Business Continuity Planning – Proactive and Reactive
Business Continuity is managing and establishing plans that will help the organization to stand up again on its feet to continue its business. As we had learned in the class Business Continuity is the process of ensuring continuance of a business if a disruption occurs. This planning is like an immunological fort and a preventive shield which means a focus on the prevention of unplanned events, rather than just the cure. This has meant that disaster recovery has now become a subset of the whole process that covers the whole lifecycle of disaster prevention and recovery.
Nowadays we need business continuity planning more than before. Within few years most news headlines capture many kind of catastrophes suck as bombs, fires, floods, and tornadoes. Most of time these catastrophes are not predictable such as the events of 9/11 that had affect many organizations not just the World Trade Center. So when I have a good complete preventive plan I can make sure of the continuity of the business after a disaster recovery.
In a recent research it has mentioned on average 20 % of all organizations will experience some form of unplanned event once every five years but there is still the need to think about how to cope with the more mundane events, such as power cuts or transport problems.
When a crisis or a disaster occur the first thing that often will be affected is the effective communication and the internet. Therefore it is going to occupy the first item in planning agenda. Since the communication is one of the most important activities in the organization this may cause critical business functions to be disabled. The proactive action for such a problem can be by having an offsite location that is ...