An outline of BCP
Business Continuity Planning is the consideration and creation of a collection of directions and plans to be used by company employees in the event of business failure. It is important to notice that BCP does not only cope with the total loss of building or site, as an example a fire but would also handle single failure elements, for instance the loss of the accounts office due to a gas leak and even the loss of a business group, a lotto syndicate winning the lottery could have a huge damaging effect on a company.
BCP also encompasses the accident recovery plan DRP which in its own right will need to be made to cope with the recovery of IT assets to the point of business function.
A useful way to view both the BCP and DRP are as health checks for each component of the business. The inception of these two plans needs serious thought and planning and will need each business unit to be totally clear about what they do day by day and what IT support and functions they have to carry out any and all of their functions.
One of your primary jobs will be to decide on a BCP co-ordinator. This individual will be responsible for meeting all the department heads, gaining a understanding of their requirements. This is going to be done over the course of a bunch of conferences (at least two) with the 1st meeting being used to pose questions that the unit managers can then answer in successive meetings. The creation of a BCP plan must be a group effort allowing all business entities to provide their feedback and extraordinarily significantly to feel a bit like part of the process. The function of making a BCP and Dr plan will mostly require a serious amount of change. Employees are often extremely resistant to change and getting them to instigate change to better support their roles is an excellent way to smooth this process.
Business Continuity Planning is the consideration and creation of a collection of directions and plans to be used by company employees in the event of business failure. It is important to notice that BCP does not only cope with the total loss of building or site, as an example a fire but would also handle single failure elements, for instance the loss of the accounts office due to a gas leak and even the loss of a business group, a lotto syndicate winning the lottery could have a huge damaging effect on a company.
BCP also encompasses the accident recovery plan DRP which in its own right will need to be made to cope with the recovery of IT assets to the point of business function.
A useful way to view both the BCP and DRP are as health checks for each component of the business. The inception of these two plans needs serious thought and planning and will need each business unit to be totally clear about what they do day by day and what IT support and functions they have to carry out any and all of their functions.
One of your primary jobs will be to decide on a BCP co-ordinator. This individual will be responsible for meeting all the department heads, gaining a understanding of their requirements. This is going to be done over the course of a bunch of conferences (at least two) with the 1st meeting being used to pose questions that the unit managers can then answer in successive meetings. The creation of a BCP plan must be a group effort allowing all business entities to provide their feedback and extraordinarily significantly to feel a bit like part of the process. The function of making a BCP and Dr plan will mostly require a serious amount of change. Employees are often extremely resistant to change and getting them to instigate change to better support their roles is an excellent way to smooth this process.
About the Author:
Roy Castleman has worked in the City of London since 1996 in a consultative role in Business IT Supportboth from a management position and as a hands on engineer. He's been involved in a considerable number of disaster recoveryevents where it's been critical to recover a customer from a tragedy.
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