Wiley Series in Financial Engineering)

Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance

Focusing on a systematic approach to risk management, this authoritative text includes more that a dozen chapter highlighting specific techniques to enhance organizational risk identification, assessment, and management, all within the project and program environments. The appendixes are rich with insight on applying probability, statistics, and other complex tools.