[Preface: Policy and Procedure Management-A lot Like Dating & “Policy Distribution- Ready to Meet the Parents?” ] The Ultimate Commitment Once you’ve created, reviewed and distributed company policies and procedures you have reached the last phase of the policy life cycle
As part of an on-going series of posts illustrating how SharePoint can help manage the life-cycle of a policy, this post introduces at a high-level the features SharePoint has on offer.To view a list of the required features for a policy management system, please look (and contribute) at " Policy Management Software - Features " and " Benefits of using SharePoint to manage policies and procedures "on List.ly
Policy and Procedure Management-A lot Like Dating Creation-Part I Although the main objectives are always pretty simple, policy and procedure management is a complicated task and often times can be difficult to fully grasp and understand
DocRead for SharePoint is the only policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint and allows compliance professionals to distribute and track their policies and procedures. As part of an on-going series of posts illustrating how SharePoint can help manage the life-cycle of a policy , this post explains how SharePoint's document management features can be used to help manage the creation and revision of a policy or procedure
Or, find out how DocRead for SharePoint can distribute and track your policies and procedures that are stored in SharePoint document libraries
For those considering SharePoint as a platform to manage their organization's policies and procedures a well configured Search service is probably the most important thing that can be done
Over the last 2 years - whilst helping customers benefit from DocRead for SharePoint - we have discussed the management of policies and procedures (within SharePoint) on several occasions
For example, technology by itself is not the answer; to make ERM actually work requires building blocks: policies, retention rules, procedures, training, and audit
[preface: "Policy Management, A lot Like Dating" Creation-Part I] “The Next Step” Like in most healthy and sustainable relationships, the policy and procedure process needs to progress to the “next level
Finally, and I cannot stress this point enough, backup restores need to be tested, as often I have seen backup procedures that were improperly tested and could not be used to restore the system to the exact state it had before an attack. 2
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