Can your organization recover from a disaster within a desired length of time?
What would be the impact to your organization of a prolonged outage of all IT systems?
What would be the impact to your organization of a prolonged outage of all voice communications systems including fax?
Do you have customers, organizations or business units that your services are critical to?
Would you know how to contact them?
Do you depend on web based applications for critical business functions?
Do you maintain up-to-date employee rosters, contact information, inventory lists, software inventories, communication and IT equipment inventories?
Do you have at least one person who devotes at least 50% of their time responsible for business contingency management?
Have you considered alternate sites?
If you have a plan do you keep it up-to-date?
Is your plan written in a common sense clear, concise writing style?
Is it in an easy to maintain format?
Have you included vendor information for key vendors you depend on?
Do you know how to access vital records stored off-site and do you have established procedures for doing this?
Have you provided information regarding insurance, legal and financial support that may be required?
Have you considered addressing the media?
If you do not have a Business Contingency Plan, why not?
Contact Information:
Dan Swearingen
Business Contingency Planning Director 900 SW Jackson , Room 751-S
Topeka , Kansas 66612 -1275
(785) 296-7422 Dan.swearingen@da.state.ks.us
Cheryl Shaughnessy
Business Contingency Planner
900 SW Jackson , Room 751-S
Topeka , Kansas 66612 -1275
(785) 296-1923 Cheryl.shaughnessy@da.state.ks.us
