Business Continuity Plan Development

Solid business continuity plan development begins with identifying and mitigating high-risk threats in the Risk Assessment. The basis of all planning rests on the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), which provides a basis for ALL recovery strategy development by mapping a prioritization of all critical business activities that must be operational following a disaster, along with the critical information technology and personnel resources that support them.

Many companies begin BCP plan development with asking subjective questions to various executives and staff members, and use the answers to determine what business functions should be recovered first. This long and tedious task typically produces only marginal results because it leaves one person or a few people to decide how all the business components interact and which are most important.

We have developed proprietary metrics and algorithms that objectively maps business recovery – and does all of the heavy lifting for you. With ResilienceONE®, you can gain true insight into risk and develop stronger plans.

All of the following critical elements of a business continuity plan are built in our ResilienceONE® software.

The Risk Assessment:

• Determine threats to your people, facilities, and IT infrastructure.
• Identify operational vulnerabilities and poor business processes.
• Access cost-effective mitigation strategies to reduce the threat probability or impact.

The Business Impact Analysis (BIA):

• Understand normal business operations and how IT resources and people support them.
• Prioritize critical business activities, IT resources, and people.
• Provide the baseline blueprint for business recovery strategies.

After determining your organization’s risk factors and critical business functions, you can start developing your response and recovery plans. A comprehensive BCP is comprised three elements that work together to help you respond to a disaster and quickly resume operations.

• The Business Recovery Plan provides step-by-step work-around procedures for operating critical business functions with the least reliance on people and IT under any post-disaster circumstances.
• The Crisis Management Plan provides a step-by-step action plan for facility and people-related issues and provides for safety of personnel at all work sites.
• The IT Disaster Recovery Plan maps out step-by-step procedures to restore critical IT resources, including hardware, electronic and hard copy data, applications, equipment, telecommunications, and supplies.

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