Business Continuity International
Command
Centre Assessment
Information
Management is Critical
The
Command Center is ultimately a center for information management and decision
making. Its primary purpose is to gather and process all of the information
required to plan for and respond quickly and effectively to any potential
emergency. Inside the Command Center, incoming messages of all nature must be
gathered, categorized, processed logged and displayed in order to optimize
decision-making. As messages arrive, the information flows to analysts both
information technology specialists and business managers who make the
initial assessment as to whether the information that has arrived is indeed an
emergency incident. If and when they determine that
a disruption must be treated as an emergency incident, then the incident must be
posted to an Operations Log. With the incident established in the Operations
Log, your incident response gets underway with triage that determines the
priority and type of response. You must select the response and recovery plan
most appropriate to that incident. In the event that no plan for that incident
or location has been prepared, a plan with similar types of response activities
can be activated and modified. This plan should provide the guidance you will
need to apply appropriate response personnel and resources.
Business Continuity
International
Will carry out an assessment
of your command centre to ascertain whether or not the processes and procedures
that are in place are viable.
Should you have no
Command Centre, Business Continuity International will help you design, build
and test your EOC.
The EOC assessment will
include:
Location
Build type
Infrastructure in
place
Staffing
call trees
Communication
and Intelligence
Command
and Control
Coordination
We
can also help you in selecting the right information gathering tools / software
Two-way
communications
Automated
response and recovery checklists
Response
and Recovery Checklists
Triage
Business
Continuity Plan tracking and
monitoring
Resource
tracking
Public
Information and Executive Briefings
Redundant
communications systems
Management
of diverse data elements
Conclusion:
This
is can be quite daunting, but with the right management approach and
tools, your Command Center be set up successfully, saving your
organization time, money and frustration every step of the way.
If
a disaster occurs, your organization will have protection for employees,
shareholders assuring the continuity of your enterprise.
Being
well prepared for disasters should make your organization resilient and provide
continuity of your operations. Whether caused by an employee disgruntlement, a
fire, denial of access, terrorist attack, the event information management
principles and procedures described above are absolutely essential to the well
being of your organization.
For
budgetary pricing please contact: 
Assessment of
existing plan status : 
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