FDR works with various consulting companies and can assist customers in creating a Business Continuity Plan. There could be many reasons. Perhaps your company is driven to reevaluate an existing Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity Plan. Or, you may be assessing recovery issues in a fresh and new light. You may even be considering internalizing your continuity solution. Whatever your reasoning, FDR along with its access to consulting companies provides an invaluable resource in analyzing and prioritizing the complex mission critical processes involved.

FDR follows the 3 step methodology for building any suitable Business Continuity Plan:

• Asses the requirements
  
  
  • This would entail reviewing the customers existing recovery capability and work out a GAP analysis;
  • Conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA);
  • Work out a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for each process. This is the length of time a business process can be disrupted until it becomes unacceptable to the Business;
  • Work out the Recovery Point Objective (RPO), which is the amount of loss data or processing time;

• Development of the Plan
  
  
  • Design the recovery organsiation;
  • Design and implement recovery strategies around the organizations needs;
  • Design and implement plan components;
  • Build a recovery plan and support documents;

• Manage and Test the Plan
  
  
  • Validate the business recovery capability and test the plan for both systems as well as business staff relocation;
  • Modify the plan depending on the exercise;
  • Update recovery plans to ensure any learning's are included in the revised plan;
  • Develop Program sponsors;
  • Implement Program components;
  • Run a change mismanagement exercise and a governance model around it.