Business Continuity Management

Document all the tasks and activities undertaken in your business continuity management module with the Stay in Business application. This crucial objective along the road to more resilient systems can prove greatly beneficial to your organization’s commitment towards fortifying its business operations. Ensure consistency while archiving all procedures. Your business continuity managers now have the convenience of utilizing BCM documentation extensively as a potent, auxiliary mechanism that supports maintenance and review processes.

Another advantage of using Stay in Business while implementing your documentation policies for business continuity management is that obtaining process validation in accordance with the current industry standards becomes easier. Your business can now effortlessly honor its commitment to comply with regulatory norms established by governing authorities by creating detailed BCM plans. You can also use the platform to manage your business continuity certifications in line with industry requirements.

The platform can ably address all the documentation requirements of the business continuity certification standards that your company is working towards. This can save a lot of time, effort and expenditure on modifications and reworks during later stages.

Planning Documentation for Business Continuity Management

You can now streamline the documentation for your business continuity plan by segregating the entire process into clearly defined categories such as:

• Effective management of all the undertaken tasks and activities
• Facilitation a granular level of visibility into processes and workflows that makes it easier to audit and review the plan
• Providing business continuity professionals with a ‘go to reference point’ while triggering response procedures during disruptive incidents
• Ensuring seamless transitions during attrition and on-boarding activities for new staff through process driven knowledge transfer and training modules

It must be noted that even an exhaustive repository of BCM documents as a standalone entity is of little value towards engineering a business continuity management capability on its own. But having said that, BCM documentation can still provide organizations an effective auxiliary mechanism that can ably support mitigation, response, recovery and restoration procedures.

You can use the software’s incisive tools to optimize the time, effort and resources that you invest in making your business ecosystem less vulnerable to disruptions. You can also manage your business continuity documents efficiently through periodic updates and reviews.

Procedural Framework

Stay in Business lets you share business continuity management information across different business locations. The software’s platform is a high end solution that you can use to plan all your tasks and activities without going over-budget. Some of the specific highlights of the SIB platform’s BCM planning advantage include:

• Easy to use interface for sharing and updating information
• Implementing process driven performance review systems for BC plans
• Periodic process review
• Version Control
• Distribution Control through access permissions
• Purging documents that are no longer in use

Takeaways and Evaluation

You can now implement a framework for documenting all tasks, activities, processes and workflows that fall within the purview of the business continuity management module.

This framework for documentation can include attributes such as:

• • Documentation policies in line with organization’s resiliency objectives
• • Roles, responsibilities and operational hierarchies for personnel
• • Detailed descriptions of the nature, scope and purpose of different business continuity projects
• • Communication protocols and sequential prioritization for sharing progress and status updates of different projects
• • Material for training, seminars, workshops and discussion forums
• Documented research findings from the business impact analysis (BIA) and continuity requirement analysis (CRA) exercises
• Threat assessment
• Supporting documents that justify the adoption of specific strategies and methodologies
• Procedures for optimizing the access, distribution and use of assets, resources and infrastructure
• Prerequisite conditions that warrant the deployment of different responses
• Guidelines for the simultaneous deployment of different plans in a manner that avoids issues such as

1. unavailability of assets, resources and infrastructure
2. redundant roles, responsibilities, tasks and activities

Detailed mitigation, response, recovery and restoration activities

Guidelines for testing the organization’s resiliency through drills and simulated exercises

Collaterals that are distributed both internally and externally in a bid to create awareness amongst concerned parties

Contractually binding obligations towards customers, investors and stakeholders

Templates for checklists, questionnaires, reports, issue and bug fixes

Stay in Business is an effective tool that can meet all your documentation challenges while building a resilient and fortified business continuity model that can smoothly transition high intensity disruptions. You can clearly define the nature, scope and purpose of archiving business continuity management processes and procedures in tangible terms while outlining a documentation policy. Now your enterprise can ensure that all archival activities are in line with the strategic direction of the organization’s business continuity management module.

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