Business Continuity Planning - Solution Design

Solution Design

The solution design phase identifies the most cost-effective disaster recovery solution that meets two main requirements from the impact analysis stage. For IT purposes, this is commonly expressed as the minimum application and data requirements and the time in which the minimum application and application data must be available.

Outside the IT domain, preservation of hard copy information, such as contracts, skilled staff or restoration of embedded technology in a process plant must be considered. This phase overlaps with disaster recovery planning methodology. The solution phase determines:

• crisis management command structure
• secondary work sites
• telecommunication architecture between primary and secondary work sites
• data replication methodology between primary and secondary work sites
• applications and data required at the secondary work site, and
• physical data requirements at the secondary work site.