Business continuity for small business owners: Do the tools fit their need?

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Abstract

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).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011
StatePublished - 2011
Event8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2011 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 8 May 201111 May 2011

Publication series

Name8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2011
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period8/05/1111/05/11

Keywords

  • Business continuity
  • Business continuity plan
  • Emergency operations center (EOC)
  • Incident command system (ICS)
  • Small business
  • Virtual business emergency operations center (VBEOC)

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