Critical Facilities White Paper
Special Edition

Mission Critical vs Critical Mission Thinking

Many sectors of today’s global economy are dependent upon reliable and secure critical facilities. Such facilities go by various names, including network operations center, command and control centers, electronic data processing centers, or simply “mission critical” operations. The combination of hardware, software, operating controls, physical environment and human resources must be appropriately balanced and aligned to provide uninterrupted availability and appropriate levels of security. Downtime and/or security breaches can have profound implications on the host enterprise, causing consequential damages to customers and other segments of the community.

While mission critical thinking has dominated the management approach of many enterprises, today’s business environment merits an evolution in thinking and business practices to critical mission thinking.

This white paper is prepared as an executive level overview of the factors that should encourage organizations to progress to critical mission thinking, and specifically to:

• Educate board members and senior level executives
  
• Explain the differences between “mission critical” and “critical mission” thinking
  
• Illustrate how critical mission thinking can lead to risk mitigation, business improvement and competitive advantage
  
• Present an approach for enterprise-oriented critical mission business improvement and risk management

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Check out the Global Best Practices white paper series:

1. Security Considerations for Critical and Hypercritical Facilities™

2. Mission Critical Facilities and Operations: Executive Overview of Threshold Considerations

3. Commissioning Critical Facilities

4. Outsourcing Considerations for Critical Facilities

Download our new Critical Facilities Brochure:

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If you would like a brochure mailed to you, please contact:

Cyrus Izzo (cizzo@syska.com)
National Critical Facilities Director
800.328.1600 or 212.921.2300