Business Continuity Planning
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Business continuity planning involves creating a plan to minimize the effects of an interruption to an organization's operations in the event of natural disaster or other disruption to one or more critical business functions or resources. Learn how.
By Disaster Recovery World.com
Would you know what to do if an earthquake, flood, or hurricane hit you tomorro? Could your business survive? The resulting damage often goes beyond that of structure and contents. It means rebuilding costs, pressure on credit lines, loss of savings, out-of-work employees, all of which could be deadly to the future of your business. Your business operation can be interrupted by direct damages to your business location and equipment, or by failure of critical local infrastructures like electrical power, water supply and road systems.
(Added: 29-Mar-2005 Hits: 361)
By Monica Zein, Sally Cohn, Tracy Broadway
It is often thought that Business Continuity Planning is a project with a finite ending. Not so! Creating the Business Continuity Plan is just a part of developing a business recovery program. The process also includes evaluating costs, selecting an alternate site(s), making employees aware of the Plan, updating the Plan and testing the Plan on a regular basis.
(Added: 29-Mar-2005 Hits: 344)
By Rolf von Roessing, MBCI, CISA, CISSP
The “whose budget” syndrome in business continuity management has been a hotly debated issue for some time. For the BCM auditor, the question of funding a corporate continuity process or program looks insignificant at first sight. In terms of adequacy of funding, there are no immediate difficulties - quite simply add up the numbers, and match them against typical benchmarks such as turnover, profit before tax, or any other predefined criteria. A closer look reveals that the funding (and therefore sponsorship!) structure for business continuity often leads to a hidden organizational bias.
(Added: 21-Mar-2005 Hits: 331)
By Paul Allen
Whatever strategy organizations employ, it is clear that business continuity planning will require a long-term commitment. The London bombings may not lead to a material change in regulatory policies or institutions' internal plans, but they already have turned up the pressure for financial services firms to get their plans in order.
(Added: 19-Jan-2006 Hits: 427)
By University of Toronto.ca
If you are new to recovery planning, make sure that you research the subject thoroughly before embarking on a disaster recovery project. Consider engaging a consultant (internal or external to your organization) to help you in your project planning effort. Disaster recovery planning is not a two-month project, neither is it a project that once completed, you can forget about. An effective recovery plan is a live recovery plan. The plan must be maintained current and tested/exercised regularly
(Added: 29-Mar-2005 Hits: 727)
By Doug Henderson
The 21st century has brought businesses new threats, an increased demand for continuity of operations and a reliance on new technologies. Effective planning must address all of these constantly evolving factors. The three distinct but interdependent planning areas are often referred to as follows:
Emergency (or Incident) Response (or Crisis Management) Planning,
Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), and Information Technology (or Disaster Recovery) Planning.
(Added: 31-Mar-2005 Hits: 289)
