Understanding Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis

Objectives

A one-day grounding in the principles and practice of effective risk assessment and business impact analysis.

To provide

  • practical methods and techniques for risk identification and assessment
  • an understanding of how business disruption impacts the business and the costs fo disruption

 

Why you should attend

Risk is all around us. Physical risks, security risks, dependencies on suppliers and technology. Mission-threatening events can happen quickly, with little warning. It has never been more important to understand the risks, and the effect they could have on our organisation if they should occur. This workshop provides skills to assess risk and impact as a basis for cost-justified risk reduction programmes.

Who should attend

  • Information Services and Telecommunication managers, project managers, analysts, strategy planners, consultants
  • Technical Support managers and staff
  • Security managers, planners, advisers and consultants
  • Audit professionals - internal auditors, external auditors
  • Human Resource managers and staff
  • Premises and Facilities Management managers
  • Administration managers and staff
  • Supplier technical, planning and marketing staff



How you and your organisation will benefit

You will:

  • Learn proven techniques to assess and reduce risk and impact
  • Review the role of insurance and appreciate its limitations
  • Gain techniques to make risk analysis and impact assessment easier
  • Examine real-life case studies - and their lessons
  • Cover risk and impact topics for certification by the Business Continuity Institute
  • Understand the requirements of BS 25999 and PAS 77 for Business Continuity and ITDR Risk and Impact Analysis

Programme:

 

Workshop Leader

Andrew Hiles or Ian Carman

 

Books by Kingswell Consultants

Books on Service Management

Hiles, A. N. The Complete Guide to IT Service Level Agreements, Matching Service Quality to Business Needs.. ISBN 0-9641648-2-5 published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The standard work on IT Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. E-Business Service Level Agreements: Strategies for ISPs, ASPs, *SPs and CLECS.  Published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The first book to deal specifically with e-commerce Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. Service Level Agreements, Winning a Competitive Edge for Supply and Support Services.  ISBN 0-9641648-4-1published by Rothstein Associates Inc. This book applies Service Level Agreements to services other than IT. Real case studies and example SLAs are provided ranging from Human Resources, Logistics, through Training, Livestock Handling, Logistics and Field Service Engineering.

Hiles A.N. and Gunn, Dr. Y. Creating a Customer-Focused Help Desk: How to Win and Keep Your Customers. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-6-8 This book has the support of the Help Desk Institute www.helpdeskinst.com

Books on Business Continuity

Hiles A.N. Business Continuity Management: Best Practice. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-3-3.  This book explicitly covers all the ten areas of business continuity competence required for membership of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) and the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

Hiles A.N. Enterprise Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis – Best Practices ISBN 1-931332-12-6 Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. Covers many techniques and methods of risk and impact assessment with detailed examples and checklists.

e-Publication. Kingswell books on Business Continuity, Service Level Agreements and  Help Desk Management will shortly be available by page download in conjunction with Rothstein Associates Inc and Books24x7.com.

New and updated books. Existing  books Business Continuity Management – Best Practice and IT Service Level Agreements have been extensively updated. See our products page or visit www.rothstein.com .

All the above books can be obtained from:

Rothstein Associates Inc.
4 Arapaho Road
Brookfield
Connecticut
0608-3104 USA

www.rothstein.com

e-mail pjr@rothstein.com

Telephone: USA: 1-888-ROTHSTEIN
Worldwide: +1 203 740 7400

Hiles A.N. Guide to Risk Management. Published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Hiles A.N. and Barnes, P. (Editor and main contributor) The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management, John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN 0 471 98622 4.

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Croner’s Purchasing and Supply Guide to I.T., 1994, ISBN 1 85524 271 0

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Guide to Business Continuity Management, 1999, for the Confederation of British Industry by Caspian Publishing

Hiles A.N. (contributor) Business Continuity Management, 2000, Institute of Directors / Department of Trade & Industry.

 

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