Business Continuity and Risk Management

This is the first core textbook specifically designed for senior undergraduate and graduate college courses in business continuity and risk management. Extensively classroom tested, it offers everything instructors need to start a new course or enhance the one they teachtext, test bank, PowerPoint slides, case studies, review toppics, discussion questions, bibliographies, and more. The modular design of the text allows flexibility in structuring a core course with the first ten chapters; focus in greater depth on information systems or emergency management with three additional chapters; or incorporate a comprehensive risk management approach with a Risk Modeling module of four chapters. Two of the six case studies are fictional businesses that continue chapter by chapter to help students gain experience in applying each chapter¿s principles to an organization. The first ten chapters cover the fundamentals of business continuity plan development, implementation, and maintenance, including crisis communication and crisis information management systems. The text is also appropriate for corporate professional development classes.