Building a Business Continuity Plan
| Risk Assessment | Planning & Inventory | Partners | Action | Train & Exercise | After Action Reports |
| Conduct a department risk assessment Include continuity coverage for risks identified and all hazards Mitigate risks where possible |
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Continuity of Operations Plan Service lending departments Mutual aid agreements Preferred providers |
Resume mission essential functions Stay coordinated with staff, students, vendors public Communicate |
Distribute plan Update annually Conduct an annual tabletop exercise |
Chronicle event Review response Identify lessons learned Update plan |
A risk assessment should precede the drafting of a Marquette University Business Continuity Plan. This will allow offices to isolate or mitigate some of their identified risks. A second benefit to this process is an increased awareness of potential threats, which subsequently influences the continuity response.
Checklist for Building a Business Continuity Plan
- Complete a risk assessment
- Review the Marquette University Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
- Complete the Business Continuity Annex
- Promulgation
- Planning assumptions
- Leadership and succession
- Relocation team
- Evacuation, shelter, lockdown
- Call tree
- Communication
- Vital records identification and protection
- Computers, redundancy, software
- Relocation and space requirements
- Equipment inventory
- Mutual aid agreements
- Prioritize mission essential functions
- Implementing mission essential functions
- Continuity staff roster
- Distribute the plan to leaders
- Post department BCP to the university Continuity SharePoint site
- Train, test, exercise
- Update plan each October
