An effective BCP is prepared on the basis of the impact of a disaster on an organization. Every organization will have varying strategies toward disaster recovery plans based on its demographics, organizational structure, type of information systems used etc.

Few steps to define a business continuity checklist are:

• Assemble planning team
• Drawing up the BCP
• Conduct BIA
• Educate and train users
• Isolate sensitive information
• Backup critical data
• Protect hard copy data
• Designate a recovery site
• Set up a communications program
• Test, measure and update