Kobe University will begin researching business continuity planning (BCP) in fiscal 2007 in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
BCP contains a set of guidelines for companies to quickly resume their operations after a disaster.
As firms must continue to operate to ensure the early rehabilitation of disaster-stricken areas, the three universities will work together to establish measures to minimize disaster damage to companies.
BCP establishes concrete measures, including how to create backup systems and ensure a substitute office or employees. It has increased in popularity among firms in the United States and Europe after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. In Japan, the plan has also been of high interest, attracting many companies.
The University of Pittsburgh is known for its disaster medicine and risk management research, while a specialty of the University of Karlsruhe is disaster research.
Kobe University, which endured the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake and is promoting research on minimizing disaster damage, will utilize the findings of the research on disaster-stricken companies to continue its own business restoration. It will then include the know-how of the other two universities that are advanced in BCP research and establish a system to draw up its own plan.
The three universities will receive aid from the European Commission's science and technology aid project.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070118TDY16003.htm
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