TY - GEN
T1 - Business continuity for small business owners
T2 - 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2011
AU - Bell, Robert
AU - Gomez, Elizabeth Avery
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Business continuity planning for private sector organizations has not reached the level of readiness as has the public sector. This disparity has reached national attention as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security addressed it in a statement, "ensuring Americas small businesses have the critical information and training they need to better respond to disasters will strengthen the entire nations preparedness and resilience (DHS, 2010)." The release of this statement and the DHS program (PS-Prep) was a promise to provide the necessary tools to small business owners so they could build effective business continuity plans. The major contributions of this research will be to provide an evaluation of the applicability of PS-Prep to small businesses, and to provide the needs assessment for parallel research of leveraging the current capabilities of a Business Emergency Operations Center in the development of a Virtual Small Business Emergency Operations Center (VSBEOC).
AB - Business continuity planning for private sector organizations has not reached the level of readiness as has the public sector. This disparity has reached national attention as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security addressed it in a statement, "ensuring Americas small businesses have the critical information and training they need to better respond to disasters will strengthen the entire nations preparedness and resilience (DHS, 2010)." The release of this statement and the DHS program (PS-Prep) was a promise to provide the necessary tools to small business owners so they could build effective business continuity plans. The major contributions of this research will be to provide an evaluation of the applicability of PS-Prep to small businesses, and to provide the needs assessment for parallel research of leveraging the current capabilities of a Business Emergency Operations Center in the development of a Virtual Small Business Emergency Operations Center (VSBEOC).
KW - Business continuity
KW - Business continuity plan
KW - Emergency operations center (EOC)
KW - Incident command system (ICS)
KW - Small business
KW - Virtual business emergency operations center (VBEOC)
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905639682
SN - 9789724922478
T3 - 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011
BT - 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Y2 - 8 May 2011 through 11 May 2011
ER -