Business continuity plan needs the right leader, metrics to succeed


Written by Phil on June 24, 2009 in Business Continuity.

Successfully resuming business operations after a significant business interruption or disaster requires a business continuity plan developed by an influential business executive, experts say. This contrasts with the reality at many organizations, where the IT executive who successfully developed the disaster recovery plan and/or the business continuity plan for IT is tapped for the broader initiative.

It is this leadership as much as the plan determining how much data an organization can afford to lose and for how long — known respectively as the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) — that dictates how well and how fast an organization recovers.

See Business continuity plan needs the right leader, metrics to succeed, by Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer, SearchCIO.com.

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