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Business Continuity Planning

Critical services or products are those that must be delivered to ensure survival, avoid causing injury, and meet legal or other obligations of an organization. Business Continuity Planning is a proactive planning process that ensures critical services or products are delivered during a disruption.

A Business Continuity Plan includes:

• Plans, measures and arrangements to ensure the continuous delivery of critical services and products, which permits the organization to recover its facility, data and assets.

• Identification of necessary resources to support business continuity, including personnel, information, equipment, financial allocations, legal counsel, infrastructure protection and accommodations.

Having a BCP enhances an organization's image with employees, shareholders and customers by demonstrating a proactive attitude. Additional benefits include improvement in overall organizational efficiency and identifying the relationship of assets and human and financial resources to critical services and deliverables.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is composed of processes used to create a plan for how the City of Edmonton will resume partially, or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or disruption.

Within Edmonton BCP is part of a larger organizational effort to reduce operational risk, and thus has a number of overlaps with the practice of emergency preparedness and risk management.