CHAPTER 5Step 2: Assemble a Planning Team
The second step to business continuity planning requires that you have a comprehensive and detailed understanding of both the big picture and day-to-day company operations. This level of understanding is difficult to find in just one individual, which is why this step involves assembling a planning team.
The benefits of using a team approach include:
- Increased visibility of the process
- Representation from each area of the organization
- More investment and buy-in
- Spreading of the workload
- Different perspectives
- Greater discussion
- Increased quality in problem solving
ROLE OF THE PLANNING TEAM
The role of the business continuity planning team begins with development, documentation, and implementation of the plan in a timely manner.
The team also needs to ensure that the plan addresses all critical functions of the organization and meets the desired recovery objectives.
The planning team will determine the scope of the plan and the criteria for its success. Team members will be assigned responsibilities for later steps, such as collecting data, developing alternate response options, and writing the document.
The planning team should also be responsible for:
- Detecting and announcing disaster events
- Initiating disaster recovery response
- Activating the business continuity plan (BCP)
- Monitoring the situation until operations return to normal
- Deactivating the business continuity procedures once this occurs
- Testing the procedures and regularly ...
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