Business continuity planning
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Summary of Business Continuity Planning
Business continuity planning is essential for organizations to manage and mitigate risks during disruptive events. By developing a comprehensive plan, you can outline key activities, documentation, recovery teams, approval processes, and potential loss scenarios. This structured approach is facilitated through the BCM UIB Workspace, enabling efficient task management throughout the planning process.
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Key Features
- Creation of Business Continuity Plans: BCM program managers can create plans from the Home page or the Planning record page, detailing scope, documentation, and recovery teams.
- Review and Approval Process: The business impact analysis owner submits the plan for review and approval by relevant managers, ensuring all aspects are vetted.
- Workflow Management: The platform allows for structured workflows to be set up for managing business continuity tasks effectively.
- Asset Recovery Identification: Utilize configuration item relationship data from CMDB to identify and recover assets relevant to your business continuity plan.
- Team Management: Create and manage recovery teams, defining roles and responsibilities to execute the plan efficiently.
Key Outcomes
Implementing a well-crafted business continuity plan prepares your organization to respond effectively to crises, minimizing potential disruptions. Through the BCM UIB Workspace, you can streamline the planning process, ensuring all critical components are addressed and documented appropriately. Ultimately, this enhances your organization’s resilience and capability to recover from adverse situations.
Business continuity planning helps you enact and mitigate risk at the time of an event. You can address and plan on the primary scope of the activities, documentation, loss scenarios, recovery teams, approvals, and so on. You can then configure a structured workflow of your business continuity planning tasks in BCM UIB Workspace.
When you create a comprehensive business continuity plan for different possible disruptive scenarios, your organization is equipped to face a crisis or any adverse situation.
Steps involved in creating a business continuity plan
- The BCM program manager or planner creates a business continuity plan either from the Home page or the Planning record page in the List view of the BCM UIB Workspace.
- The BCM program manager or planner adds additional details for the business continuity plan such as its scope, documentation section, recovery teams, related plans, and so on.
- The business impact analysis owner reviews the information and submits the analysis for a review and approval to the business manager for services or IT manager for applications respectively.
- The business manager, IT manager, or BCM lead review the details of the business continuity plan and approve it.
- The approved business continuity plan is moved to Approved and later, it is moved to the Archived state.
- The business continuity plan owner can generate the PDF of the plan and save a copy for reference.
A typical business continuity plan workflow is shown in the following example:
Setup tasks for business continuity planning
If you are the BCP administrator, you can view Setup for business continuity plan for information on the BCP setup tasks.
Creating a business continuity plan in Business Continuity Workspace
You can navigate to the Planning tab in the Home page and select Create BCP as shown in the following example.
For the description of the cards and action buttons in the Planning tab of the Home page, see Home page view.
- You can also navigate to the List view and select New in the Planning records.
To create a business continuity plan in Business Continuity Workspace, see Create a business continuity plan. For information on managing tasks related to a business continuity plan, see Structured workflows for Business Continuity Planning in BCM Configurable Workspace.