Business Continuity Planning 101
The 7 Phases of the BCP Process / Phase 4 - Strategy Development Strategy Development Phase
Purpose: Activities:

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.

Create a recovery strategy for various disaster scenarios.

  1. Evaluate Recovery Alternatives
    • Review existing recovery strategies
      (if any)
    • Review current data protection schemes versus desired RPO
    • Essential Records Program integration
    • Research available recovery options to meet RTOs
    • Assess risk for each recovery option
  2. Propose viable recovery strategies to meet RTOs.
  3. Evaluate Recovery Alternatives
    1. Business Operations
      • People, Resources,  paper records
      • Facilities and infrastructure
    2. Technology
      • Processing and data
      • Tele-Communications: voice and data
    3. Other
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