Pressures to implement a disaster recovery plan:
- risk of business interruption
- loss of business critical data
- length of time to recover business critical data
- length of time to recover business process
- need to be prepared for future
Best-in-class strategies:
- senior manager accountable for disaster recovery performance
- cross-functional disaster recovery team defines
- staff trained on disaster recovery policies
- disaster recovery scenarios tested regularly
Best-in-class process capabilities:
- formal documentation of disaster recovery plan
- disaster recovery plan updated regularly
Best-in-class organisational capabilities:
- formal review and report on each downtime event
- executive champion goaled to reduce downtime
Best-in-class knowledge management practices:
- messaging to alert disaster recovery team to downtime event
- cost of downtime measure and used in disaster recovery decisions
Best-in-class technology enablers:
- mirroring or failover of critical systems enabled
- replication of critical systems at remote location
Best-in-class performance management:
- formal review and report on each downtime event
- disaster recovery performance tracked and reported against plan
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