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Project Initiation and Management

Establish the need for a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Process, including obtaining management support, and organizing and managing the project to completion within agreed upon time and budget limits.

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Risk Evaluation and Control

Determine the events and environmental surroundings that can adversely affect
the organization and its facilities with disruption as well as disaster, the damage
such events can cause, and the controls needed to prevent or minimize the effects
of potential loss. Provide cost-benefit analysis to justify investment in controls
to mitigate risks.

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Business Impact Analysis

Identify the impacts resulting from disruptions and disaster scenarios that can affect the organization and techniques that can be used to quantify and qualify such impacts. Establish critical functions, their recovery priorities, and interdependencies so that recovery time objective can be set.

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Developing Business Continuity Management Strategies

Determine and guide the selection of alternative business recovery operating strategies for recovery of business and information technologies within the recovery time objective, while maintaining the organization’s critical functions.

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Emergency Response and Operations

Develop and implement procedures for response and stabilizing the situation following an incident or event, including establishing and managing an Emergency Operations Center to be used as a command center during the emergency.

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Developing and Implementing Business Continuity Plans

Design, develop, and implement the Business Continuity Plan that provides recovery within the recovery time objective.

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Awareness and Training Programs

Prepare a program to create corporate awareness and enhance the skills required
to develop, implement, maintain, and execute the Business Continuity Plan.

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Maintaining and Exercising Business Continuity Plans

Pre-plan and coordinate plan exercises, and evaluate and document plan
exercise results.

Develop processes to maintain the currency of continuity capabilities and the BCP document in accordance with the organization’s strategic direction. Verify that the BCP will prove effective by comparison with a suitable standard, and report results in a clear and concise manner.

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Crisis Communications

Develop, coordinate, evaluate, and exercise plans to handle media during
crisis situations.

Develop, coordinate, evaluate, and exercise plans to communicate with and,
as appropriate, provide trauma counselling for employees and their families, key customers, critical suppliers, owners/stockholders, and corporate management
during crisis. Ensure all stakeholders are kept informed on an as-needed basis.

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Coordination with External Agencies

Establish applicable procedures and policies for coordinating response, continuity, and restoration activities with local authorities while ensuring compliance with applicable statutes or regulations.