BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Business Continuity Planning, or BCP, means making advance preparations to continue your business activities after an interruption. BCP is sometimes called "disaster recovery planning" or "contingency planning." The BCP process should answer two questions, "What could go wrong?" (called a risk analysis), and "If something went wrong, how would it affect our business?" (called a business impact analysis). Your answers to those questions help determine your recovery strategies, which should be written down and tested every year.