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Develop a Business Continuity Plan

Streamline the traditional approach to make BCP development manageable and repeatable.

The Situation

  • Recent crises have increased executive awareness and internal pressure to create a business continuity plan (BCP).
  • Industry and government-driven regulations require evidence of sound business continuity practices.
  • Customers demand their vendors provide evidence of a workable BCP prior to signing a contract.
  • IT leaders, because of their cross-functional view and experience with incident management and DR, are often asked to lead BCP efforts.

Develop a Business Continuity Plan visualization
  • Implement a structured and repeatable process that you apply to one business unit at a time to keep BCP planning efforts manageable.
  • Use the results of the pilot to identify gaps in your recovery plans and reduce overall continuity risk while continuing to assess specific risks as you repeat the process with additional business units.
  • Enable business leaders to own the BCP going forward. Develop a template that the rest of the organization can use.
  • Leverage BCP outcomes to refine IT DRP recovery objectives and achieve DRP-BCP alignment.

Blueprint Contents

  • Develop a Business Continuity Plan – Executive Brief
  • Develop a Business Continuity Plan – Phases 1-4
  • Case Study: Practical, Right-Sized BCP
  • BCP Maturity Scorecard
  • BCP Pilot Project Charter Template
  • BCP Business Process Workflows Example (Visio)
  • BCP Business Process Workflows Example (PDF)
  • BCP Business Impact Analysis Tool
  • BCP Tabletop Planning Template (Visio)
  • BCP Tabletop Planning Template (PDF)
  • BCP Project Roadmap Tool
  • BCP Relocation Checklists
  • BCP Pilot Results Presentation
  • BCP Summary
  • Business Continuity Teams and Roles Tool
  • BCP Recovery Workflow Example (Visio)
  • BCP Recovery Workflow Example (PDF)
  • BCP Notification, Assessment, and Disaster Declaration Plan
  • BCP Business Process Workarounds and Recovery Checklists
  • Business Continuity Management Policy
  • Business Unit BCP Prioritization Tool
  • Industry-Specific BIA Guidelines
  • BCP-DRP Maintenance Checklist
  • Develop a COVID-19 Pandemic Response Plan Storyboard

Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

9.5/10

Overall Impact

$41,332

Average $ Saved

27

Average Days Saved

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Client JAMP Pharma Corporation
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $50,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Venkat was astounding throughout the project. Hisr tailored approach to the Business Continuity workshop was exactly what we needed. Our team now f...
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Client AgWest Farm Credit, FLCA
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
Always a pleasure working with Frank - his ability to grasp what is needed and present ideas is much appreciated.
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Client APEGA
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $100K
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Best: we now have a method that has alignment amongst key people who will lead subsequent maturity steps Worst: our business people were not the...
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Client 4Wall Entertainment
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $34,000
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
Joe Riley has extensive expertise and has collaborated with 4Wall on several workshops over the years. Because he knows our IT department and indus...
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Client City of Birmingham
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $54,400
Days Saved 50
Testimonial
The entire experience was excellent. This is our second time having Venkat here. He is outstanding. Suffice to say it was tough sometimes to addre...
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Client SOUTHERN AFRICAN CUSTOMS UNION
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $68,000
Days Saved 105
Testimonial
The presenter simply knew his stuff and was patient and flexible even when things weren't going according to plan.
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Client Transpharmation Canada Ltd.
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $25,000
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
It's hard to articulate time saved because I don't think I would have been able to do this without Frank's help and guidance. However, having the f...
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Client Florida Department of Revenue
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $2,584
Days Saved 2
Testimonial
Note: The days saved and financial impact answers in this survey are strictly estimates. Both numbers couple be more or less, pending usage and out...
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Client Shelter Mutual Insurance Company
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $68,000
Days Saved 32
Testimonial
The best part of the experience was having Sumit as our facilitator. He brought knowledge to our company and help to foster collaborative discussi...
Member Testimonials
Client New Mexico Office of the Secretary of State
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $34,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Venkat provided a lot of information on the BCP process and guided the participants through understanding how to continue to develop continuity pla...
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Client FirstOntario Credit Union Limited
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $90,000
Days Saved 32
Testimonial
Sumit was fantastic in the way he was able to keep the conversation moving and to keep the team level set and staying on track. He was able to keep...
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Client Judiciary of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved 100
Testimonial
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Client MDU Services LTD
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $101K
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Great experience. Workshop facilitator was excellent, and really engaged the various teams in the exercise.
Member Testimonials
Client Hernando County Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $13,600
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Venkat was great, brought up several thinking points to get people engaged and help make the concepts easy to digest.
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Client Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario – Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $55,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Appreciated the flexibility with the schedule to accommodate team's attendance. Appreciated the methodology and approach of establishing RTO and R...
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Client BusPatrol America LLC
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved N/A
Testimonial
The tools from Info-Tech are very detailed and thorough. The best part of it all is that Darin Stahl knows the stuff and is very patient. Even if h...
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Client Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc.
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $17,680
Days Saved 12
Testimonial
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Client Albaugh, LLC
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved 70
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Client Children's Hospital Colorado
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved N/A
Testimonial
It is difficult to estimate the amount of time or financial impact of the advice that we received about extended downtime preparedness. The inform...
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Client Everly Health, Inc.
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $19,720
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Frank was very responsive and gave clear and concise feedback to help us grow our BC program.
Member Testimonials
Client Fernco Inc
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $34,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Best: Good method quickly ramp-up newest Infrastructure Team member on the business activities their relevant people technologies, and facilities d...
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Client Johnson County Library
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $68,500
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
best - great facilitator, extremely knowledgeable, able to understand our environment and technology infrastructure with little description. worst ...
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Client Air Tractor
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved N/A
Testimonial
Dave Kernohan did a great job. He engages the group and knows when to be quiet and listen. As far as the NA responses above, we have a lot more...
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Client AgWest Farm Credit, FLCA
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $21,920
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Best part was having a subject matter expert to lean into while starting the BC program....No worst parts of the time spent with Info-Tech team. Al...
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Client New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved 5
Testimonial
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Client Cross Country Mortgage, Inc.
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $4,110
Days Saved 2
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Client Valley Strong Credit Union
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $68,500
Days Saved 32
Testimonial
Dave was amazing. This workshop did not seem like a class because Dave made it fun and very interesting. We learned a lot. He took the time to exp...
Member Testimonials
Client AgWest Farm Credit, FLCA
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $13,700
Days Saved 5
Testimonial
Member Testimonials
Client Independent Health
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $9,590
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Frank's ability to facilitate the exercise effectively helped our team gain valuable knowledge about contingency strategies that should be implemen...
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Client MyPath, Inc.
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $47,950
Days Saved 14
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