Business Continuity Planning 101 Webinar

This webinar will focus on the ability of a firm to quickly adapt to situations after a disruption while simultaneously maintaining other important aspects of their business, particularly the safety of their employees. The topics to be covered include:

• Developing a continuity strategy for the short and long term
• Identifying risks and developing a business impact analysis for resiliency enhancement
• Auditing, maintaining, and exercising the business continuity and resiliency plans.
• Testing your business continuity and crisis management plans

Presenter: Arash Azadegan, PhD, Associate Professor at Rutgers Business School and the Director of Supply Chain Disruption Research Laboratory

Dr Azadegan's research focuses on supply chain disruptions, and the effect of inter-organizational response and recovery effort to mitigate them. Specific to disasters and humanitarian supply chains, Dr. Azadegan has several ongoing projects on response and recovery from disasters in the United States (e.g., hurricanes) and how collaboration among NGOs and governmental entities can be strengthened.