TABLE OF CONTENTS Maintaining the plan you've developed may end up being the biggest challenge you face in the entire business continuity and disaster recovery plan process. If you found lack of enthusiasm or outright resistance to the BC/DR process, you may find that support for maintaining the plan simply vanishes. However, there is some good news amidst this gloomy outlook. First, you actually have a plan to maintain. People within the organization have participated in evaluating the business, developing mitigation strategies, and perhaps even testing the plan. The other good news is that, as we've discussed throughout this section of the book, there are many areas in which you can incorporate BC/DR strategies and activities in your standard operating procedures. For example, many of the IT strategies implemented to provide continuous (or very high) availability are strategies that are also BC/DR risk mitigation strategies. We've pointed out that it's extremely helpful to incorporate BC/DR strategies in your operational plans whenever possible to reduce the outright resistance you may face to BC/DR planning.
In this chapter, we'll discuss various considerations for maintaining your BC/DR plan, especially in the face of indifference or resistance. As you can see from Figure 36.1, we're in the last phase of our BC/DR planning project.
Change is constant in organizations change in operations, change in technology, change in personnel, change in regulations the list goes on. You might be wondering how you can possibly...
