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Business Continuity

Thursday 3 July 2008

Mews of Mayfair
In association with

 

Business continuity has been around as a concept for many years, but there's an inconvenient truth that many suppliers would rather not discuss: that many of the infrastructure-only approaches to business continuity are woefully inadequate for the modern enterprise.

Business continuity and resilience is fundamental to business success. And in today's interconnected world, there are more points of vulnerability than ever before. Plus, with the threats to businesses growing and becoming ever more sophisticated and complex, looking at business continuity in an infrastructure-centric way is no longer enough.

 

Companies must now grapple with the resilience and business continuity of not just infrastructure like servers and desktops, but also of human interaction, critical business processes and even services shared with partners and suppliers.

 

Attend this CBR Dining Club event to discover how to determine the continuity and recovery requirements of your business. Learn how to identify and integrate critical business and IT priorities into a comprehensive business continuity programme, that includes not just infrastructure, but people, and internal and cross-firewall processes too.

 

Attend this CBR Dining Club event to discover:

  • the inconvenient truth about traditional business continuity approaches
  • why infrastructure-centric business continuity could fail your business when it's most needed
  • how a new approach to business continuity can include people, process and other critical elements
  • how to identify the best approach to your own enterprise's business continuity challenges, and the first steps to take in implementing those plans
  • how a new approach to business continuity can include people, processes and other critical elements - including your supply chain

 

Programme for meeting:

18.45 Attendees arrive. Welcome drink
19.15 Introduction – Dinner is served
Jason Stamper, Editor, Computer Business Review
19.20

Analyst Viewpoint
Alan Rodger, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group

20.10

IBM Viewpoint
David Spencer, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services Consulting team, IBM

20.30

Q&A session moderated by Jason Stamper – After dinner Coffees

 

Each meeting is free to attend, and is reserved for qualifying delegates: senior executives at larger (£100m+ turnover) public and private organisations, excluding technology vendors and consultants. CBR reserve the right to select attendees for each meeting.