Case Study: Practical, Right-Sized BCP

Author(s): Frank Trovato

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Use this example to understand the governance and incident response components of a BCP, and to provide a model to follow for your BCP project.

The case-study client leveraged Info-Tech’s Develop a Business Continuity Plan blueprint to create practical, concise, and easy-to-maintain BCP governance and incident response plans, summarized below.

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Governance Documents

(Files are labeled with the prefix BCP-GV)

BC Incident Response Plan (i.e. Recovery Documents)

(Files are labeled with the prefix BCP-REC)

BCP-GV1 Maturity Scorecard

BCP-REF2 Tabletop Planning Results (draft recovery workflow) (Visio, PDF)
BCP-REF1 Business Process Workflows (Visio, PDF)

BCP-REC1 Recovery Workflow (building on the Tabletop Planning Results)(Visio, PDF)

BCP-GV2 Business Impact Analysis

BCP-REC2 Notification, Assessment, and Disaster Declaration Procedures (supplements the Recovery Workflow)

BCP-GV3 Action Items to Close Gaps (in place of the BCP Project Roadmap Tool)

BCP-REC3 Recovery Playbook (supplements the Recovery Workflow; focused on business recovery after a disaster is declared)

BCP-GV4 Teams and Contacts (based on the BCP Reference Workbook)

BCP-GV5 Summary


Note: The Develop a Business Continuity Plan blueprint contains additional tools and templates, such as a project charter and a BCP policy, to help execute the process, but are not part of your core BCP and are not included in this example.

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