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Data Management & Organizational Resilience: Planning

  

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This is the sixth article in a series entitled: Data Management and Organizational Resilience. ASG is offering a series of blogs as well as a white paper that aggregates these blogs into one download, with the intent to make the case for data management and its correlation to the Organizational Resilience function.

What do these plans include?

All Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans need to encompass how employees will communicate, where they will go and how they will keep doing their jobs. The details can vary greatly, depending on the size and scope of a company and the way it does business. For some businesses, issues such as supply chain logistics are most crucial and are the focus on the plan. For others, information technology may play a more pivotal role, and the BC/DR plan may have more of a focus on systems recovery.

But the critical point is that neither element can be ignored, and physical, IT and human resources plans cannot be developed in isolation from each other. Business leaders and IT leaders should work together to determine what kind of plan is necessary and which systems and business units are most crucial to the company. Together, they should decide which people are responsible for declaring a disruptive event and mitigating its effects. Most importantly, the plan should establish a process for locating and communicating with employees after such an event. Here are some of the elements to consider when creating the process:

• Standards and Policies

• Awareness, prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery

• Awareness

• Mitigation

• Preparedness

• Response

• Recovery

The next article in this series will begin to highlight the Implementation and Operation of Data Management and Operational Resilience.

Download the entire white paper on Data Management & Organizational Resilience.