But developing the plan itself is both the most important and hardest part of the process. Most organizations today are hard-pressed to go it alone. It's a full-time job all by itself. And when it's competing with a host of other responsibilities, it can easily overwhelm your internal resources. Typically, planning requires the skills and talents of your best technical staff, the very people who are already busy stretching their time to cover some of your more high-profile projects.
Effective plans require continual maintenance.
It's not a job that gets done once and is forgotten. Someone has to stick with the planning process to meet the changing technical and business needs of your organizaiton. Once a plan is in place managing its various elements during an actual disaster is essential. Real-life disaster recovery experience is hard to come by in most organizations. That's where we come in.