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Reversing
TRIZ for Business Continuity Planning
TRIZ principles continue to find applications in fields outside their
original application in engineering and
technical problem solving. Applications in management and organizational
problem solving, ergonomics
and human factors, and consumer product design have been demonstrated
in the past few years. This
article will focus on a review of TRIZ and its normal algorithms and
tools, as well as its "reverse" version,
in an important new area – business continuity planning (BCP).
Business
Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Checklist for Small Business
Is your business ready for a disaster? Use this checklist to build or
to review a disaster readiness plan for your small business.
Pandemic
Flu Threat and Business Continuity
Today's challenge for survival in an ever increasing hostile world calls
for a transformational shift to a "culture of readiness."
Make
The Right Choice
As Data Protection and Recovery grows in business importance, companies
are turning to trusted outsourcers like Iron Mountain to ensure their
data is protected and available.
Predictive Failure Analysis
Why would you want to predict failure? We normally try to prevent it,
don’t we? We use an endless stream of checklists to compare our
business against a collection of known standards and try to make everything
fit into neatly categorized groupings. The inherent flaw in this logic
is that the process is only as good as the checklist.
Challenging
Your Business Continuity Plan
You’ve just focused your attention on the why and how of putting
together your disaster preparedness plans so that you can be ready for
a potential weather, terrorist, or some other business-threatening situation.
Now… How can you make sure that everything has been considered?
Pet
Preparedness Brochure from Department of Homeland Security
Family
Communications Plan from Department of Homeland Security
Personal
Preparedness Tri-Fold Brochure from Department of Homeland Security
Business
Survival “Grab and Go Box” Checklist
The “Grab and Go Box” should contain copies of important
information, documents, and supplies essential for your business to
continue operating after a disaster. This information should be stored
in a waterproof secure container available to grab and go in case of
an emergency. Ideally a second copy of this information should be stored
at an alternate location. Review the contents of the “Grab and
Go Box” quarterly and update as needed.
Self-Assessment
Quiz
Is your business ready for a disaster? Ten questions to help
you determine the answer.
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Press
Releases
Elliot
Consulting Services Featured in Tampa Bay Business Journal's 2008 Hurricane
Guide
April 11, 2008 - Steve Elliot, President and C.E.O. of Elliot Consulting
Services, Inc. (ECS), talked about developing an action plan for the
hurricane season in Tampa Bay Business Journal's 2008 Hurricane Guide.
Elliot Consulting Services
Featured in ABA Banking Journal March 2008 Issue
April 7, 2008 - Steve Elliot, President and C.E.O. of Elliot Consulting
Services, Inc. (ECS), was recently featured in the ABA Banking Journal
March 2008 Issue as a resource on how the financial services industry
should address business continuity standards.
Elliot Consulting Lays Out
Plan for Unforeseen Disasters
May 23, 2007 - Elliot
Consulting Services President Steve Elliot said a $10 million
per year business loses $40,000 a day when its operations are interrupted
- regardless of the type of disaster. By the time you read this, Florida’s
2007 hurricane season will have begun, and it won’t officially
end until Nov. 30. That gets the attention of Florida business people
these days - now that we’ve gone through a few particularly active
storm seasons.
Jack
Hipple Talks About Planning for Business Survivability
December 11, 2006 – Jack Hipple of Elliot Consulting
delivered a business continuity planning presentation to the Tampa chapter
of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Entitled "How to Keep
the Grinch from Stealing Your Business," Hipple discussed concerns
about natural and man-made disasters, as well as potential pandemic
threats such as the Asian flu, and how organizations should develop
plans for their businesses operations to survive for extended periods
of time.
ECS
Awards Mintek Mobile Data Solutions with Certificate of Business Resilience
November 30, 2006 – Mintek Mobile Data Solutions
announced that the company has completed an extensive review of all
business procedures and resources and developed a comprehensive business
continuity plan (BCP). For its efforts, Mintek has been awarded a certificate
of business resiliency by Tampa, Fla.-based Elliot Consulting Services.
Elliot
Consulting Services (ECS) Awards Certificate of Business Resilience
to M.E. Wilson Company
November 1, 2006 – M.E. Wilson Company has been awarded
a certificate of business resilience by Elliot Consulting Services for
the successful development of a business continuity plan which was produced
in accordance with industry-standard best practices established by DRI
International, Business Continuity Institute, NAFP 1600, and other firms
specializing in business continuity, emergency preparedness, and business
resiliency standards.
Another
Katrina Can Happen in Tampa Bay
June 2, 2006:
Imagine living in a city where one-third of your work force disappears
overnight. Or a place where a quarter of your hotel rooms and two-thirds
of your restaurants vanish. Sandra Gunner, president of the New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce, has lived that economic nightmare since Hurricane
Katrina. So her warning to St. Petersburg businesspeople was blunt:
Stop living in denial about the possibility of a catastrophic storm
hitting the Tampa Bay area.
Business
Contingency Planning (BCP) Expert William Hastings Joins Elliot Consulting
Services
March 27, 2006: A
long-standing industry veteran with over thirty years of contingency
planning and disaster recovery experience for the United States Navy
and Raytheon Company, William “Bill” Hastings brings to
ECS a wealth of knowledge.
Elliot
Consulting Adds TRIZ Predictive Failure Analyses to Its Services
March 17, 2006: ECS
forms a strategic partnership with Jack Hipple, President of Innovation-TRIZ
to offer predictive failure analyses to its business continuity planning
services.
Elliot
Consulting Services to be Featured Speaker at Business Continuity Planning
and Resources Event
March 15, 2006: ECS participates in the Business Continuity
Planning & Resources Event to be held at the Host.net new colocation
facility in Boca Raton, Fla.
State
of Florida acknowledges Elliot Consulting Services partner Jerry B.
Bock as world-renowned expert on business continuity planning
ECS Consultant Jerry B. Bock features the State of Florida Business
Disaster Survival Kit
Business
contingency planning expert Jerry B. Bock joins Elliot Consulting Services
November 7, 2005: Leading industry figure formerly
held senior BCP post at Raymond James Financial
Oldsmar
Community News
October, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Update by Jerry
Custin
Elliot
Consulting Services to be featured speaker at Hurricane Preparedness
Luncheon
May 1, 2005: Event includes talk by Channel 10 Meteorologist
Dick Fletcher
Elliot
Consulting Services offers hurricane preparedess seminars for area businesses
December 15, 2004: ECS Presient Steve Elliot announces
a series of upcoming seminars relating to preparedness and business
continuity
Elliot
Consulting launches "Business Survival Solutions Services"
October 30 , 2003: ECS President Steve Elliot introduces
comprehensive business continuity planning strategies based on AT&T
experience
Elliot
Consulting Services opens doors to Central Florida businesses
January 6, 2003: AT&T veteran Steve Elliot founds new business
solutions consulting firm serving Central and South Florida
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