What If?

This section is aimed to help you to start thinking about the areas you need concentrate your BCP (Business Continuity Planning). Every business is different and has different areas that can affect them, It mainly depends on your location and sector how your Business Continuity Plan should be written. Here are a few pointers to help you and we recommend you can take the Free 10 Minute Business Continuity Assessment to see far you have reached with your current plan or to highlight any areas you may need to concentrate on in a new plan:

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How many of these points do your have implemented at the moment?

Do you have a tested Business Continuity Plan?
Do you have a fast and fool-proof telephone switching?
Do you have simple and flexible IT logistics reporting?
Can you generate reports quickly for the emergency services?
Is your data backup system 'Free From Human Error'?
Can you cope with losing 'Live Hard-Copy Documents'?
Do your insurers offer you 'Premium Discounts' for a sound Business Continuity Plan?
Have you considered BCP cost reductions?

All these points need to be covered for you to have a 'Complete' Business Continuity Plan. If there are gaps it could cost you £1000's and even worse, your whole business in the event of a disaster. Read on to see the solutions.

During a Disaster, Who within your business does what & how?

Who will answer your phones?
Where will the mail be delivered?
How will you access customers data?
How will you collect from debtors?
What will the disruption do to sales?
How will you contact staff?
How will you communicate with emergency services?
How will you bounce-back?
How will staff know what to do?
Who will the stakeholders hold responsible?

A Business Continuity Plan is not just about Backup, its about People and 'Bouncability'. You must plan effectively to survive though a disaster.

How many scenarios can you think of that you should cover to stop your company coming to it's knees in case of disaster?

Death/Key personnel interruption	Fire
Shareholder manipulation	Flood
Business Interruption	Wind
Supplier interruption	Terrorist Threat
Financial Markets	Theft
Lack of insurance	Minor incident
Local incident - eg. 7/7 - Buncefield	Major incident
Structural damage	Infection/Pandemic
Critical data loss	Power failure
Fraud	Pandemic
Sabotage	Hackers
Loss of Telecom's	Transportation Failure

How do you rank their probability with you? Do you have a plan in place if one of these happened?

Fact: Companies are now refusing to do business with suppliers, manufacturers, service industries Etc.. If you do not have a Business Continuity Plan in place.. Well, it makes sense, doesn't it? Act Today before its to late! Protect your assets.

Take the Free 10 Minute Business Continuity Assessment

See how far you have reached with your current plan or to highlight any areas you may need to concentrate on in a new plan.

Download the BCP Assessment as a PDF.

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