I am curious to see what other CUs are doing in regards to their disaster recovery. This is my first time putting one together for my CU and any ideas on things I may overlook would be wonderful.
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Curious on what other CU’s are doing for their disaster recovery
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Employee Communication of D.R. Plan
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009If anyone has some good suggestions for rolling out their Disaster Recovery Plan to employees, I’d like to hear from you. We are an insurance agency.
Starting a Business Continuity Plan
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008I’ve run into many people who have difficulty getting their planning process off the ground, for a variety of reasons. I’m wondering what tips or advice you may be able to provide to help those who are new to business continuity planning to get started and stay organized - in any area from gaining support of management to putting a team together. What advice would you give someone that you wish you would have known before you started your BC plan?
Formulating a plan
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Hello,
We are an insurance agency in Wellesley, MA and are looking for other Agility members in our area to share/compare our disaster recovery planning.
Jeff
Strange Disasters?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008It seems like I only hear about large regional disasters: Tornados, Hurricanes, etc. But I know that most “disasters” never make the national news. Does anyone have any unique “disaster stories” that, albeit may not be CNN worthy, but are interesting just the same.
For example, I heard about a company that lost power for a week because an unfortunate squirrel built its nest near a transformer.
I’m putting together a presentation for a trade organization and “everyday” disasters are always an interesting topic. Thanks.
Phone Interuption
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008We received a call from a ReadySuite member earlier this week. He had just joined the member company the previous week and was in charge of recovery planning. He had no idea what Agility does for his business, as the people with this information had left the company weeks ago.
He seemed a little frantic, spoke very fast and was trying to understand what Agility does and what his ReadySuite membership entails. I gave him a brief overview and took him online to MyAgility.
Before he quickly got off the phone, I asked him to call back when he had a few minutes, so I could formally introduce him to the benefits of membership.
Well, he called me back a day later. He told me the company’s phone system was down for seven hours yesterday and his strategy to roll over his phones failed. They lost almost a full day of communication.
I told him how Agility could have helped with the phones (I am kicking myself for not originally asking if there was an emergency, didn’t cross my mind) and he was so ecstatic!
He said “we need to input our employees and vendors (in MyAgility) right away. The alert notification would have been perfect and we sure could have utilized the call redirection to receive our calls. Who knows how many callers received a busy signal yesterday?”
This member is set up on the next MyAgility Webinar and a custom consultation call next week. He will be much more prepared the next time there is a failure and will turn to Agility for immediate assistance.
Annual plan reviews are so important – turnover is inevitable and on-going communication with Agility is crucial to response and recovery times. What are some of the things you’re doing to address phones recovery needs?
New to Agility. Where to start?
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008I just became an Agility member and I’m new to this forum and business continuity planning. What’s the first thing I should do to formulate my plan? We’re a small company and I’m leading our planning effort. Thanks!
Is there a right time to declare a disaster or put Agility on alert?
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008When’s the right time to initiate a response from Agility? I understand I should put them on “alert” when we begin thinking about a recovery, but are there any concrete factors that determine when to actually declare a disaster?I’m scared that we’ll be waiting around weighing all the pros and cons and, eventually, it’ll be too late. Then again, if it’s only for a generator or server, the benefit may outweigh the cost of a recovery.