Business Continuity
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 £20,000, £200,000 or £200
million, how sure are you that you could continue business after a
major setback due to fire, flooding or loss of I.T?
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 page you will find information and 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.
Useful Business Continuity Links
Continuity Central provides
a constantly updated one-stop resource of business continuity news,
jobs and information.
London
Resilience offer information and
advice on Business Continuity planning for all sizes of
business.
Business Link provides advice on how to `Prepare Your
Business for Disaster'.
The 10 Minute Assessment
The 10 Minute Assessment (PDF,
111KB) will show you how prepared your business is
for major setbacks and how far you have got with your business
continuity planning.
