The Need:
For an enterprise continuity management program to succeed, you must champion the ongoing analysis of all BCP/DR data and construct a cohesive, centralized repository for all plan data and recovery resource requirements. The executive management team can leverage this repository for a “big picture” view of the organization’s BCP/DR structure.

Constructing such a knowledge base from scratch or attempting to piece it together from numerous non-standardized sources would put your organization into a never-ending application development and data mining process. Then you’d need to tackle the issue of security over BCP/DR data and deployment of the technology solution to the end user community.

The Solution:
LDRPS 10 is so flexible and powerful that it can be customized to deploy an ECM program. With its easy-to-use end user interface and non-intrusive client software, LDRPS 10 has become the standard for the world’s leading e-enabled organizations!

The Process:
Set standards across the organization by structuring the plan hierarchy in LDRPS to map the enterprise-wide view. In the infancy of your program, all Priority-1 processes and sub-processes should be accurately mapped with their associated critical dependencies. All other processes can be mapped over time.

Set-up the structure to regularly and accurately report on the status of contingency planning and risk mitigation for every business unit to include the identification of:

• major single points of failure for Priority-1 processes and recovery strategies
• serious resource and expertise limitations associated with these Priority-1 processes and recovery strategies

Structure the LDRPS data repository (dictionaries) to capture, record and report on Business Impact Analysis results, Disaster Recovery Strategies, Single Point of Failures and Disaster Recovery Vendor contracts. Tracking these core recovery resource areas will allow the organization to:

• identify money being spent across the organization for alternate site agreements and where additional capacity exists;
• calculate internal recovery site resources being consumed and where additional capacity exists;
• establish dependencies, priorities and criticalities should multiple Priority-1 plans invoke;
• determine where resource needs have been duplicated or requirements overstated.

The Bottom Line:
LDRPS 10 can be adjusted to comply with any organization’s continuity planning methodology. However, the immediate benefit of implementing the ECM model is that the organization’s resources become better aligned to mitigate high-risk areas. In addition, analysis of ECM measurements is consistently performed to focus resources on improving the organization’s BCP program and to leverage its enterprise-wide investments in ECM resources.