When disaster strikes... A guideline to business continuity awareness (Paperback)

Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,0, Nurtingen University (BWL), 38 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Summary The conducted first BCP exercise showed that required parts of an efficient BCP were missing: BCT members did not know where to go, the required hot seats were not in place, the recovery site was not set up completely and mandatory documents were not available. Therefore an analysis about the gaps and findings was performed. The requirements of Business Continuity Plans at SPL are, to enable the organization to: protect employees, protect fixed and financial assets, protect know-how and image and to ensure trouble-free functioning of business processes. For achieving these requirements, a BCP methodology for SPL is used as a frameset, it includes four basic steps: First: understanding the "business of the business," thru Business Impact & Risk Analysis. Second: Analyzing the dependencies of the critical processes and resources and selection of a solution which meets the organizations needs. Third: Design and development of the Business Continuity Plans and defining the Continuity Teams. Fourth: Implementation of the Plans into the organization. The performed GAP-Analysis for SPL showed that focus in an efficient implementation process has to be on the building of awareness of the employees and the management. People of the organization must be enabled to respond to crisis events in an efficient manner. Communication of the BCP policies is a critical part of the implementation process.