Business Continuity Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Business Continuity 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 995 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 improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. Who else in the wider organization would benefit from being included in the distribution of the plan, especially your BCP feeds into a wider continuity plan?
   
   

2. Does your plan include how you will ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and/or information systems – is maintained?
   
   

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

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

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

6. What will you do if internet connection, phone lines, and telecommunications systems are damaged or completely destroyed during a disaster?
   
   

7. Have a plan in place already and need help making the business case for flexible Business Continuity software that scales with crisis?
   
   

8. Has an internal system been significantly modified to change the basic functions, data flow requirements or accounting requirements?
   
   

9. Does a fictitious organization, legal concerns for any reason, because you continue more of revenue, your employee might go?
   
   

10. Have any of your risk, compliance and Business Continuity Management systems projects been terminated prior to completion?
    
    


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 book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Management Plan: Do you use diagrams and tables to account for complex concepts and increase overall readability?
   
   

2. Schedule Management Plan: Were Business Continuity project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
   
   

3. Cost Management Plan: Has a structured approach been used to break work effort into manageable components (WBS)?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Are receiving reports on file for all claims for equipment, supplies and materials in the paid claims file?
   
   

5. Probability and Impact Matrix: Does the customer have a solid idea of what is required?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Are training needs identified when resources do not have the required skills to complete Business Continuity project activities?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Management Plan: Is the performance of the supplier to be rated and documented?
   
   

8. Requirements Management Plan: How will you communicate scheduled tasks to other team members?
   
   

9. Issue Log: Are the Business Continuity project issues uniquely identified, including to which product they refer?
   
   

10. Procurement Management Plan: Are the quality tools and methods identified in the Quality Plan appropriate to the Business Continuity project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Business Continuity project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Business Continuity 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 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 investments work better.

This Business Continuity 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.