What is Strategic Continuity Planning?
Strategic Continuity Planning is a new way of using old tools from both Business Continuity Planning and Strategic Planning. What we want from the outcome of Strategic Continuity Planning would be a Continuity Plan tied to the company s Strategic Plan. This sounds hard? So did the idea of taking the steps from DRP to Contingency Planning to Resumption Planning to Continuity Planning when they were first broached. However, we have two planning processes that are well defined. All that needs to be done here is to compare and couple some of the steps involved. Let us look at some of these components that we as Continuity Planners can become involved in. The Mission We often talk about mission critical applications, but we seldom talk about the mission part of those applications. The company has a mission. The two places we can usually find the mission statement are the annual reports to stockholders and the strategic plan. We usually read neither of these items. How can we know what is mi
