In our company, we believe that an organization, in order to have a sound business continuity management programme, should have the following five ‘keys': -
IT Disaster Recovery Plans – the IT Infrastructure team would invoke these plans to restore IT services to the organization should there be an incident in the data centre
Business Recovery Plans – the business and support departments would activate these plans should there be an incident involving the production building
Crisis Response Plans – these plans are tailored for the senior management/ crisis management teams to respond to any incident impacting the company. These plans would typically include the emergency response procedures
Pandemic Response Plans – these are specific plans drawn up for the company to respond to any infectious disease outbreaks caused by airborne viruses and that could lead on to a pandemic scale
Applications Contingency Plans – with the advent of IT applications to enhance the productivity in the company, it is important that plans are drawn up for the users of each application to refer to circumvent the times when there could be a hitch with the software
The thumb-drive in the logo signifies that these plans can be easily stored and accessed quickly since they would then become highly portable.