upcoming seminars

Adapting Business Continuity to Your Organization
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH
Februray 10, 2012
Registration (fee)

BEP Institute's
Contingency Planning for Special Events
Webinar
Association of Donor Relations Professionals
February 23, 2012
Registration (ADRP Members)

Crime Prevention Presentation
Panera Bread in Rocky River
Rocky River Chamber of Commerce
March 13, 2012
Registration (Chamber Members)

Spring World 2012
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
Orlando, FL
March 25-28, 2012
Registration (fee)

Ohio BWC Ohio Safety Congress and Expo
Greater Columbus Convention Center
March 27-29, 2012
Registration (fee)

BEP Institute's
Inside a Disaster
Westlake Service Center
Westshore CERT
April 21, 2012
Registration (CERT Members)

updates

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Latest from the BEP Institute Newsletter

BBB Recommends Setting Up a Disaster Plan for Your Business and Employees
If you don’t take our word for it, listen to the Better Business Bureau. Here is a great overview of many of the things-you-can-do now such as checking your insurance, knowing what you need if your office was displaced for a week and determining who will manage the business if key leaders are unavailable.
Check out the embedded video that is short and to the point.

The Cost of Ignoring “The Highly-Unlikely”
With only so many hours in the day and resources to invest, we dutifully make our graph plotting every conceivable scenario based on the likelihood of facing a particular disruption and ultimately focus our attention on those events we deem “likely” to occur. And then the "highly unlikely” happens, and worse, it causes a major disruption to our business.
Do you recall this "highly unlikely" event?

Supply Chain Strategies Are Void of Emergency Options
The past year wrought numerous disruptions on our global supply chains from floods to earthquakes to severe winter weather yet companies continue to ignore supply chains risks. While multi-national and larger companies are better prepared, it’s the smaller companies that have a lot of ground to cover including finding alternative sources of critical supplies, collaboration with partners to share resources and increasing self-sufficiency.
Want to read more?

Do You Need an Attitude Adjustment?
John Stagl of BELFOR USA makes a (lengthy) case that the ongoing complaint from business continuity planners that senior management does not support or provide adequate resources for business continuity planning may actually be caused by the business continuity planner. Stagl argues that C-Level executives are actually continually focused on business continuity.
See how he addresses the problem.

A Perfect Storm Combines to Clean Gulf
In the BEP Institute's seminar “Inside a Disaster” we discuss how a disaster is “built.” Rather than a single incident a large disaster is actually a system - a series of incidents put in place over time. Well, it is nice to know systems work the other (postive) way as well. As luck would have it a population of bacteria that feed on the spill’s hydrocarbons encountered the spill and the unique geography of the gulf caused the ocean currents to keep the supply of hydrocarbons in contact with the bacteria which have helped to purge the oil and gas from the Deepwater Horizon Gulf spill from the Gulf of Mexico.
Read the scientific explanation.