You’re Crawling to a Mature
Business Continuity Plan

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What it Means to be Crawling to a Mature Business Continuity Plan

  • Very little IT operations and involvement
  • User call notification 
  • Non-documented strategies
  • Loosely aligned function
  • Informal policies applied to process performed by personnel with mixed skill levels
  • BCP is still in the beginning stages

How to Start Walking to a Mature Business Continuity Plan

  • Develop scope for the BCP
  • Initiate the process for the Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
  • Develop RACI for BCP

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Next Phases of the Business Continuity Maturity Model

What it Means to be Walking to a Mature Business Continuity Plan

  • Strategic approach in place
  • Well defined processes
  • Supported by a specific and highly trained team
  • Ability to analyze trends and predict problems
  • Still fighting fires instead of preventing them
  • No traction within the organization
  • Some key threats still need to be identified

How to Start Running to a Mature Business Continuity Plan

  • Consolidate BCP processes into a single approach
  • Gain larger exposure to overall Enterprise
  • Consolidate key threats into single repository

What it Means to be Running to a Mature Business Continuity Plan

  • Management process performed at an optimal level
  • Best practices are in full use
  • Aligned with the organizational strategic plan and personnel
  • Managing IT as a business
  • All key threats have been identified
  • End-to-end testing of BCP not completed
  • BCP updates are a core part of CM or Risk Management

How to Start Flying to a Mature Business Continuity Plan

  • Develop ITBM Capability across the enterprise
  • Complete end-to-end vulnerability assessment
  • Measure the impact of the BCP on the overall organization

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