Define: "BCP (Business Continuity Plan)" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Save a copy to your desktop so you look busy while waiting for the actual hardware replacements to ship."
A strategic blueprint designed to maintain essential business functions during and after a critical disruption.
What does "BCP (Business Continuity Plan)" actually mean?
"Fifty pages of compliance boilerplate that executives cling to while the engineers actually fix the BGP routing loop."
"As part of our annual compliance everyone must review the updated BCP."
"The auditor was very impressed with our BCP, which is hilarious because half our staff doesn't even know where the physical backups are stored."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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