Departmental Business Continuity Planning
Welcome to "duContinuity," the University of Denver's business continuity planning tool. This tool is designed to assist you in pre-planning for your department's response to critical incidents involving life safety, reputation, financial, property and operational risks which may impact the day-to-day activities and processes within your department. Our goal is to enable you to recover your operations and continue your department's mission, as well as that of the University as a whole, as quickly as possible.
Your department's Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is part of DU's Critical Incident Management Plan (CIMP) and board approved policy. This plan is the framework for how departments will prepare in advance to manage critical incidents at varying degrees of severity over varying periods of time and all departmental plans should roll up into this institutional plan. The CIMP is managed by the "Core Life Safety Group" and response to critical incidents is conducted through the "Critical Incident Response Team."
Since critical incidents occur in varying degrees of severity, there is no boilerplate response. Still, this highlights the importance of protecting your activities and processes even more through preparation, review, and training for successful response and recovery. This can be accomplished through building your duContinuity plan, while addressing three key items:
1) no access to your office space
2) technology outages for internet and software for up to 4 days
3) planning workaround procedures to your usual/customary procedures for up to 30 days or more.
If you’ve any questions regarding the plan, you may contact the duContinuity team.
Contact Us
For questions or information, please contact either:
Ellen Shew Holland
Director of Risk Management
(303) 871-2327
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Scott D. Wiggans
Director of Institutional Initiatives
(303) 871-3805