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. His presentation focused on planning for business survivability and not just simple disaster preparedness.
The ASQ is composed quality managers, consultants, and specialists in the quality area from the banking, finance, manufacturing, and construction industries. Hipple’s presentation reviewed two new ways for businesses to look beyond the normal "check-listing" approach to short term disaster preparedness. The first is saboteurial analysis or what Elliot Consulting calls Predictive Failure Analysis. Instead of check-listing, which always leaves out areas of concern until they are accidentally discovered during a crisis, a business asks itself how it may deliberately cause its mission-critical procedures to fail during a time of crisis.
Another suggested approach is for businesses to look at levels of preparedness. Many times, an organization only looks at itself as a stand-alone entity, but it is critical to take into account the customers' and suppliers' business survivability.
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