Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Business Continuity Management and IT 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 Management and IT Disaster Recovery specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Business Continuity Management and IT 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 990 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 Management and IT Disaster Recovery improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:

  1. Are improvement actions from business continuity tests recorded, remediated by management in a timely way, and actively followed up to ensure the actions are properly implemented?

  2. Does your building management system have the same level of support as your IT systems in terms of security, availability, disaster recovery, and maintenance?

  3. Does your supplier have a robust cyber incident response plan and general disaster recovery plan that is regularly tested, and improvements made where needed?

  4. What is the burden on IT to manage your infrastructure, your backups, your disaster recovery, and your underlying cloud operational support systems?

  5. How aware are staff and management of the information and data security risks that could be introduced while executing the business continuity plan?

  6. How can it teams defend against malware and ransomware attacks and safeguard business continuity without enduring unexpected cost and complexity?

  7. What is the security sectors role in the various stages of disaster risk reduction as assessments, planning and mitigation, relief and recovery?

  8. Is there damage to the entire building or has access to the building been restricted by emergency personnel or building management personnel?

  9. Are there any other finance related challenges that will affect implementation of Risk, Compliance and Business Continuity Management system?

  10. What capacities will be needed to implement recovery and what additional resources and expertise are required to provide additional support?


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 Management and IT Disaster Recovery book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Business Continuity Management and IT 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 Management and IT Disaster Recovery Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Business Continuity Management and IT 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 Management and IT 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 Management and IT Disaster Recovery projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Executing Process Group: Does the Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery project team have enough people to execute the Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery project plan?

  2. Cost Management Plan: Is the assigned Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery project manager a PMP (Certified Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery project manager) and experienced?

  3. Procurement Audit: If an electronic auction or a dynamic purchasing system was used, did the tender documents specify details on access to information, electronic equipment used and connection specifications?

  4. Cost Management Plan: Were stakeholders aware and supportive of the principles and practices of modern software estimation?

  5. Requirements Documentation: Basic work/business process; high-level, what is being touched?

  6. Probability and Impact Assessment: Sensitivity analysis -which risks will have the most impact on the Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery project?

  7. Planning Process Group: Does the program have follow-up mechanisms (to verify the quality of the products, punctuality of delivery, etc.) to measure progress in the achievement of the envisaged results?

  8. Scope Management Plan: Are agendas created for each meeting with meeting objectives, meeting topics, invitee list, and action items from past meetings?

  9. Planning Process Group: What good practices or successful experiences or transferable examples have been identified?

  10. Risk Audit: Do you have a realistic budget and do you present regular financial reports that identify how you are going against that budget?

 
Step-by-step and complete Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Business Continuity Management and IT 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 Management and IT 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 Management and IT 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 Management and IT 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 Management and IT 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 Management and IT Disaster Recovery project with this in-depth Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Business Continuity Management and IT 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 Management and IT 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 Management and IT Disaster Recovery investments work better.

This Business Continuity Management and IT 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.