Overview

Business continuity planning (BCP) is the creation and validation of a practiced logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical business processes within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption. This logistical plan is called a Business Continuity Plan.

The Business Continuity Plan addresses the recovery of business processes and personnel regardless of whether they have a dependency on information technology for their operation.   The recovery of IT resources is addressed in a Disaster Recovery Plan.

Most clients are required to have a Business Continuity Plan as a regulatory requirement.

Organizations can incur losses in the hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars for each hour of downtime.

40% of all businesses that suffer a disaster and have no Business Continuity Plan never reopen.

An organization may have an IT Disaster Recovery Plan, but without a Business Continuity Plan they will not know the documented steps to recover critical business processes.  An organization needs both an IT Disaster Recovery Plan and a Business Continuity Plan.

Deliverable

The deliverable from this project is a detailed Business Continuity Plan showing the steps you will follow in the event of a disaster.