Business Continuity Plan
Business continuity planning is a preparative description of processes and procedures in the workforce that need protection and estimates the risks to the organization. Its purpose is to keep the business running in emergency situations. These are the steps required to be included in the business continuity plan for protection of people and property in case of an emergency:
- The scope and margins of BCP should be identified.
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is created in the result of the scope analysis.
- Once the BCP concept is created, it should be sold to “key senior management and obtain organizational and financial commitment” (Merkow & Breithaupt, 2006, p. 125).
- Obtaining management approval for the BCP, every department would have to be assigned its role in maintaining the plan.
- The final step is the plan implementation.
Solectron Corporation is one of the companies impacted by a disaster that the Strohl Systems Web site deals with. Solectron Corporation is a global leader in electronics manufacturing industry, a network and global supplier. Struggling with coordinating its business information, the company turned to Strohl Systems for guidance in developing a business continuity plan. The LDRPS Web Server implementation made it possible to have a global database necessary to keep up with the continual growth in annual sales. About 200 users were trained in three of the regions; 70,000 employees were assigned a password. It took some time to get used to the system, but after its complete establishment it takes significantly less time to deal with the system.
Global data improvement and common processes achievement throughout all of its worldwide facilities are what the company mostly benefited from the business continuity planning. The web server constituted a big improvement to already existing global DR program by helping achieve standardization worldwide (Strohl Systems, 2008).
