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Have you analyzed your facility, equipment, systems, processes, and procedures, of your organization in order to evaluate the ability of your business to continue operations in case of a disaster? A thorough evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of your company’s ‘preparedness’ can give you a clear idea of the possible impact in lost opportunity and real dollars that an interruption or outage may cause.An experienced consulting services staff such as ours can help you assess risk, identify risk prevention alternatives, and determine how best to protect your business. Look for a business continuance partner who can provide the information necessary to enable you to understand the value of your application data as well as the exposure to and costs associated with loss of that data. Where do you start to develop a business continuance plan and what are the methods for determining your ‘preparedness’?

Talk to your users
Identify threats, vulnerabilities, and areas of business impact
Review business processes and establish interdependencies
Determine time-sensitive business processes, functions, departments, and work areas
Determine system, data, and telecommunications supporting the time-sensitive processes, functions, and departments
Determine regulatory and legal considerations
Determine recovery time objectives
Define requirements for all departments

A business continuance evaluation should review various contingency plans and provide recommendations that will help develop processes consistent with industry standard disaster recovery methodologies. Put a recovery plan in place that addresses all critical business functions, a detailed blueprint that defines the resourses, processes, and date required for managing recovery in the event of a business interruption.