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Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
Michael R. Wood is a Business Process Improvement & IT Strategist Independent Consultant. He is creator of the business process-improvement methodology called HELIX and founder of The Natural Intelligence Group, a strategy, process improvement and technology consulting company. He is also a CPA, has served as an Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine's Management MBA program, an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University, and on the boards of numerous professional organizations. Mr. Wood is a sought after presenter of HELIX workshops and seminars in both the U.S. and Europe.
Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery is one of the most neglected areas within small- to medium-sized organizations. The reason for this neglect is primarily due to the cost involved to develop and deploy adequate plans coupled with a lack of knowledge. In most IT shops, readiness for a service disruption event consists mainly of a battery backup system and off-site backup tapes that are rarely tested. Hot sites, resource deployment strategies, crisis management scenarios and plans are just too intimidating for most to pursue.
For those organizations facing regulatory compliance to corporate and IT governance rules, continuity planning and disaster recovery are no longer optional pursuits. So just what is continuity planning and disaster recovery, and how can an organization get started with its planning efforts?
Wikipedia.org defines business continuity planning as follows:
"Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a methodology used to create a plan for how an organization will resume partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or disruption."
With that definition in mind, it is easy to understand why the effort needed to develop a comprehensive plan to respond to virtually any eventuality is intimidating at best. For IT, the challenge is to have actionable plans in place to restore at least minimum service …
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