Business Continuity Project: Key Part of IT Strategy ...

Business Continuity Project: Key Part of IT Strategy: Via Continuity Central: Selling business continuity to finance directors

The business impact assessment, an early step in a business continuity project, sets the focus areas and tempo of the implementation project. Nick Sutton, describes the key benefits of a business continuity program and techniques that IT professionals can use to effectively communicate the situation to leaders. This concept of the backlog trap is real and does not take a disaster to be confronted. Outages during peak periods and other events can trigger a backlog of business transactions that need to be caught-up ...

... "The focus that BIA can give to IT strategy and expenditure - through its identification of needs, shortfalls and priorities -makes for an IT infrastructure that can be relied upon to produce accurate data. One theory well-known amongst business continuity specialists is the Backlog Trap. The after-effects of interruptions to normal work flows can result in severe backlogs, built up while attention is focused on dealing with the abnormal situation or during resultant system-downtime. " ...