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BCP Initiation

Covers the documents you will need to establish your BCP function and lay down the policies and standards under which it will operate. This includes the Health Check for analysing your current vulnerability and a set of quick hits to get you started.

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Project Planning and Budgeting

The documents that define how the work to produce a tried and tested Business Continuity Plan will be managed and funded.

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Business Impact Analysis

BIA determines the threats to the continued operation of your company or organisation (both internal and external). The BIA is focused on understanding the business and establishing what is vital for its survival following a major incident affecting normal operations At the heart of BIA is the need to determine the response time for critical functions to be up and running. These are then supported by the financial and service implications of being unable to operate

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Risk Identification

RIA determines the threats to the continued operation of your company or organisation (both internal and external). For each threat it is important to identify their likelihood of occurrence in order to determine their relative impact. This document set provides you with a set of useful tools for that process. It also provides the format for reporting the finding of RIA and explaining the concept to staff and colleagues. It is important to note that the RIA conducted within a Business Continuity Program covers only operational risks and is focused only on critical business processes

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Strategy and Implementation

Covers the documents you will need to take the data gathering exercises (such as RIA and BIA above) and determine who and what gets recovered, when and how. This also includes suppliers both of services and goods to your organisation and business continuity facilities.

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Planning/
Documentation

This document set provides the plans and schedules that form the bulk of the final Business Continuity Plan. At its heart is a formal document (or set of documents) that will be your physical Business Continuity Plan. This formal, large document brings together the research carried out under such activities as RIA and BIA, and then uses the decision made in the Strategy area to define the plan. The sections of the plan are made up from a variety of documents detailing what has to be done, by whom, and when, in order to meet the recovery strategy

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Crisis and Emergency Management

This document set defines the tools you will need when you invoke your Business Continuity Plan. Once invoked the plan will be managed by a series of Emergency Teams with differing responsibilities. You may decide to combine some of these, to simplify the structure or make better use of limited resources.. It gives the list of actions and instructions to each of the Emergency Teams (also sometimes called Crisis Management Teams).It also contains sample press releases, evacuation documents and the CASCADE tree by which communication will be moved through the organisation

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Training and Awareness

Defines the processes required to raise awareness among staff of Business Continuity and train them in their roles and responsibilities. This document set contains material to be used in the training process, ideas for training and raising awareness, requirements for periodic review of your BCP.

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Testing

Describes how to plan and execute tests for your Business Continuity Plan including Cascade tests for communication in the event of an emergency, scenario testing, and feedback collection from those participating in a test. It also covers testing of suppliers’ plans and the contents for a report detailing the findings of the testing process.

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Pandemics such as Swine Flu

Outlines actions that can be taken to evaluate and prepare your organisation for the threat of Swine Flu disrupting your operation.

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