Business continuity planning¶

Business continuity is the intended outcome of proper execution of both business continuity planning and disaster recovery.

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Domain-specific #: 8298
Domain group: Professional & Organizational Practice
Origin domain: Organizational & Management Science
Subdomains: Organizational Resilience, Risk Management → Organizational & Management Science

Core Idea¶

Business continuity planning is treated here as the recurring organizational resilience identity summarized by this source-grounded definition: Business continuity is the intended outcome of proper execution of both business continuity planning and disaster recovery. Business continuity may be defined as "the capability of an organization to continue the delivery of products or services at pre-defined acceptable levels following a disruptive incident", and business continuity planning (or business continuity and resiliency planning) is the process of creating systems of prevention and recovery to deal with potential threats to a company.

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The Keep-Going Plan

Business continuity planning is when a store or company makes a plan ahead of time for bad surprises, like a storm or a broken computer. The plan tries to stop problems from happening and says how to keep working, at least well enough, if something does go wrong. Then customers can still get what they need.

Planning to Keep Working Through Trouble

Business continuity planning is how a company gets ready for things that could disrupt it, like fires, floods, power cuts or computer failures. It means setting up ways to prevent problems and ways to recover from them. The goal is for the company to keep delivering its products or services at a level it decided ahead of time is acceptable, even during and after a disaster. It works alongside disaster recovery, which is about fixing and restoring things after something breaks. Together, done right, they give the company business continuity.

Prevention-and-Recovery Continuity Planning

Business continuity is an organization's ability to keep delivering its products or services at pre-defined acceptable levels after a disruptive incident. Business continuity planning (sometimes called business continuity and resiliency planning) is the process of creating systems of prevention and recovery to deal with potential threats. Beyond prevention, it aims to keep operations running before and during disaster recovery, the effort to restore systems after a disruption. Business continuity is the intended outcome of doing both business continuity planning and disaster recovery properly, so the two are related but not the same. It takes a top-down approach: leaders identify the minimum the organization needs to stay viable. Various standards bodies have published business continuity standards to help organize the ongoing planning work.

Business continuity is defined as an organization's capability to continue delivering products or services at pre-defined acceptable levels following a disruptive incident. Business continuity planning (BCP), also called business continuity and resiliency planning, is the process of creating systems of prevention and recovery for potential threats to the organization. Its scope includes prevention and also enabling ongoing operations before and during the execution of disaster recovery. The relationship among the terms is structural: business continuity is the intended outcome, and it depends on proper execution of both BCP and disaster recovery, so neither alone is equivalent to continuity. BCP requires a top-down approach that identifies the organization's minimum requirements for remaining viable as an entity. It connects to organizational resilience, the ability to withstand changes in the environment and still function. Multiple standards bodies publish business continuity standards that serve as checklists for the ongoing planning tasks.

Scope of Application¶

Tiers of preparedness. There is little to no data loss in such solutions; however, the presence of this functionality is entirely dependent on the application in use.
Tiers of preparedness. They are used by businesses with little or no tolerance for data loss and who need to restore data to applications rapidly.
Resilience. A 2005 analysis of how disruptions can adversely affect the operations of corporations and how investments in resilience can give a competitive advantage over entities not prepared for various contingencies extended.
Continuity. Plans and procedures are used in business continuity planning to ensure that the critical organizational operations required to keep an organization running continue to operate during events when key dependencies of.
Impact scenarios. A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a process used to identify and evaluate the effects of disruptions on an organization's operations, and to determine recovery priorities and strategies appropriate to the.

Clarity¶

A clear use of Business continuity planning names the carrier, the operative relation, and the conditions under which the source treats the identity as present. The minimal definition is Business continuity is the intended outcome of proper execution of both business continuity planning and disaster recovery.

Manages Complexity¶

Business continuity planning compresses multiple organizational resilience details into a stable diagnostic relation. The source shows both the central mechanism—this allows a Tier 7 solution to ensure consistency of data above that of which is granted by Tier 6 solutions.—and the practical consequence—the crisis communication theory is based on the reputation of the company, but the resilience theory is based on the process of recovery of the.

Abstract Reasoning¶

Type the carrier. Identify the organizational resilience entities to which the claim applies.
State the relation. Use the source-grounded identity: Business continuity is the intended outcome of proper execution of both business continuity planning and disaster recovery.
Check operation and conditions. In the U.S., government entities refer to the process as continuity of operations planning (COOP).
Demand recognition evidence.

Knowledge Transfer¶

Within the home domain. Knowledge about Business continuity planning transfers literally when a new case preserves the same carrier type, relation, and recognition test. There is little to no data loss in such solutions; however, the presence of this functionality is entirely dependent on the application in use. They are used by businesses with little or no tolerance for data loss and who need to restore data to applications rapidly. Beyond the home domain. No canonical parent is asserted for Business continuity planning.

Relationships to Other Abstractions¶

Current abstraction Business continuity planning Domain-specific

Parents (1) — more general patterns this builds on

Business continuity planning is a kind of Management Practice Domain-specific

Business continuity planning satisfies the defining boundary of Management Practice: A management practice is a recurrent, learnable, and accountable pattern of organizational conduct through which actors plan, prioritize, coordinate, monitor, maintain, or adapt resources and work toward declared operational objectives.

Hierarchy path (1) — routes to 1 parentless root

Business continuity planning → Management Practice

Neighborhood in Abstraction Space¶

Business continuity planning sits in a moderately populated region (49^th percentile for distinctiveness): it has near-neighbors but no dense thicket of look-alikes.

Family — Unclustered & Miscellaneous (2551 abstractions)

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