Book details of 'A Guide to Business Continuity Planning'

Title	A Guide to Business Continuity Planning
Author(s)	James C. Barnes
ISBN	0471530158
Language	English
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Chapter one is an introduction, and also illustrates one of the predominant characteristics of the book: enormous tables with little apparent purpose. Table 1.1 is a list, by country, of regulatory agencies that may have something to require from you in the way of business continuity planning (BCP). The table is stated to be for motivational use, but does point out some BCP ideas or policies. There is also a rather innocent sounding mention that the book is written from the perspective of a consultant: this fact is more significant than the reader may realize. For project foundation, chapter two does not give the usual advice to get management onside and build a broadly based team, but concentrates on costing, expanding, and selling consulting services. (There are confusing areas: having presented one questionnaire, the text tells you to use results from "the two." Some items (such as the advice to use a month's worth of invoices to estimate rate of consumption of supplies) are helpful, but a lot of space seems to be wasted (on things like pages of fake employee and customer data--and a month's worth of supply invoices). The list of threats, consequences, and preventive measures is more than usually detailed (and listed twice), in chapter three, but the discussion of business impact analysis (BIA) itself is *extremely* terse. Chapter four's initial material on strategy selection is quite confused. The example RFP (Request For Proposal) for business continuity services does have some good points, but the pages of lists of specific PCs to be provided seem pointless. Later details are brief, but reasonable. Plan development, in chapter five, assumes multiple teams and, again, has some good points (the provision for leadership succession), but the lists become too specific in many places (does the top level emergency management team really all need to do CPR?) There is almost no general discussion of testing and maintenance in chapter six. The book does not necessarily provide erroneous or misleading information, but only has enough real material for a good magazine article. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2002
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The interest in Business Continuity has gained significant momentum in the last few years, especially with the Y2K non-event, the increasing corporate dependence on computer systems and the growing levels of devastation associated with recent disasters. This book takes an organization interested in continuity planning through the processes needed to develop an effective plan. "Jim Barnes has succeeded in providing us a much-needed tool, with which we can confidently face many of the day-to-day challenges of business contingency planning ... With this book, he has taken an important step in removing much of the guesswork and frustration from the business continuity implementation project." From the Foreword by Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, President of Rothstein Associates Inc., Publisher of The Rothstein Catalog on Disaster Recovery, 2001