Five Steps to Effective Business Continuity
- Understand your business
- What parts of the business are critical and what priority would you allocate to restoring functions if they fail?
- Risk Assessment
- What risks does your business face (internal and external)?
- Consider these risks in your business risk assessment. What can you put in place to reduce the likelihood of the risks and/or the effects of them?
- Consider the resource needs of each of your business functions
- People.
- Premises.
- Equipment.
- Information.
- Communications.
- External suppliers / contractors.
- Document information in a user-friendly format about your businesses’ critical functions and the resources required including alternatives / backups for each. This will assist you during an emergency.
- Train and test your staff in activating the continuity plan and the roles and procedures within it.
Where can you get further information?
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