Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 998 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:
- Does your organization ensure that business impact assessment, business continuity and Disaster Recovery plans are produced for all mission critical information, applications, systems and networks?
- Do you provide business continuity, workload mobility, and Disaster Recovery for your unique mix of applications, with lower infrastructure costs and less complexity for your operations teams?
- Are business objectives and strategy clearly defined to help determine which activities are critical for the managing the prosperity and continuity risk strategy?
- When disaster strikes and your plan becomes operational, how well will your workforce cope with the chaos and confusion as you move from the event into recovery?
- Does your organizations Business Continuity Plan require each department or function to maintain written Business Continuity and/or Disaster Recovery plans?
- Has management given formal consideration to the potential for an IT related disaster, the relevant risks, and the implications for the business operations?
- What changes if anything regarding business continuity / Disaster Recovery processes or plans if the system is unavailable or data has been lost/corrupted?
- Does the solution provide for business continuity, resilience and Disaster Recovery implementation scenarios â failover, replication, load balancing, etc?
- Do you have an IT Business Continuity strategy so that your systems can continue to run in the event of a disaster until services are fully restored?
- What business continuity and data recovery plans are in place to ensure that service can be maintained in the case of a disaster or an emergency?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Procurement Management Plan: Is there any form of automated support for Issues Management?
- Schedule Management Plan: Do Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project managers participating in the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project know the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery projects true status first hand?
- Schedule Management Plan: Are target dates established for each milestone deliverable?
- Risk Management Plan: Methodology: how will risk management be performed on this Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: Pay attention to the quality of the plans: is the content complete, or does it seem to be lacking detail?
- Quality Audit: Is there any content that may be legally actionable?
- Activity Cost Estimates: Based on your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project communication management plan, what worked well?
- Procurement Audit: Were all admitted tenderers invited to submit a tender for each specific contract?
- Project Scope Statement: Have the reports to be produced, distributed, and filed been defined?
- Cost Baseline: Pcs for your new business. what would the life cycle costs be?
Step-by-step and complete Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project with this in-depth Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery investments work better.
This Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
