Declaration
1. Declaration is an explicit and formal announcement that the business continuity or crisis management plan is activated with the permission of Executive Management.
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(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute) |
2. A formal announcement by pre-authorized personnel that a disaster or severe outage is predicted or has occurred and that triggers pre-arranged mitigating actions (e.g. a move to an alternate site.)
(Source: Disaster Recovery Institute International / Disaster Recovery Journal - DRII/DRJ)