BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING

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Business Continuity Planning

• What is it?
• Why do we do it?
• How do we do it?

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Business Continuity Planning

• We already engage in several types of planning .
  . . Must we do more?
• These are all good planning efforts . . . they
  help us make the college a better place and help
  us achieve our mission.
• But what about the not-so-good things that could
  happen to us?

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Business Continuity Planning

• We already have an emergency response plan.
• This is wise, but probably not enough.
• It will carry us through the initial phase of an
  incident . . . through the evacuation of our
  students and the acquisition of outside
  assistance as appropriate.
• But then what?

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Business Continuity Planning

• Media news is full of disastrous events wreaking
  havoc within our country and overseas.
• We havent heard so much about the impact these
  events have had on the daily operation of
  affected colleges just like us.
• But just think about that for a minute . . .

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Business Continuity Planning

• What if something bad happened right here?
• Would you be ready to continue to do the things
  that you need to do to accomplish the critical
  functions and services of your individual
  division?
• How?

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Business Continuity Planning

• These thoughts are not meant to frighten.
• We may not be able to stop a tornado or a fire,
  but we can surely create a plan of action that
  can mitigate the impact of the devastation on our
  ability to carry out our mission.
• This is business continuity planning.

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Business Continuity Planning

• It is simply a process that we can use to ensure
  that we can continue to offer our critical
  functions and services to students, faculty and
  staff in spite of disruptive events that affect
  our normal college operations.

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Why Do We Do It?

• Increased recognition of the impact that a
  serious incident could have on the college
• Need to establish a formal process to be followed
  when a disaster occurs
• Increased dependency on computerized information
  systems and increased likelihood of IT security
  problems make us more vulnerable
• Obligation to protect and provide for our
  students, faculty and staff in the event of a
  major interruption of college operations

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How Do We Do It?

• Planning teams identify critical functions and/or
  services and the impact their loss would have on
  the college
• Identify assets that enable those critical
  functions and/or services (personnel, facilities,
  equipment, communications, etc.)
• Assess and prioritize major risks to those
  assets, and thereby our critical functions and/or
  services

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How Do We Do It?

• Identify actions that could lessen the risks to
  our assets or mitigate the impact of their loss
• Create a team planning document for all critical
  functions and/or services, including the required
  facilities and resources

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Successful Planning . . .

• Is useful it is not busy-work for you
• Follows a logical process and is simple
• Enables the college to survive the effects of a
  disaster to be resilient
• Produces a set of specialized team plans which
  are compiled into an overall college Business
  Continuity Plan. Each individual plan includes
  only the information necessary for that team to
  accomplish its critical functions and/or services.