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Analyzing Your Business Continuity Plan
Learn how to identify the duration and impact of events that threaten business continuityPreview the first lesson free — get full access to all 5 lessons.
Intermediate Provider : Joseph Rice 5 Lessons · 9m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
A business continuity plan is necessary to survive and thrive after a disruption, but creating one can be challenging. Identifying critical functions and processes can be challenging for large and small organizations. For a large organization, operations are frequently complex, and there can be numerous areas of operations and types of business to evaluate. Small businesses may have fewer resources and rely more on outside suppliers and agencies. Recognizing and accepting the difficulties can make your plan more effective. It’s also essential to assess your plan with surveys and frequent reviews.
In Analyzing Your Business Continuity Plan, we discuss ways to assess and review your plan. We discuss the value of a survey in this analysis. We look at how to know when a plan needs to be reviewed and how to perform the review. Finally, we identify challenges inherent in creating a business continuity plan and ways to overcome each challenge. By the end of this course, you will have the skills to complete and maintain your business continuity plan.
What You'll Learn
- Use surveys to analyze and assess your business continuity plan
- Identify the challenges involved in creating a business continuity plan
- Recognize when your business continuity plan needs to be reviewed
- Perform a review of your business continuity plan
- Apply ways to overcome the challenges of business continuity planning
- Complete and maintain your business continuity plan
Key Takeaways
- A business continuity plan is necessary to survive and thrive after a disruption, but creating one can be challenging.
- Identifying critical functions and processes can be challenging for both large and small organizations, as large organizations often have complex operations and small businesses may have fewer resources and rely more on outside suppliers and agencies.
- Recognizing and accepting the difficulties of planning can make your plan more effective.
- Surveys and frequent reviews are essential for assessing a business continuity plan.
- Identifying the challenges inherent in creating a plan and finding ways to overcome each one strengthens the plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I be able to do after taking this course?
By the end of this course, you will have the skills to complete and maintain your business continuity plan, including using surveys to analyze it, identifying challenges to creating it, and knowing when and how to review it.
What topics does this course cover?
The course covers using a survey to analyze your plan, the challenges of business continuity planning, and reviewing your plan, along with an introduction and a knowledge test.
Who can benefit from this course?
The course addresses business continuity planning for both large organizations, which often have complex operations and numerous areas to evaluate, and small businesses, which may have fewer resources and rely more on outside suppliers and agencies.
Why are surveys and reviews important in business continuity planning?
Assessing your plan with surveys and frequent reviews is essential; the course discusses the value of a survey in this analysis and how to know when a plan needs to be reviewed and how to perform the review.
