Business Continuity Planning Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Business Continuity Planning 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 997 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 Planning improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:


1. How does the business continuity plan ensure the continuity of critical IT operations during a change in leadership or key personnel, and what succession planning and knowledge transfer programs are in place?
   
   

2. How will the organization ensure that all policies and procedures are culturally sensitive and accessible to customers with language barriers, and what mechanisms are in place to review and update them?
   
   

3. What plans can be put in place to provide ongoing training and development opportunities for employees during a crisis, and how can these opportunities be leveraged to build new skills and competencies?
   
   

4. What mechanisms can be put in place to facilitate collaboration and coordination among different teams and departments during a crisis, and how can these teams be empowered to work effectively together?
   
   

5. How does the business continuity plan account for potential disruptions caused by changes in government regulations or laws that may affect the organization's operations, supply chain, or customer base?
   
   

6. How does the plan ensure that the organization's business continuity planning and risk management processes are transparent and accountable to stakeholders, including regulators and government agencies?
   
   

7. What are the procedures for managing and responding to cyber attacks or data breaches that could impact supply chain or logistics operations, and how does the plan ensure that these risks are mitigated?
   
   

8. How does the organization ensure that its 5G network infrastructure is designed and implemented to meet business continuity requirements, including redundancy, backup power, and environmental controls?
   
   

9. What are the procedures for communicating with suppliers, vendors, or partners during a crisis, and how does the plan ensure that these stakeholders are aware of the organization's continuity plans?
   
   

10. What are the procedures for managing and responding to financial or economic disruptions, such as currency fluctuations or credit crises, and how does the plan ensure that these risks are mitigated?
    
    


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 Planning book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Directory: Do purchase specifications and configurations match requirements?
   
   

2. Cost Management Plan: Does the schedule include Business Continuity Planning project management time and change request analysis time?
   
   

3. Stakeholder Management Plan: Have the procedures for identifying budget variances been followed?
   
   

4. Assumption and Constraint Log: If it is out of compliance, should the process be amended or should the Plan be amended?
   
   

5. Schedule Management Plan: Is a pmo (Business Continuity Planning project management office) in place and provide oversight to the Business Continuity Planning project?
   
   

6. Team Operating Agreement: Are leadership responsibilities shared among team members (versus a single leader)?
   
   

7. Probability and Impact Assessment: Does the software interface with new or unproven hardware or unproven vendor products?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: What were the most significant issues on this Business Continuity Planning project?
   
   

9. Schedule Management Plan: Are right task and resource calendars used in the IMS?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Matrix: While preparing your risk responses, you identify additional risks. What should you do?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Business Continuity Planning project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Business Continuity Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning project with this in-depth Business Continuity Planning Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Business Continuity Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning investments work better.

This Business Continuity Planning 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.