Business Continuity
What is Business Continuity Planning?
Business continuity planning (BCP) is a management process that
helps manage the risks to the smooth running of an organisation or
the delivery of a service, thereby ensuring that it can continue to
operate in the event of a disruption.
Whether your business turnover is £20K, £200K or £200million,
how sure are you that you could continue business after a major
setback due to fire, flooding, loss of I.T, etc?
What would you do if your main supplier went out of business?
Ask those businesses who have suffered a disaster…. remember the
Buncefield Fire, Carlisle Floods and the Birmingham Tornado.
Within this site you will find information links to sites that
can help you and your business to survive and prosper.
How Safe is Your Business?
Nearly 1 in 5 businesses suffer a major disruption every
year.
Yours could be next. With no recovery plan you have less chance
of survival!
Why it matters
Building-in business continuity and making it part of the way
you run your business helps prepare you to offer `business as
usual’ in the quickest possible time, rather than having to
`firefight’ during an emergency. Therefore it is just as
important that small companies, as well as large corporations,
ensure that in the event of a business continuity incident,
critical services are maintained and employees understand what is
expected of them. This is to ensure that the business survives the
disruption.
Without effective business continuity planning, a natural or
man-made disaster e.g. fire, flood, adverse publicity, loss of
personnel/premises, I.T. failure, theft, bomb threat, power
failure, etc, could lead to one or more of the following:
Complete failure of business, loss of income, loss of
reputation, legal penalties, impact on insurance payments.
Links
Business Continuity Links
Please note all links are external links:
Continuity Central provides
a constantly updated one-stop resource of business continuity news,
jobs and information.
London
Prepared Business Continuity Advice includes a 10 minute self
assessment questionnaire and Business Continuity planning
guides depending upon the number of staff employed (from 10 or
fewer up to 250+).
Business Link Prepare Your Business for Disaster.
THE 10 MINUTE ASSESSMENT
This is a quick assessment for you to see how far you have got
with business continuity planning. The assessment has been split
into sections for ease of reference, ideally you should have all of
these criteria fulfilled. Click on the following 10 Minute Assessment (PDF,
111KB).