ABSTRACT
Traditional approaches to IT-centric disaster planning emphasized the need to recover the organization’s
technological and communications platforms. Today, many organizations have shifted away from
focusing strictly on technology recovery and more toward continuity of prioritized business processes
and the development of specific business process recovery plans. In addition, continuity planners are also
beginning to articulate the value of a fully functioning and ongoing continuity planning (CP) business
process to the enterprise, and not just settling for BCP as usual. In fact, many organizations are expanding
the CP business process beyond traditional boundaries to combine and support a larger organizational
component, i.e., enterprise risk management (ERM) functionality.
