Principle | Standard BC | Adaptive BC |
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Deliver Continuous Value | Practitioners dictate the work according to sequential methodology and provide documentation at the end of long cycles | Customers direct the work according to needs and culture; practitioners provide frequent, shorter-term, customer-informed deliverables |
Document only for Mnemonics | Practitioners create documents as final and required deliverables | Customers create documents as mnemonics |
Employ Time as a Restriction, not a Target | Practitioners document a single recovery time target (RTO) for every service | Customers identify predetermined and significant time restrictions that will constrain recovery efforts |
Engage at many Levels of the Organization | NA (Practitioners focus buy-in efforts exclusively on executives) |
Practitioners consciously engage many people at many levels of the organization |
Exercise for Improvement, not for Testing | Practitioners conduct exercises as a test of RTO targets and to satisfy audit requirements | Departments participate in exercises to practice and improve recovery capabilities |
Learn the Business | Practitioners collect data about the business | Practitioners strive to understand the culture and operations of individual organizational areas |
Measure and Benchmark | Practitioners count the numbers of documents, exercises, and refresh dates | Practitioners and customers measure recovery capabilities |
Obtain Incremental Direction from Leadership | All executives approve the complete scope of the program before launch | Individual leaders provide iterative direction |
Omit the Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis | Practitioners require completion of RA and BIA documents before planning can begin | NA |
Prepare for Effects, not Causes | Experts focus externally: Identifying and preparing for a host of specific threats | Departments focus internally: Improving recovery capabilities for unavailability of locations, people, and resources |