Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
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Partial or full relocation of business is sometimes necessary. Many businesses in Manhattan relocated, at least temporarily, when the September 11 disaster occurred. Most often, information about potential new locations of business is available, but the decision to relocate has to be made. The following decisions have to be made: 1) Full or partial relocation; 2) Where to relocate; 3) In case of partial relocation, what parts of business are to be relocated; 4) Timing of relocations; 5) What are the new risks, given similar disruptive events; etc. At this point of the business continuity design, we have defined the business disruption incident and the steps to isolate it. We also have defined the steps to follow to assess current business after the business disruption and the steps to protect the rest of the affected business functions and the other business functions that were not disrupted. We also have defined how to start business withdrawal to safety if needed and how to relocate if necessary. That is, we have defined all the business continuity requirements that have to be satisfied before starting the resumption of business operations. The step of business continuity resumption is the core step of the business continuity program. Business Continuity Program This phase of the business continuity management process takes the business continuity requirements defined in the business continuity requirements specified earlier and translates them into structured sequences of deliverable tasks that will be part of the business continuity plan. Most often, a sound simulation of the business continuity management plan has to be conducted and its data analyzed. BCP analysts need to evaluate assets in relation to potential disruptions. We need to have a clear layout showing the distribution and arrangement of organization assets and users and personnel. The use of simulation can provide a great means of studying possible scenarios for potential disruptive events and alternative ways to prevent them and to take corrective and recovery actions if a disruptive incident takes place. Nothing can replace a simulation to obtain a good feel of the situation and to gain a good understanding of the actions needed to restore critical business functions. Most often, simulations may be configured to capture all aspects of the working system while identifying those business processes that contribute the highest to generating business value for the organization. The simulation will provide great information support to the BCP analyst to effectively model the disruptions of business operations, effects of disruptions on business operations and their ability to generate business value, and possible corrective and recovery actions. The model is intended to generate decision support information to support various activities of a business continuity plan: Incident analysis, disrupted business assessment, protecting the infrastructure, isolating incidents, withdrawal to safety, and defining relocations. Business Continuity Plan Up to this point of the business continuity design phase, we have assembled all the business continuity tasks and simulated those using diversified scenarios. Using the findings produced by the simulation completed in the previous step, we are now in a position to revise the business continuity program. After effecting the necessary revisions, we are able to produce the final design for the business continuity program. At this point of the business continuity design phase, we have, on hand, the 63