Develop a Business Continuity Plan
Streamline the traditional approach to make BCP development manageable and repeatable.
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Without a streamlined approach to BCP:
- Accessing required input from multiple business unit stakeholders can be challenging.
- Months go by without any actionable deliverables.
- Competing priorities derail the project.
Create an actionable BCP with a streamlined process:
- Work with one business unit at a time to carve the task into manageable pieces.
- Focus on the areas most in need of improvement.
- Leverage functional deliverables from the pilot as a foundation for the rest of the organization’s BCP.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Identify BCP maturity, key processes, and dependencies
The Purpose
Define BCP scope, objectives, and stakeholders.
Key Benefits Achieved
Prioritize BCP efforts and level-set scope with key stakeholders.
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| 1.1 | Assess current BCP maturity. |
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| 1.2 | Identify key business processes to include in scope. |
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| 1.3 | Create a flowchart for key business processes to identify business processes, dependencies, and alternatives. |
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Module 2: Conduct a BIA to determine acceptable RTOs and RPOs
The Purpose
Define RTOs and RPOs based on your BIA.
Key Benefits Achieved
Set recovery targets based business impact, and illustrate the importance of BCP efforts via the impact of downtime.
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| 2.1 | Define an objective scoring scale to indicate different levels of impact. |
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| 2.2 | Estimate the impact of a business disruption on cost, goodwill, compliance, and health & safety. |
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| 2.3 | Determine acceptable RTOs/RPOs for selected business processes based on business impact. |
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Module 3: Document the current recovery workflow and projects to close gaps
The Purpose
Create a recovery workflow.
Key Benefits Achieved
Build an actionable, high-level, recovery workflow that can be adapted to a variety of different scenarios.
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| 3.1 | Review tabletop planning – what is it, how is it done? |
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| 3.2 | Walk through a business disruption scenario to determine your current recovery timeline, RTO/RPO gaps, and risks to your ability to resume business operations. |
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| 3.3 | Identify and prioritize projects to close RTO/RPO gaps and mitigate recovery risks. |
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Module 4: Identify remaining BCP documentation and next steps
The Purpose
Extend the results of the pilot BCP and implement governance.
Key Benefits Achieved
Outline the actions required for the rest of your BCMS, and the required effort to complete those actions, based on the results of the pilot.
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| 4.1 | Assign business continuity management (BCM) roles to govern BCP development and maintenance, as well as roles required to execute recovery. |
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| 4.2 | Identify remaining documentation required for the pilot business unit and how to leverage the results to repeat the methodology for remaining business units. |
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| 4.3 | Workshop review and wrap-up. |
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