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There are ten aspects to business evailability.
Project Initiation And Management
Establish the need for a Business Continuity Plan. Organise and manage the project to completion within agreed time and budget limits.
Risk Evaluation and Control
Determine the events and environmental surroundings that can adversely affect an organisation and its facilities with disruption as well as disaster, the damage such events can cause, and the controls needed to prevent or minimise the effects of potential loss.
Business Impact Analysis
Identify the impacts resulting from disruptions and disaster scenarios that can affect an organisation. Establish critical functions, their recovery priorities, and inter-dependencies so that the recovery time objective can be set.
Developing Business Continuity Strategies
Determine and guide the selection of alternative business recovery operating strategies for recovery of business and information technologies within the recovery time objective, while maintaining the organisation's critical functions.
Emergency Response and Operations
Develop and implement procedures for responding to and stabilising the situation following an incident or event, including establishing and managing an Emergency Operations Centre to be used as a command centre during the emergency.
Developing and Implementing Business Continuity Plans
Design, develop, and implement the Business Continuity Plan that provides recovery within the recovery time objective.
Awareness and Training Programs
Prepare and deliver a program to create corporate awareness and enhance the skills required to develop, implement, maintain, and execute the Business Continuity Plan.
Maintaining and Exercising Business Continuity Plans
Pre-plan and co-ordinate plan exercises, and evaluate and document plan exercise results. Develop processes to maintain the currency of continuity capabilities and the Plan document in accordance with the organisation's strategic direction.
Public Relations and Crisis Co-ordination
Develop, co-ordinate, evaluate, and exercise plans to handle the media during crisis situations. Develop, co-ordinate, evaluate, and exercise plans to communicate with and, as appropriate, provide trauma counselling for employees and their families, key customers, critical suppliers, owners/stockholders, and corporate management during crisis. Ensure all stakeholders are kept informed on an as-needed basis.
Co-ordination with Public Authorities
Establish applicable procedures and policies for co-ordinating continuity and restoration activities with local authorities while ensuring compliance with applicable statutes or regulations.
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