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"Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Protect Your Investment"
In order to ensure that a comprehensive plan and respective procedures are created,
a process approach to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are always followed.
The methodology for continuity management has been developed through significant
research and analysis as well as the examination of industry best practices.
Business Continuity Management is a holistic management process that identifies
potential impacts that threaten an organization and provides a framework for building
resilience and the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests
of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value creating activities.
Business Continuity Management aims to improve an organization’s resilience. By
identifying, in advance, the potential impacts of a wide variety of sudden disruptions
to the organization’s ability to succeed it is able to prioritize the efforts of
various other specialists aiming to achieve resilience in their areas of expertise
such as security and IT.
While concerned with all scales of resilience, BCM is particularly concerned with
developing organization-wide resilience allowing an organization to survive the
loss of part or all of its operational capability. It should also look at surviving
significant losses of resources such as staff or equipment.
Because an organization’s BCM resilience depends on its management and operational
staff as well as technology and geographical diversity, this resilience must be
developed throughout the organization from senior management to shop-floor and across
all sites and the supply chain.
The driver for this organizational resilience is the responsibility of the senior
management and for the long-term interests of the staff, customers and all those
who depend on the organization in some way. While it may be possible to calculate
the financial losses of disruption the most significant impact is usually in damaged
reputation or loss of trust that results from a mismanaged incident. Conversely
a well-managed incident can enhance the reputation of the organization and its management
team.
At Capital Network Solutions, Inc. we take Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
seriously and have created processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive
events.
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