Burton Asset Management, Inc

A successful Emergency Management, Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery Program requires a solid command of the basics. Enterprises large and small, new
to the Emergency Management and BC/DR space, or very mature, have to address the basic components in any Emergency Management or BC/DR effort. No matter how complex the problem or how easy the challenge, any Emergency Management or BC/DR effort happens in the context of this best practices framework.

A complete Emergency Management or BC/DR Program must cover five basic steps:

• 1. Risk Assessment
• 1. Business Impact Analysis (BAVA)
• 1. Technology Strategies and Design
• 1. Continuity and Recovery Planning
• 1. Testing and Governance

These five basic steps are most easily communicated to stakeholders like this:

• 1. What's the Risk?
• 1. What's the Impact to our company's value?
• 1. What Technology Strategy's will we use to recover?
• 1. What's the plan for people and systems recovery?
• 1. How will we test it and who's responsible?

This straight-talk approach to understanding the basics of Emergency Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery readily lends itself to organizations of all sizes, facing all manners of risk, from everyday operational risk to complex geopolitical and human error risk. Delivering the basics is the place to start if you want to get your program off to a great start and ensure success.