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Why the Business Continuity Plan Must Be a Living Document

Diligent

The business continuity plan – sometimes known as a disaster recovery plan – is an essential document for all organizations, designed to ensure their operations can continue with minimal interruption in the event of an unexpected disruption. What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)? Emergency communications.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

For these reasons, it’s important that IT departments (and business continuity professionals) make sure their organizations are capable of restoring their IT services after an outage. Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site. Determine whether a restoration at the alternate site is necessary.

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

If we could make up everything on the day of a disaster and have a successful response there would be no point in emergency planning or business continuity, but as we know fine well, having exercised plans in place limits the impact of incidents, saves lives and money and shortens the length of the disruption.

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

If we could make up everything on the day of a disaster and have a successful response there would be no point in emergency planning or business continuity, but as we know fine well, having exercised plans in place limits the impact of incidents, saves lives and money and shortens the length of the disruption.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable? How would you communicate with the team members if you could not be in the same location?

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

The current situation has brought about changes to business and work life. This means that management will need to address what their new business model will be. Business Continuity and Risk Management will hopefully be given the respect it deserves. There will be little going back to as was. Two reasons for this.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

The current situation has brought about changes to business and work life. This means that management will need to address what their new business model will be. Business Continuity and Risk Management will hopefully be given the respect it deserves. Business Continuity will be taken more seriously.

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