1. Continuity Planning Keeps Your Business Running by James R. Evans
   
   Continuity planning is extremely important for every business. It is the plan for how your company will continue to operate if faced with a disaster that results in disruption for an extended period of time. Even smaller business can benefit from discussing continuity plans.
   
   
2. Keeping All Stakeholders in Sync During a Crisis by Malcolm Hafner
   
   There are plenty of opportunities for crisis to occur in the world today. Possibilities range from your local community to global events that affect everyone. Everyone has heard of shooting in your home town that instilled shock and horror on the community. Unfortunately, no one is shielded from the news of masses of people being terminated in bombings or terrorist attacks either.
   
   
3. Crisis Preparedness - The Key to Managing the Real Crisis by Malcolm Hafner
   
   A crisis is a turning point which determines all future events. It is considered dangerous or instable. When the future existence or condition of a person, business or other entity is at stake it is very easy to focus on the impending effects rather than dealing with the actual crisis. Most people enter a state of hysteria and are unable to perform any activities that would improve the current situation.
   
   
4. Preventing Business Fires by Carrie Lower
   
   Do you have a disaster plan in place for your business? What will your company do if you experience a natural disaster, or something more local, such as a computer crash?
   
   
5. Data Recovery and Your Business Disaster Planning by Mike Raylor
   
   Data Recovery from drives that will not power up can only be performed by trained recovery engineers. These engineers will move your damaged drive(s) into a "clean room", where their equipment can copy a duplicate drive for inspection. This is done to determine where the data is actually corrupt and where it is not. This is almost always a procedure that takes hours or days of continuous work. Recovery technicians are also skilled at rebuilding rare or obsolete equipment.
   
   
6. How Archive Storage Works by Gino Hitshopi
   
   Archive storage continues to be a big business in the UK and indeed around the world. It is the process of safely storing documents or file of some value, so that they can be retrieved is necessary.
   
   
7. An Introduction to Disaster Recovery - First Steps in the Implementation of a Disaster Recovery Plan by Roland Poitevin
   
   Disaster recovery (IT) is defined as the set of processes, policies and procedures that go into the "recovering and continuation of technology-related infrastructure that is critical to the basic functioning of an organization in the event of disasters that are natural or deliberate". What does it mean in your Business?
   
   
8. How to Prepare a Disaster Recovery Plan - Ensure Business Continuity With the Right System in Place by Roland Poitevin
   
   A disaster recovery plan clearly maps out the process of continuing normal business operations and salvaging vital data/ equipment; it acts as a guide on "what to do during and after a disaster" to the various teams in the organization. The DRP should ideally be created by a special team dedicated for the purpose - Disaster Recovery Committee. It has members representing all the critical departments like management, IT, risk management, data management, security etc. The committee has to prepare a schedule and deadline for the preparation of the plan.
   
   
9. How to Prevent Disasters in an IT Scenario, Techniques For Risk Reduction That You Can Implement Now by Roland Poitevin
   
   Let's face it Data recovery can be a nightmare. And it's not only hard on your stress levels it's also rough on your balance sheet. With a few simple controls in place you can minimize the risks, minimize the damage when the inevitable occurs and reduce those sleepless nights!
   
   
10. The Role of Good Communication in Disaster Recovery by Roland Poitevin
    
    Communication plays a very crucial role in disaster recovery. Prompt and effective communication can bring down the damage caused and help the business to recover and be back on the feet in record time. Losses can be minimized with the right communication links and its importance cannot be stressed enough.
    
    
11. Disaster Recovery For IT - The Importance of Strategic Planning For Data Recovery by Roland Poitevin
    
    Most Businesses these days have become 100% IT dependent. But are they taking the right steps to insure against the possibility of losing all their data? The consequences need to be considered carefully if you're going to give the right importance to your Data Recovery Plan.
    
    
12. Business Disaster Planning by Barbara C. Phillips
    
    One can hardly turn on the news today with hearing something about some natural disaster. In recent weeks it's been about earthquakes, tornadoes, floods and wild fire. And of course, the Northern Hemisphere Hurricane Season is upon us.
    
    
13. 10 Best Reasons For Document Scanning by Cindy Laczkowski
    
    More and more businesses are moving to electronic records. Learn the ten biggest reasons why document scanning can help save time, save money and increase security.
    
    
14. Corporate Image Value During Crisis by Ethan Hill
    
    On the subject of crisis management, the first thing to do is to have a real awareness of the value of corporate image of the company. Undoubtedly, a good reputation is the most valuable asset that any company can have and more than its buildings, its material ownership, and rather than the work teams, corporate image is what has more value in any company.
    
