Critical Elements of Disaster Recovery & Business/Service Continuity Plan

Overview: The numerous community-wide disasters, as well as singular disasters that municipalities, institutions, businesses and government agencies have suffered in the last dozen or so years have shown us that planning for disaster recovery only is simply not enough. One must also plan beyond the emergency response phase for business and service resumption and continuity. In addition to planning for the recovery of critical information services and applications, we must address equally important issues such as human resources, vital records, telecommunications, risk management, loss control, security, environmental concerns, and the facility which houses the work environment itself. More often today it is the Emergency Response Coordinator, Risk or Insurance Manager, Administrator, Facility or Safety Manager who is being asked to complete the plan. These additional issues also directly affect the bottom line, including service and business interruption, and loss of public confidence. Once your critical areas have been identified, your software planning product should enable you to easily and quickly develop the plans, enter and maintain the data critical to your recovery and provide you with a swift and successful plan activation. Automation of the planning process allows one to more thoroughly create the plan, maintain it and, when necessary, activate it in a constantly changing and downsizing environment. A well designed, implemented and tested contingency plan is a teamwork effort. Through thorough input from the managers of the areas we have discussed here, as well as others, (including the possible use of external consultants) your plan can be successfully responsive to unexpected circumstances and their requirements for business/service resumption and continuity.

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