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How Tech Can Help Manage the COVID-19 Threat: . . . A Complimentary Tool
Make sure your business is successful at managing your COVID-19 crisis and business continuity response strategy, with a total mobile crisis management system that can be set up in less than 24 hours and no training overhead.
Register for a webinar detailing how this technology can help business organizations and healthcare agencies respond to the COVID-19. You’ll also get a first-hand look at how companies around the world are using this free technology to respond to COVID-19.
Meet the Expert
"Where are we in the pandemic . . .and where are we going?"
Regina Phelps, a frequent author for the eGUIDE, hears this question often. It is an important question and one that deserves a careful and thoughtful answer. Previous approaches do not help a crisis management team organize their work or manage the incident.
Regina’s article examines the crisis through a new and expanded lens of a protracted and sustained incident. The approach is called:
Seven Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Top Considerations When Choosing BCM Software
A few years ago, we published a 15-page spotlight and believe it still has a LOT of value today for those of you who have an increased NEED to get business continuity software in place to deal with the current crisis and be better prepared for future events. Certainly much has changed in the past four years. Contact the companies to find out the specifics. But, time is of the essence. We trust this will be of help to you in your decision-making process. The options and features of BCM software are both tempting and overwhelming, but you don’t necessarily need it all. And the right software for your organization can add tremendous value to your company’s BC program. But how do you choose? This article, accompanied by an extensive matrix (pages 30-38), will offer the following: • Helpful insights whether you have or do not have BCM software • What BCM software will not do • When is BCM software appropriate • Suggestions for the evaluation process • Important features and benefits for consideration.
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Don’t Miss out on 30+ sessions on demand from DRJ Spring 2020: A Clear Vision of Risk and Resiliency. The conference might have been canceled due to COVID-19, but now you can get instant access to all of this content:
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Pandemic Preparedness for Organizations
Duration: 1 day of instruction (8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) with 8 CEAPs and Certificate of Completion provided.
Description:
Pandemic Preparedness for Organizations provides an in-depth review and analysis of a specialized methodology that serves the need to prepare businesses for the potential outbreak of a pandemic. Topics cover a full range from starting to think through the differences in a pandemic-specific plan to exercising and maintaining such a plan.
Objective:
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Become familiar with definitions surrounding, and potential consequences of a pandemic
- Outline the starting point(s) for your organization
- Assess organizational risks associated with pandemics
- Properly identify critical organizational functions that may be affected
- Verify related current procedures and responsibilities within your organization
- Build plan elements and strategies that are pandemic-specific
- Exercise and maintain pandemic-specific plans
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