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Mintek Completes
Business Continuity Plan
Tampa, Fla.
– 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.
The BCP will prepare
Mintek to address, act and provide key business services to its customers
if a major unplanned business interruption should take place. Hurricane
Katrina, which devastated the Gulf region last year, has prompted many
companies to establish BCPs.
“We wanted
to ensure the resiliency of this company and to aid the organization
in managing any serious disruptive crisis in a controlled and structured
manner,” says Jim Hutton, Mintek’s president. “I am
confident that we are now better prepared to meet the needs of our clients
regardless of circumstances.”
The plan establishes
a structured approach for anticipating, mitigating, managing, and recovering
from events that threaten the continued viability of the company or
its critical business processes.
“We are capitalizing
on today’s technology to help us prepare to continue operations
under the worst of conditions,” Hutton says. “For example,
one significant part of the plan included installing redundant servers.
One is running at our corporate office and another simultaneously offsite
in a ‘bunker’ style environment.”
Plan Encompasses
All Types of Crises
“Regardless
of the incident or the severity of the disaster, Mintek now has a plan
and the tools in place to establish emergency communications with employees,
customers and vendors,” says Steve Elliot, president and C.E.O.
of Elliot Consulting Services, whose company worked with Mintek on the
BCP.
The plan has been
constructed so that designated personnel can immediately and consistently
execute their responsibilities in the event an incident threatens the
health and safety of Mintek employees, contractors, clients, visitors,
or neighboring communities; or that threatens the company’s operations,
property, assets, brand(s), reputation, or financial results.
“It is an
important strategic decision on the part of the company to plan for
risks and hazards,” Elliot says. “We try to work with companies
on the before, during and after part of every incident. Mintek has been
through all three phases with us. The plan helps to create an overall
culture of preparedness and will allow the company to receive a discount
on insurance premiums.”
The BCP was developed
in accordance with industry-standard best practices established by DRI
International, Business Continuity Institute, NAFP 1600, the Association
of Contingency Planners, and other firms specializing in business continuity,
emergency preparedness and business resiliency standards.
About
Elliot Consulting Services
Elliot
Consulting Services (ECS) is a 4 year old consulting firm based in the
Tampa Bay, Florida area which specializes in business survival solutions.
ECS functions as a third party advocate to help companies create, develop,
and implement business continuity plans which are designed to protect
their vital business resources and operational processes. ECS will review,
audit, and help modify a company’s existing disaster recovery
model to ensure that the essential components of the organization will
continue to function in the event of an unplanned disruptive incident.
The team from Elliot Consulting will also assist with disaster recovery
training exercises to test the thoroughness of a company’s preparedness
model. At the conclusion of a consulting engagement ECS will award a
Certificate of Business Resilience. The ECS consultants are certified
business continuity planners and business resiliency specialists with
Fortune 500 experience.
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