Where's your business continuity plan?

The most important single document an IT manager can author is a business continuity plan. And it is essential to have this document in place before it's needed. eWeek.com walks you through a number of important steps to make sure plans are in place and can be activated whether there is a fire, flood or terrorist attack.

Among eWeek's pointers:

• Make sure all employees know the company evacuation plan and make sure everyone is out of the facility and safe when it is implemented.
• Once everyone is out of the building and at a meeting point, perform a head count to make sure no one is missing.
• Tell local officials of your employee head count and the status of the building.

Some of these steps may seem too simple for anyone to follow. Yet these very procedures have been tried and tried again with great success. Any plan is better than no plan.

At the end of the day, your data is likely to be backed up in a crisis, but you must make sure your people are safe, too.

For all the tips on business continuity:
- check out this eWeek.com article [1]

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