Business Continuity Planning Training
Top Four Recommended Resources

Business continuity planning training is extremely important to you as a senior executive of your organization. Our goal here is to provide the resources you need to deal effectively with this key IT function.

All the business continuity resources we present here are at the industry association or industry standard level. These impartial, third-party resources include:

1. The Business Continuity Institute
2. Business Continuity Planners Association
3. Institute for Business Continuity Training
4. The Ultimate Resource?

Whatever your IT situation, doing the proper business continuity planning is a must. Unfortunately training is an often-neglected part of a project. Don't let that happen to your company!

1. The Business Continuity Institute

The Business Continuity Institute was started in 1994 to enable individuals such as yourself to obtain guidance and support from fellow practitioners involved in business continuity. Their primary goals are:

• Set and maintain high standards and best practices.
• Establish and promote quality education in business continuity.
• Define professional competencies thru certification.
• Help influence executives such as yourself on the issues of business continuity management.

With the help of 4000 members in 85 countries worldwide they have developed a Best Practices Guidelines covering these areas:

1. Introduction to Business Continuity Management Policy and program management - 38 pages.
2. Understanding the BCI organization - 14 pages.
3. Determining the business continuity strategy - 19 pages.
4. Developing and implementing business continuity - 18 pages.
5. Exercising, maintaining business continuity - 16 pages.
6. Implementing business continuity into your organizations culture - 17 pages.

You can download these business continuity planning training guidelines for free.

2. Business Continuity Planners Association

The Business Continuity Planners Association is a non-profit organization established for business professionals involved in:

• Business recovery operations.
• Crisis management.
• Emergency management.
• Contingency planning.
• Disaster recovery planning and execution.

3. Institute for Business Continuity Training

The Institute for Business Continuity Training can provide your organization with all the business continuity planning training support you would need to implement business continuity processes thru the use of:

• Regularly scheduled courses by certified instructors.
• Special in-house training if you prefer, including tutorials, workshops and train-the-trainer sessions.
• On-line training.
• Gap analysis and auditing.
• Consulting services because setting up, implementing and gaining user buy-in is not an easy task for an organization that is new to this process.
• Their staff are trained to teach you best practices in business continuity.

Make sure you look at their client list. It contains large corporations in major sectors: Financial institutions, Healthcare institutions, Manufacturing industry, Energy industry and Government agencies.

4. The Ultimate Resource?

The ultimate resource, whether for business continuity planning training or for anything at all, is an expert professional in the field, or better still, a team of experts.

The organization of business professionals behind this website has a complete skill-set in IT project outsourcing services. It's our goal to make needed IT resources available through this website.

It could be as straightforward as directing you to a resource like the planning guide on our business continuity plan template page. This is typical of the way many of the resources on the site are offered.

We're also offering two important and useful industry standard books, free of charge. The content is based on years of experience in working with companies just like yours.

Getting More Help

Our offer of professional help is a serious one. First of all, you'll find that while the site information is exhaustive, it appears in a brief, easy-to-read, often bulleted, executive style.

You won't get bogged down in details while browsing this site, but we DO have extensive in-depth information for you if you want or need it. It's free and all you have to do is ask!

Start right now by going to the Contact Us page and completing the simple online form. You'll receive immediate access to the two books, which our site sponsor will mail to you at no cost.

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