How long will Business Continuity Planning take?
WWW.PLAN-IT-CONTROL-IT.COM provides a wealth of documents, plans, spreadsheets, report formats and layouts, agendas, questionnaires, checklists etc. You could in theory use them all and develop some very extensive plans. Our recommendation is that you are selective in what you do, and what you use. Business Continuity Planning, like all good business processes, should be appropriate to your organisation, it’s structure, customers and staff. The watchword is appropriateness, do what is right for your business, use the tool kit provided to build an appropriate response to disaster, one that fits your organisation and that your staff can believe in and execute. to the top of the page Do I need to test the plan(s) Absolutely yes. Fundamental to having a realistic, robust and workable plan is the knowledge that to the best of your beliefs it will work. And the only way of knowing this is to TEST. Testing a BCP is not an easy task, we have dedicated a complete section of the documents to thi
