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Building on the tremendous success of our first-ever conference, DRI2012, we're already making plans for next year's event, and we hope you'll be making plans of your own to join us! DRI2013 will be held June 4-6, 2013 in Philadelphia. We'll also be offering volunteer day projects and DRI courses before and after the event. Come to Philadelphia. Attend an incredible conference. Take a DRI course to get certified or add a certification (master level, healthcare, public sector, audit!). Get involved and give back. Earn the CEAPs you need to maintain your certification. And more!
Continuity and Healthcare? If you're in healthcare, your organization is required to have a business continuity program. Both HIPAA and the Joint Commission say so. And the aim of those requirements is to keep your organization up and running no matter what interruption comes your way. For decades, DRI International has been certifying professionals to do just that. But did you know that DRI International also offer the Certified Healthcare Provider Continuity Professional (CHPCP) designation, designed to meet the specific and unique needs of professionals in the healthcare field? The people, like you, who are responsible for continuity in organizations with a uniquely compelling human need for the finest, most robust business continuity programs. The CHPCP certification will set apart qualified individuals by verifying their knowledge of key concepts and practices in continuity. The Business Continuity for the Healthcare Industry course is designed to provide business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management professionals a fundamental understanding of the unique aspects of business continuity in healthcare settings, such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and medical practices. Attendees will be introduced to best practices through DRI International's professional practices for business continuity. The curriculum reflects HIPAA, NFPA 1600, and the Joint Commission standards. The course also gives consideration to NIMS, and other related regulations, laws, and standards. This course is primarily a lecture course, presented in modules, supplemented with discussion and interactive learning exercises. The course culminates with DRI International Healthcare Examination for the Certified Healthcare Provider Continuity Professional (CHPCP) and Associate Healthcare Provider Continuity Professional (AHPCP). While the Certified Healthcare Provider Continuity Professional (CHPCP) designation is based on the DRI International body of knowledge, healthcare-specific additions and customizations are way more than window dressing. The course will be taught by healthcare business continuity professionals and uses the language of the healthcare sector. Additionally, certification requirements were developed with the current healthcare business continuity practitioner in mind. We examined issues such as time in the industry, education, and role and experience in continuity. Where and when can you take the course? The Business Continuity for the Healthcare Industry course is offered at various times throughout the year and across the country...even around the world. Call us at (866) 542-3744 for more information or visit www.drii.org. |
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Greetings!
A guy in an ostrich suit flinging hot dogs, grown men dressed as vegetables running full tilt, two families pitted against each other armed with slingshots, hundreds of people hurling tennis balls at a slow-moving pick-up truck. What do these things have in common? Better question: Where might they be found...and why? If you're a baseball fan like me, you probably recognized the mirth and mayhem typical of minor league baseball, where they still sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch. Actually, at the Reading Phillies First Energy Stadium, the old standby is led by an older gentleman (who has worked at the park since it opened) chauffeured around the field in a golf cart. He is NOT a professional singer and is always gloriously out of tune. But no Reading Phillies spectacle rivals that of the Briscoe Disco.
Adam Briscoe is NOT a professional dancer. Well, he wasn't until the Reading Phils folks made him one. Billed as the "number one fan and dancer" for the Reading Phillies, Briscoe wanders the stadium during every game, leading entire sections of fans in his trademark dance, arms pumping wildly (this guy's rotator cuffs are a medical miracle). Don't believe me; here's the proof!
What's this got to do with business continuity? Well, at a recent game I was doing the Briscoe Disco (no, there's no video evidence of that!) and laughing at the silly promos, and I was thinking about how the business office and marketing people do a great job of using what they've got...which isn't much. A handful of sponsorships from local businesses (burger joints, car dealers, insurance sales people) and some devoted fans. Sure it results in some silly games and pretty contrived promos, but it's all in good fun and it gets the job done. That made me think of all of you and how sometimes you need to make the best of what you've got, get creative, and even put people in roles that might not be obvious picks. You make do too. And you do it to great effect and in times of actual crisis (meaning situations worse than being down by double digits in the bottom of the ninth). Who would've known that Adam Briscoe (a school lunchroom aide according to his Facebook page) could get a crowd going as well as any "real" mascot (so well, in fact, that I'm actually sad on the days when the big league Phillies lend the Phanatic to Reading)? I bet the Reading Phillies didn't. But they took a chance on the Briscoe Disco and it paid off. May all of your pinch hits be grand slams too.
Play ball!
Buffy Rojas
DRI International Director of Communications
brojas@drii.org
(610) 792-4802
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Putting the Bee in BCP:
What Do Bees Know About Risk?
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Check out this fascinating article from the Harvard Business Review about bees and risk. Author Michael O'Malley (himself a hobbyist beekeeper) calls bees "masters at risk management" and says that he came to recognize that "beehives were organizations that naturally got things right. The honeybee colonies I was cultivating were structured for consistent long-term growth and the prevention of severe loss due to unpredictable environmental surprises." For more from O'Malley, click here. Totally worth the read. You'll be buzzing about this one. |
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DRI Day in Brazil: A BCP, GRC Event!
|  Next week (July 2 and 3), DRI International President Al Berman will be speaking at a GRC and Continuity event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, hosted by DARYUS. An entire day of the event is DRI Day! According to DARYUS, "The main objective is to gather the leaders of major organizations to discuss the current demands and global trends of GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) and Business Continuity in view of best practices enriched by the presentation of successful cases. This summit will bring together worldwide institutes and associations such as DRI International, ISACA and EXIN providing rich content, high-level speakers and successful cases of high value." For information, please visit www.grc-inter.com or call Regina at +55.11.3285-6539. |
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Survey Results: Will Your Plans Work?
|  "I love it when a plan comes together," so said George Peppard as the A-Team's infamous leader, Hannibal. And Hannibal's plans did come together in one way or another at the end of every episode. But will your plans work when you need them? That's what we asked in last week's one-question survey. And the survey says that only 13 percent of you give yourselves a 10 (on a scale of one to ten, ten being most confident that your plans will work when you need them). For complete results visit our LinkedIn page. |
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Your Plan's Fatal Flaw?
|  Last week, we asked how confident you are that your plans will work when you need them. This week's one-question survey seeks the answer to a related question: What is most likely to trip up your plans? Click here to answer and then check next wee,k's issue of Drive and our LinkedIn for results. Have a question you'd like answered? Email Buffy Rojas at brojas@drii.org. |
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