How to build a Disaster Recovery Team

Comprehensive disaster recovery can not be achieved by a single person. Medium-sized businesses require a disaster recovery team to prepare for and oversee any emergency.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Your Disaster Recovery Team should include representatives from:
   - Senior Management
   - IT
   - Communications
   - Human Resources
2. A Disaster Recovery Manager should oversee the recovery team, report to the C-Level Executives and guide the efforts of the whole group.
3. The Disaster Recovery Team should:
   - Research and Design Enterprise wide disaster assessment and recovery plans
   - develop cohesive data recovery and business resumption plans
   - understand the intricacies of your company's supply chain
   - create a plan to best use a mobile office
4. In case of a wide-spread emergency, the disaster recovery team should keep detailed contact nformation to stay in touch with:
   - vendors
   - clients
   - local government and law enforcement
   - FEMA

Tips & Warnings

• Ideally the members of your team should be available and on call at all times, with detailed contact information.
• Every department should have a designated leader or director to guide operations in an emergency situation.