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Workshop on
business continuity
by a staff reporter
Of the 350 companies put out on to the street following the
World Trade Centre bomb, 170 subsequently went out of business.This
is a quite normal percentage for businesses which are involved
in a disaster and which do not have a continuity plan and such
disasters include fire, floods and failure of a supplier, such
as the electricity provider, among others.
Many companies are well aware of the problem but do not know
how to develop the in-house expertise to develop such a plan
or what external consultancy services are available to help
them both to produce a plan while, at the same time, transferring
the expertise to their own staff.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is about minimising the risk
of suffering from either a natural, accidental or man-made malicious
disaster or even, a disaster caused by management incompetence.
BCP is also about surviving, and then recovering from, such
a disaster if one occurs.
The Malta Institute of Management, in association with KPMG
Malta, are organising a half-day workshop on Business Continuity
and Contingency Planning on 23 April 2001. Professionals who
seek practical guide lines in preparing business recovery and
disaster recovery plans, should make it a point to attend. The
workshop facilitator is Ronald Ginn from the Chartwell Group.
Ronald Ginn is a practising consultant in Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery planning. He has held a number of interim
management assignments including that of Chairman and managing
director of Continuity Planning Associates International Inc.,
an international group of companies engaged in consulting in
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.
He is currently Chairman for mainland Europe of Survive.
For more information contact Anne De Micoli, Richard Scerri
or Paul Tihn at the Institute on tel: 322950-1-2, fax no: 322953,
email: mim@mim-malta.org.
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