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Business continuity focuses on ensuring an organization can continue to provide services when faced with various crisis events. Part of the business continuity planning process involves: Business Impact Analysis; Risk Assessment; and Strategy Development. In practice, these activities often rely on ad hoc methods for collecting and analyzing data necessary for developing the business continuity plan. In this paper we discuss how various analytical methods that have been successfully used for addressing other problems, may be applied to the three phases of business continuity planning mentioned above.
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Miller, H.E., Engemann, K.J. (2012). Using Analytical Methods in Business Continuity Planning. In: Engemann, K.J., Gil-Lafuente, A.M., Merigó, J.M. (eds) Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management. MS 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30433-0_2
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