Always in Business

The business environment today is competitive and global. Companies have to be prepared to respond to their customer’s demands and keep the business processes going even in a disaster situation.

Always in Business / Business Continuity Planning, ABCP, offers a methodology to help you design and plan a comprehensive, enterprise-wide business continuity program to protect the life of your business.

Paul Kamikawa is the principle consultant with 28 years experience in the area of Systems Management, Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Planning.

ABCP’s approach to  Planning centers on the basic questions that arise in every problem situation:

Who?, What?, Where?, Why?, How?, When?

• Who?

   

  Who is affected by the disaster?

  Who will we call first, second, third…?

  Who will perform the recovery tasks?

   

• What?

   

  What assets do we need to protect?

  What plan of action do we take?

  What is a disaster to our company, department, system?

  What are our priorities?

   

• Where?

Where are we exposed?

Where do we relocate to if our facilities are lost?

Where do we meet to organize our recovery efforts

• Why?

  Why do we need a recovery plan?

  Why are the recovery priorities as they are?

  Why have we picked this strategy?

  Why does this cost so much?

   

• How?

How do we know we are in a disaster situation?

How will we recover our systems?

How much effort is involved?

How do we justify the expense to implement our strategy?

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Last modified: 05/18/10