The Dangers Associated With A Template


Written by Phil on May 20, 2009 in Business Continuity.

Continuity-related templates are everywhere. Websites, your colleagues and commercial software are just three sources of templates that can assist your organization in starting or improving its business continuity planning effort.

Unfortunately, some business continuity professionals believe these templates can be used with minimal effort. Just as dangerous, many feel that if they customize a business continuity plan template for their organization and send it out to the business, the program will automatically materialize into something that reflects its unique needs.  Nothing could be farther from the truth!  This mindset leads to “cookie cutter” plans that fail to manage the business risk associated with a disruptive event.  The remainder of this perspective provides a number of key recommendations to consider when developing and communicating templates and then managing the output from the development effort.

See The use of templates in business continuity planning: Brian Zawada explores the pros and cons of template use and provides some helpful tips, by Avaluation Consulting.

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The Comprehensive Business Continuity Program is a complete template program for business on CD-ROM that includes advice for all development steps from the Information Collection Process, through the Business Analysis, to the actual Business Continuity and Crisis Response documentation and finally with assistance for the ongoing exercising and maintenance process.

Rothstein Associates Inc, also offers powerful templates  addressing business continuity, continuity of operations planning (COOP), emergency management, crisis management, and disaster recovery, specially designed for manufacturing and distribution environments, colleges & universities, schools (K-12), data centers, pandemic preparedness, hurricanes & floods, and more.

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