BCP News for Multinational Companies

BCP magazines must make money! New Continuity Insights magazine focuses on U.S. corporate BCP, competing head on with Contingency Planning & Management magazine. Former CP&M publisher Bob Nakao now publishes this rival. To see the current issue or to subscribe, click here. Subscriptions are US$48 per year outside the U.S.; they’re free in North America.

Emergency! Need to notify lots of people quickly? Check these notification services: Envoy Worldwide lets you initiate voice and text messaging to emergency teams from your browser or your phone; there’s a good Flash-enabled demo on the site. AlertCast lets you send your own recorded voice messages to separate lists of recipients. Notify Quick offers notification plans at different prices, based on the speed of notification. All three companies are based in the U.S.

BCP Web Presentation The U.S. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council has updated its 1996 BCP guidelines for banks. Now they focus on testing, and on business resumption; they de-emphasize IT disaster recovery. There’s a good explanation of the changes in this slide and audio presentation.

Disasters ‘R’ Us David Honour’s new Continuity Central web site has everything: jobs, books, articles, courses and most everything else about BCP. If you can’t find something helpful here, what you want may not exist. David published everybody’s favorite daily BCP email when he was at globalcontinuity.com  

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