Present a Disaster Recovery Plan to your Exec Board: Status, risk levels, robustness, and more.
First: Present a summary of your mitigation plans, so that it is clear you have an answer to each potential disaster.
Second: Present a progress report of your plan coverage, showing where you are still exposed, so that it is clear what needs to be solved.
Finally: Present a DRP Robustness summary, so that you can show how strong each of your contingency planning areas are.
Make a plan for each area of your business: Systems, Services, Staff, Suppliers, Sites. For each of these areas, you must make a series of disaster plans for the operational items in that area:
a) list the items you need to cover,
b) make a plan for each – how it will operate in an emergency,
c) allocate responsibilities to run that operation, and
d) test the disaster plan, with the people who are responsible.
You must have a dashboard to summarize your DRP, plus the detail behind the dashboard.
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Use these templates to help with this Best Practice:
Disaster Recovery Plan Template Toolkit Bundle
This Disaster Recovery Plan Template Toolkit gives you a variety of DRP tools: From principal plan, through impact scoring, to boardroom presentations.
See: Disaster Recovery Plan Template Toolkit BundleProject Crisis Management Dashboard and Excel Log – RAIDAR Template
The Project Crisis Management Dashboard & Log Register has tools to manage a project recovery. RAID, plus Actions and Repairs. Recovery is the priority.
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This fantastic template bundle provides you with the tools to develop your own business continuity plan – “BCP”.
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Risk Management Templates
RAG Status Template PowerPoint
The RAG Status Template provides a range of RAG formats so that you can communicate project risk levels – Red, Amber, Green – quickly and easily.
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All of our Project Status Report Template formats in one discount package. Enjoy our professional formats for delivery status, risk status, rollout status, and innovation status. All in easy-to-edit Powerpoint and Excel.
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This Risk Log and Transition Management Template Pack provides professional risk logs, and transition planning tools. Download at more than 70% discount.
See: Risk Log and Transition Management Template Deal (PPT & Excel)Excel Transition Plan Template
The Microsoft Excel Transition Plan Template presents your transition in simple roadmap graphic, so that anyone can understand it rapidly. Starting state, plans, milestones, risk level and target state. Simple.
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