The business continuity planning is the logistical plan of how an organization will recover after a company disaster within a planned period. It presented in a form of manual and kept in a safe place. Strategic and good business continuity plans will help your organization to resolve with any possible disturbance like natural disasters, supply chain problems, power failures and many more.

The manual should always update because organizations do changes over time. Some of  the factors to watch for are staffs, details of important suppliers, big clients, changes in the departments or level of organization, the investment, mission and vision of the company.

Business continuity planning is consists of different chapters. Every phase has a contribution of important role to the plan and each detail needs an intense attention for the success of the plan.

The five main phases or content of the Business continuity plan manual

1. Analysis – It is necessary to put in a list the possible threats and identify the unique strategic recovery steps. Regular threats are as follows: technical and cyber attack, utility outage, typhoon, fire, earthquake, sabotage, disease and more. Prepare the documents of the analysis and the possible recovery plan. A good and effective business continuity plan is design from small to big problem.

2. Solution Design – the purpose and main role of this part is to distinguish the most cost effective solution that meets the requirements of your impact analysis.

3. Implementation – It is the execution of the solution design and done in a work package testing

4. Testing and acceptance – the phase may include the following: crisis command team call-out testing, technical swing test from primary to secondary work locations,

From secondary to primary wok locations, the application test and business process test. The goal of this phase is to attain organizational acceptance that the business solution plan comply with the requirements for the recovery of the company. The usual testing conducted once or at most is twice a year.

5. Maintenance – The manual of a business continuity plan is into three cyclic activities. (a) The manual information awareness and training to those who have critical role to the plan (b) Technical solution’s testing and verification (c) Documented organization recovery procedures testing and verification. The phase is one once or twice in a year

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