Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Businesses: Donna R. Childs
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Now in its second edition, Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best presents you with a structured, time-tested blueprint to help you evaluate your business in terms of its vulnerability and guide you through developing a cost-effective, individualized disaster and recovery plan. This book is an essential handbook for anyone who owns, or plans to start, a small business, to help you move from paralysis to preparedness.
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We know, in our post–September 11/post-Katrina world, that disasters are increasingly catastrophic in impact. While major disasters cannot be prevented, you can equip your small business with the knowledge needed to mitigate your risks and recover quickly when they occur. Now in its second edition, Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Businesses presents you with a structured, time-tested blueprint to help you evaluate your business in terms of its vulnerability and guide you through developing a cost-effective, individualized disaster and recovery plan.
In this new edition, author Donna Childs thoughtfully draws on the lessons she and her company learned while working in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, and working with small businesses worldwide coping with all types of disasters. She offers valuable strategies to prepare for a variety of unpredictable disasters to enable your small business to be prepared with a realistic, functional contingency plan. Carefully outlining procedures to undertake during a catastrophe and how to implement a successful recovery, Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best:
- Provides new guidance on how to rebuild a company’s IT infrastructure
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Contains new material about disaster relief programs and the immediate financial payoff to contingency planning
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Includes new information on Redundant Arrays of Independent Disk (RAID) hardware backups, calling trees and the intranet,?power outages and suppliers, as well as wireless networks
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Adds new sections?on setting up an insurance program to expedite claims payments as well as on assisting employees and their families
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Walks you step by step through what to do during disaster recovery such as contacting third parties and handling insurance claims
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Reveals how a sound contingency plan can successfully combat daily “small” disasters, such as mistakenly deleting computer files, while also improving the overall efficiency of business processes
If you are a small business owner or manager, what you do before a disaster will determine, in large part, if you will be able to remain in business after the disaster. Whether a network break-in or an earthquake occurs, you can take steps to significantly improve the protection of your business in the case of a disaster. Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best, Second Edition shows you how to put in place a disaster preparedness plan that will yield a positive return on your investment even if disaster never strikes.
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