BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN DESIGN

ANA CAROLINA MESA MARTINEZ

UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO NARIO

ESPECIALIZACION EN AUDITORIA DE SISTEMAS
BOGOT
2017
 Business Continuity Plan Design

Over time it is necessary to wonder what is the future of the business of the
company to have plans in future that contribute to a better capacity of reaction and
to provide solutions to problems that are being presented, for this reason, it is
necessary to obtain good leadership and evaluate the points in which the business
presented by the company can be focused.

Therefore it is necessary to propose a defined plan of action the steps that must be
given to solve the drawbacks that can be presented in the company and to rethink
the businesses that are not giving a profit margin or generate losses.

The first point to be determined is to establish the scenario in which the business
plan will be applied, determining the options present in the field to be developed,
establishing the advantages and disadvantages to determine if implementation is
feasible, these should be studied from structural, human, environmental levels
among others that can increase costs and can make it unviable.

However there are events that can affect the company and cannot be predicted, so
it is important to take action plans to ensure that unfortunate events that may occur
do not generate a high risk to the business that generates great costs and impedes
the normal development of activities, also to determine the most important
processes for the company and that a case of negative eventuality should continue
to develop so that the production of the company is not See seriously affected.

Strategies such as the implement of technologies so that the workers can carry out
their work from another work site or from their houses and the implementation of
methods to keep track of the work done at the different working hours.

Have emergency funds or insurance that help to mitigate the economic losses that
the company has presented against different contingencies that are very difficult to
foresee as the natural disasters can be important to count plans that provide
resources for the continuation of the work carried out by the company and to avoid
so busts economic that can lead to a bankruptcy of the company or the dismissal
of thousands of workers by not being able Solve these drawbacks.

When a contingency occurs it can happen that the main suppliers of your company
are affected and can not meet the others you need, so it is necessary to implement
measures that can fix it as it could be to have reserves of the products that you
need, find others that are close to the place of the company.

Establish agreements with customers to set deadlines for delivery of products

because of structural damage, it may happen that the shipment of the products is
seen delayed due to the difficulty in the transport of these so it must be traced new
routes of transport, to look for other means of transport that guarantees the arrival
of the products to the customers.

It is also important that the documentation pertaining to the company is not only in
a physical state, so that there are various means of storage that can guarantee that
the information, media such as hard disks, CDs, USB storage, server security
copies can be very important at the time of any inconvenience and physical
documents cannot be accessed , so when it comes to restoring the work by means
of some of the aforementioned storage media it is possible to access this without
any difficulty and not having to start again to gather the lost information by not
having any backup.

But apart from these action plans, projects can be developed to minimize the
damage that may occur, although these can be considered as a cost to the
company should not be taken so, on the contrary it should be considered as an
investment because the implementation of this can mitigate the economic costs
that can have the company and reduce the human losses that can be presented ,
so it should be analyzed which are the projects that most benefit the company and
the factors that must be taken into account for the correct execution, hiring
professionals who can advise adequately and do not generate losses when facing
an emergency.

Therefore each of the action plans that are studied must be analyzed correctly
because the future of the company will depend only as it faces (a) disasters that
may arise and continue to operate and not by not taking measures against these
difficulties the enterprise is highly affected and must be liquidated , so having an
action plan guarantees an excellent future for the company.