Business Continuity in Communications for Dummies Avaya Limited Edition

Business continuity is a collection of disciplines that are closely related and often confused with each other. Disaster management, disaster recovery, crisis management, business recovery, emergency planning, and business continuity are all frequently spoken of in the same breath like siblings or close cousins. The topic of business continuity has, by default, come to represent this collection of disciplines. We will call this collection BCDR, which literally stands for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, but which represents the full spectrum. Communications is often the critical focus of many types of management problems and concerns. Business continuity in communications is essential as it represents that set of solutions supporting the assurance that communications will remain functional and effective when business continuity is the problem at hand. If communications is such a critical focus point, then we must understand that it is indeed the area where we can experience the most problems and waste the most effort and money. When dealing with unsolved communication problems, we come away more badly beaten than when dealing with any other problems.