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The document discusses business continuity and emergency planning. It defines business continuity as having plans to continue operations and services for customers during an emergency and return to full operations quickly. The business continuity lifecycle involves understanding the organization, writing a plan, sharing the plan, testing the plan, and maintaining it. Key steps to a business continuity plan include completing a business impact analysis to identify critical activities, timescales for impacts, and potential impacts in areas like reputation, finances, and legal compliance if activities are disrupted.

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Business Continuity The Basics Presentation

The document discusses business continuity and emergency planning. It defines business continuity as having plans to continue operations and services for customers during an emergency and return to full operations quickly. The business continuity lifecycle involves understanding the organization, writing a plan, sharing the plan, testing the plan, and maintaining it. Key steps to a business continuity plan include completing a business impact analysis to identify critical activities, timescales for impacts, and potential impacts in areas like reputation, finances, and legal compliance if activities are disrupted.

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Business Continuity

The Basics

Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Team


Where Business Continuity Fits

Disaster Recovery Emergency Planning is


ensures you have back undertaken by local and
up plans for your central government
organisation’s computer alongside the
and telephony systems. emergency services to
ensure the local
community are assisted
Business Continuity ensures you have plans and supported during
for your organisation that ensure you can an emergency.
continue to offer a level of service to your
customers during an emergency and return to
full service as quickly as possible.
The Business Continuity Lifecycle

• Understand your
organisation.
• Write your plan.
• Share your plan.
• Test your plan.
• Maintain your plan.
Source: The BCI Good Practice Guidelines
Key Steps to a BCP
Completing a Business Impact
Analysis
To complete a Business Impact Analysis:
• Step 1 – identify the business activities of your organisation.
These may include:

- internal activities such as payroll and purchasing.

- external activities such as providing a service or selling a


product to a customer.
• This should be done at a level relevant to the structure and
complexity of your organisation.
Completing a Business Impact
Analysis
To complete a Business Impact Analysis:
• Step 2 – assess for each activity what the realistic timescale is
before there would be an impact if that activity could not be
performed.
• Assess the impact against prescribed timescales:
- within 24 hours
- between 1 and 3 days
- between 4 and 7 days
- more than 7 days
• Use timescales that are relevant to your organisation.
Completing a Business Impact
Analysis
To complete a Business Impact Analysis:
• Step 3 – assess for each activity what the realistic impact is against
prescribed factors if that activity could not be performed.
• Consider the following factors:
- Reputation
- Internal
- External
- Financial
- Legal/Regulatory
Next Steps

To understand your organisation:


• Risks – what are the main threats that are likely to cause
disruption to you?
• Resources – if the worst happens what resources will be needed
to enable a short term response and full recovery?
• Key Information – if you have to respond who are the key people
you may need?
• Incident Management – if you have to respond who will do what?
Next Steps

To consider for your plan:


• Format – small is good, use K.I.S.S approach.
• Roles – if you have to respond who does what?
• Invocation – who makes the decision?
• Distribution – who has copies and where are they kept?
• Testing – how do you make sure things work?
• Maintenance – who is responsible for upkeep of the plan?

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