Recovery priorities: when every department is critical, what should you recover first?
How to compare impacts, dependencies and minimum capacity to decide what to resume first in business continuity.
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In business continuity, recovery priorities are defined by comparing when the impacts of a disruption to each activity become unacceptable (MTPD) and identifying dependencies between activities. Recover first what is needed to prevent the impacts that become unacceptable earliest, including essential supporting activities. Recovery time objectives (RTOs) must provide for activities to resume at the defined minimum capacity before their respective MTPDs.