    
15. Crisis Management - A Strategic Approach is Better Than Emotional by Ethan Hill
    
    When a company is a victim of a smear campaign in the media, the reaction of some officials is too emotional and sometimes filled with anger, which leads to mistakes and officials may say things that may hurt rather than helping and aggravating the already difficult situation. This is when we read in newspapers that a company is suddenly sued by journalists or media managers. Handling of this crisis is useless because it wastes valuable resources in activities that do nothing to help protect the corporate image which has been damaged.
    
    
16. Essentials For Telecom Business Continuity by MK Brown
    
    Telecommunication interruption or failure will be disastrous and cause irredeemable loss to the business. Here are a few points to meet such failures.
    
    
17. Business Insolvency Procedures by Ian R Williamson
    
    There are four main procedures that are used in the United Kingdom in regards to business insolvency. Administration, Liquidation, Company Voluntary Arrangement and to a lesser extent, Receivership can be used to settle insolvency cases. All require the involvement of a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner.
    
    
18. Backup and Recovery Solutions For Data Disasters by Amy A Nutt
    
    Has this scenario ever happened in your office? You arrive at work, ready to face the day. You turn on your computer and wait for the welcome screen. Nothing happens. You turn it off and on again, thinking it may be a simple glitch.
    
    
19. Members' Voluntary Liquidation by Tom V Powell
    
    Liquidation is the process a company needs to take when they can no longer afford to run as a business, but have enough to cover the bills and outgoings needed once they have closed down and sold all assets.  To begin the process, a resolution is passed and it will mean that everything can begin to be liquidated. By this point the company should not be trading or carrying out any transactions anymore, and all assets should be listed.
    
    
20. What is Needed For Company Administration? by Tom V Powell
    
    In order for a company to go through company administration the company must be: of a reasonable size and have a reasonably predictable cash flow, however, this does depend on the kind of business in question. The company must also be able to predict their own profitability through both a quarterly and yearly figure set and the directors must also think that a hostile creditor will seriously affect the future trading possibilities; this is usually the landlord or the crown creditors.
    
    
21. Compulsory Liquidation by Tom V Powell
    
    This is an unfortunate turn of events, but one that is necessary as the company is no longer able to operate due to having larger outgoings than incomings, and being unable to actually physically sustain themselves any longer. They will need to stop operating and doing business as soon as they realise they can no longer fund themselves and call a meeting of everyone involved. Compulsory liquidation occurs when the company cannot actually pay off the money owed to its debtors.
    
    
22. Why Convert Back to Microfilm? by Rick Romens
    
    In the age where everything is becoming digital, it is interesting to note that there are still many organizations that are asking to convert documents that are currently in digital format into microfilm. This article reviews the reasons for converting digital to non-digital.
    
    
23. Continuity Disaster Recovery - Uncovered! by Debra Trotter
    
    Crisis can occur in any situation, but facing it bravely and finding a great solution for it is a best strategy for living life. Same is the case with business - to find an immediate solution of disaster i.e. virus etc and to do your business successfully.
    
    
24. Creating a Crisis Deliberately by Jonathan Bernstein
    
    Typically, most of us in crisis management are trying to keep our clients out of the media, trying to minimize how many stakeholders are concerned and affected. But some of the same tactics we use on the "defense" side of such matters can also, very effectively, be used to deliberately expand the scope of a crisis, to encourage others who might otherwise not be involved to GET involved and concerned.
    
    
25. Getting Disaster Recovery Services Ensure Business Continuity Amidst a Disaster by Cheryl Forbes
    
    Disaster is what we should all prepare for. Even if the worst scenario is not going to happen, it does not mean that we should not prepare for it. The truth is it is always better to be always prepared than not to be prepared at all especially when a disaster strikes.
    
    
26. Never Too Small a Business to Be Stalled by a Pandemic by Carla Dummerauf
    
    It is far more cost effective to be prepared before hand than during any pandemic. Here are a few contacts and considerations that will help you be prepared for the inevitable.
    
    
27. Survival of Businesses During the Recession by Connor R Sullivan
    
    There are many businesses which fail to survive during recession. This article talks about some of the things that business owners need to consider so that they can run a business successfully during hard times.
    
    
28. As Christians, There Is No Bad Job, What We Need Is A Change Of Attitude by Vitus Ejiogu
    
    The need for employment as long as man lives cannot be over-emphasized. It is the will of that each of us should be gainfully employed to provide for his basic necessities of life and that of his family.
    
    
29. Does Your Organization Have a Disaster Recovery Plan? by Mort Greenwood
    
    Disaster recovery plans are expensive to writer, impossible to maintain, and a downright hassle. But they are vital to any organization's long term stability.
    
    
30. Crisis Management Skills That Ensure You Overcome Business Challenges by Belsheba Nyabwa
    
    Business owners should realize that problems could be worse than they may appear on face value. You may discover that there are more people involved than you had anticipated. The best approach is to have a mindset that ...
    
    

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