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JDR Vol.7 No.4 Jun. 2012

“Business Continuity Plan (BCP)”

Guest Editor: Kenji Watanabe (Professor, Graduate School of Social Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology)

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Editorial:

Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

Kenji Watanabe, p. 343

Among the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, there were a large number of new findings, including which preparations functioned as planned and which did not. Now that a year has elapsed since the earthquake disaster, the parties concerned need to reexamine those measures which are yet to be implemented since we should not see the same results after a large scale disaster in the future as those we saw in the past.

In this JDR Special Issue on Business Continuity Plan (BCP), I tried to ask for papers not only from academia but also from business fields to make this issue practical and useful to be leveraged for our next steps in preparing for incoming disasters. As a result, this issue obtains papers from various fields from academia to financial businesses and also with several different approaches which includes actual real case studies.

Many of papers in this issue focus on intangible part of business continuity activities that is different from the traditional disaster management approaches which have mainly focused on tangibles or hardware reinforcement against natural disasters.

Recent wide-area disasters taught us the importance of intangibles and we should start discussions more in details with aspects such as corporate value, emergency transportation & logistics, training & exercises, funding arrangement, and management systems. I hope that discussions and insights in this issue will help our discussions and actions to move forward.

Finally, I really thank the authors’ insightful contributions and the referees’ intensive professional advices to make this JDR Special Issue valuable to our society in preparing for incoming disasters.

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Note

Note:

Ideal Interoperability of Logistics that Enhance Resilience of Supply Chains Based on PPP
(Public-Private Partnership)

Kenji Watanabe, pp. 344-348

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Papers

Paper:

Key Elements of Functional BCP – Post March 11 Survey Review

Shinichi Okabe, pp. 349-356

Abstract | Preview | Full Text (PDF 1901KB)

Paper:

BCM Case Study on Financial Companies in Japan:
Review of Decision-Making Process to Develop a BCM Helicopter Solution

Yasutake Sayanagi, pp. 357-362

Abstract | Preview | Full Text (PDF 1187KB)

Paper:

Survey on the Disaster Preparedness and Business Continuity of Companies
in the Great East Japan Earthquake
– Improving the Business Value by the Information Sharing and Disclosure of BCPs –

Yoshiki Hiruma and Kentaro Noda, pp. 363-367

Abstract | Preview | Full Text (PDF 1549KB)

Paper:

Support Systems to Maintain Building Function Continuity in the Event of a Disaster
– A Case Study Introducing the Concept of Rate of Awareness of Important Information in the Central Monitoring Room

Yukihiro Masuda and Koji Akamatsu, pp. 368-375

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Paper:

Treatment of Unexpected Risk on Business Continuity Management
Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Hitoshi Kawaguchi, pp. 376-385

Abstract | Preview | Full Text (PDF 1978KB)

Paper:

Business Continuity Planning Status of the Private Sector in the Asia Pacific Region

Takahiro Ono, pp. 386-391

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Survey Report

Survey Report:

Form Development for Self-Rating an Organization’s Vulnerability and Resilience to Disruption

Yoshihiro Kohno, Yukihiro Masuda, Hironori Nagahashi, Kazuaki Tanaka, and Kuniyuki Tashiro, pp. 392-407

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