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BUILDING AN INTERIM PLAN
Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something
Build it and they will come.
—FIELD OF DREAMS
INTRODUCTION
Building an effective business continuity plan can take a great deal of time and resources. By this point, you have identified the processes critical to your business in the Business Impact Analysis (Chapter 2), identified the risks to these processes in your risk assessment (Chapter 3), and determined your strategy for building a comprehensive plan (Chapter 4). Until the primary disaster plan begins coming together (Chapters 16 to 27), there are 11 steps you can take right now to provide some initial protection. The steps you follow in this chapter will be expanded in great detail in later chapters. Even if your disaster planning ...
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