Business Resumption Planning
Goals:
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Create Business Resumption Plans for all business units.
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Develop Business Resumption Teams.
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Initiate a Maintenance and Exercise Schedule.
Business Resumption Planning
Business Resumption Planning Process
The Seven Step Program
- Introduction and Orientation.
- Define Mission Critical Business Functions.
- Prioritize Business Functions for Recovery.
- Identify Recovery resource requirements for Business Functions.
- Recovery/Resumption Plan Development.
- Exercise and review of your plan.
- Plan Maintenace.
Business Resumption Planning
Business Resumption Planning Committee Responsibilities
- Conduct workshops and training sessions that assist Business Resumption liaisons gather information for their plan.
- Provide technical support during planning, development, and maintenance.
- Develop a comprehensive plan that incorporates ALL critical tasks .
- Establish a timetable for plan reviews and exercises.
Business Resumption Planning
Business Resumption Liaison Responsibilities
- Identify and document mission critical functions
- Document critical recovery tasks.
- Identify and recruit key employees for recovery teams.
- Participate in quarterly / semi-annual table top exercises.
- Point of contact for disseminating Business Resumption information.
What your Plan must contain
- Notification procedures, call list(s).
- Recovery Team structure.
- A prioritized recovery schedule for mission critical functions.
- A list of tasks required for restoring critical functions.
- Functional responsibility for critical tasks.
- Resource Requirements.
- Alternate Worksite Requriements.
- Your Vendors.
- Business Partners.
Why Exercise?
- Highlight the strengths of the recovery plan.
- Identifies the areas that need improvement.
- Allows recovery team members to become familiar with their Business Resumption roles.
- Ensure Critical business functions can be restored.
- First step in Maintaining your plan.
- Builds Confidence in Your Plan
Where do we go from here?
- The Questionnaire, that your received prior to this presentation, was designed to focus your attention on the Business Resumption Planning process. When completed the questionnaire will provide a starting point for your plan.
- We will meet with you to start prioritizing your functions; build your recovery team(s);develop your recovery tasks; and identifying your resource needs.
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