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A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a document that contains guidance on how to
recover and continue an organization's business operations after a disaster or significant
services-affecting incident.
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For the purpose of a BCP, we define a "disaster" as any incident that causes inaccessibility
of inoperability to an organization's facility or technology, and possibly permanently.
TAMP's research has identified that there are well over 200 incidences that cause
a disaster. Therefore, most times, we recommend developing BCPs based on the result
of an incident, i.e., inoperability or inaccessibility to a facility or technology;
rather than the incident itself. To foster clearness, our consultants appropriately
label incident-based plans, e.g., Payroll System Recovery Plan, Hurricane Incident
Response and Recovery Plan, Earthquake Incident Response and Recovery Plan, etc.
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Most of our BCPs are designed to provide guidance for organizations under two scenarios:
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What to do differently if you could not gain access to your facility.
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What to do differently if you did not have access to your technology.
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While identifying and documenting the recovery and continuity tasks to support the
scenarios mentioned above, we also identify and document the recovery/continuity
resources to support the tasks. For example, the recovery task that reads "Notify
recovery team leaders" would need to have the supporting resource information, i.e.,
personnel contact information. As another example, the recovery task that reads
"Notify the XYZ vendor or business partner" would need to have the supporting resource
information, i.e., vendor and/or business partner contact information. Alphabetically,
the dependency and resource information that must be considered for inclusion in
every BCP includes, equipment, facilities, forms & stationery, personnel, software/applications,
supplies, vendors, partners and clients, vital records, and other interdependencies.
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BCPs are developed for various levels of planning, e.g., enterprise, facility, department,
business unit, IT application, etc. The salient information in our developed and
published BCPs includes:
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Introduction, scope, objectives, etc.
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Disaster activation procedures, including staging areas, emergency operation center
locations, etc.
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Organization charts, call lists, etc.
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Recovery priorities, strategies, tasks, etc.
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Recovery resource, dependency, interdependency information, etc.
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Supporting diagrams, etc.
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Other information depending on the scope of the plan
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TAMP Systems has more than 25 years of continuity planning expertise and know-how;
and has earned and maintains a CBCV certification from DRI, which is the world-wide
leader in more than 90 countries for education and certifications in business continuity
management. You can be rest assured that your plans will be usable, executable and
workable by using TAMP for your business continuity planning needs.
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