Loyola University Maryland
Office of the CIO

8. Business Continuity Strategy

Strategic Roadmap

  1. Organizational Refocusing
  2. Teaching and Learning Strategy
  3. Infrastructure Assessment and Refresh
  4. Training Assessment and Strategy
  5. IT Governance, Policy and Portfolio Management
  6. Business Process Management
  7. Integrated Administrative Information Strategy
  8. Business Continuity Strategy
  9. Emerging Technologies Forum
  10. Cloud Computing Capitalization
  11. Collaboration Tool Enhancements
  12. Social Networking Integration

Risk Qualifications

  • RED - High
  • YELLOW - Moderate
  • GREEN - Low

Operational ExcellenceOperational Excellence

Define goals and approaches to make IT resources consistently available to the campus to sustain operations and business continuity

Description:

  • There are dependencies on the access and availability of digital technologies
  • Loyola must build an IT Business Continuity Strategy to make IT resources consistently available to the campus to sustain operations and business continuity with the ultimate outage, a natural or man-made disaster.

Value and organizational Implications:

  • This initiative adds substantial value in maintaining the highest operational levels by protecting the IT assets
  • Loyola leadership and users recognize technology is critical to the institution’s strategy and sustaining operations

Risks:
RATING: RED

  • Input from business application owners
  • Sponsorship from Loyola leadership
  • Specific continuity and recovery strategies will be dependent on business needs, availability of funds, availability of resources, and current system capabilities.
StartFinishDuration
6/1/200912/25/200930 weeks
Timeline

Detail:

  • 6 Months and Ongoing operations
  • Requires contractors and procurement
  • Step 1- Business impact analysis (university-wide)
  • Step 2- Review needs and Infrastructure Capabilities
  • Step 3- Current IT Recovery capabilities and Gap Analysis
  • Step 4- Develop IT Continuity and Recovery Strategy