The initial recovery and/or continuity of business operations. Those activities necessary to maintain operations in crisis-mode. The return of the business operations to the original locations/state. Design, develop, document, and implement the recovery tasks to ensure recovery within the recovery time objective (RTO) of your critical business processes listed in the Business Processes Module.

There are four sets of information required by every organization to ensure that they can effectively recover from any event. ‘Develop Your Plan’ enables you to define and assign these four critical sets of information. You can create groups of tasks, resources, contacts, and assets. Individual tasks, resources, contacts, and assets can be grouped together as a single unit. For example, you can group related tasks into a Task Group to make it easier to manage your plan, and you can group contacts who receive the same messages or sets of instructions together.

The above diagram shows the ‘Develop Your Plan’ stage, which comprises the following modules

A Business Continuity Plan is only as valid as the information it contains. To ensure that the plan can be used effectively in an emergency, it must be accurate, up-to-date, and complete. It is a living document. It is imperative, therefore, that the plan be reviewed often and updated as necessary.

To ensure that the information in your Business Continuity plan is as current as possible, you need to schedule regular maintenance updates. We suggest that you prepare an annual schedule, that indicates a scheduled review of all resource, contact, and asset information.

This diagram shows the ‘Implement Your Plan’ stage, which comprises the following modules.