Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Operational Continuity Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Operational 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 Operational Continuity specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Operational 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 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Operational Continuity improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:
- 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?
- What kind of plan is in place to ensure the continuity of your operations, and the protection of your human, physical, intangible, and environmental assets, while matters are being sorted out?
- Do you have policies, procedures and technical measures in place to ensure appropriate data/assets access management in adherence to legal, statutory or regulatory compliance requirements?
- What plans are in place for internal communication in the event of operational disruptions, so staff know what has occurred and how the financial organization is responding to disruptions?
- Are you able to provide relevant personnel with correct and accurate information on the present IT infrastructure configurations, including the physical and functional specifications?
- Are there adequate plans and sufficient resources to provide the continued availability of information and processing capability to enable continuity of critical business operations?
- How does management ensure that plans to mitigate the risks, to its critical operations, of changes made to complex, highly integrated systems, are developed for all major projects?
- Have the security aspects of business continuity been considered and are there tested and up to date plans for maintaining and restoring operations and availability of information?
- Are you able to provide relevant personnel with correct and accurate information on the present IT infrastructure configurations, including physical and functional specifications?
- Have process modifications been evaluated to determine whether additional engineered or administrative controls are necessary to maintain continued safe operation of the process?
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 Operational Continuity book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Operational 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 Operational Continuity Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational Continuity projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Operational Continuity Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Operational Continuity project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the Operational Continuity project?
- Variance Analysis: Does the contractor use objective results, design reviews and tests to trace schedule performance?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: Is the delay in one subOperational Continuity project going to affect another?
- Cost Management Plan: Schedule preparation â how will the schedules be prepared during each phase of the Operational Continuity project?
- Procurement Audit: Did the contracting authority offer unrestricted and full electronic access to the contract documents and any supplementary documents (specifying the internet address in the notice)?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Have all team members been part of identifying risks?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: Are staff committed for the duration of the Operational Continuity project?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Is there a formal set of procedures supporting Issues Management?
- Closing Process Group: Is there a clear cause and effect between the activity and the lesson learned?
- Procurement Management Plan: Is there an on-going process in place to monitor Operational Continuity project risks?
Step-by-step and complete Operational Continuity Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Operational Continuity project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational Continuity project with this in-depth Operational Continuity Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational Continuity investments work better.
This Operational 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.
