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If you're looking for a cost-effective Business Continuity Plan with help from a Business Continuity Consultant, this could be the most valuable information you'll read.
Why?
Because there are many more ways to get business continuity plans wrong, than there are ways to get it right. And there are more ways to over-spend than 'right-spend' on continuity projects.
With the increasing move towards the Real Time Enterprise and 24 x 7 business hours, and customer loyalty at an all-time low, the importance of a practical and effective business continuity plan has never been greater. A good continuity plan not only protects your business, its a valuable marketing tool for your existing or prospective customers, keeps the auditors off your back, and the compliance team satisfied.
Wouldn't it be great to sleep easy at night, feel in-control, prepared and ready to respond? To be able to meet the needs of all of your stakeholders, knowing that your business is protected 24x7, regardless of the type of incident that might unexpectedly strike? This can be a reality if you have an effective business continuity plan in place.
How can I do this cost-effectively?
When budgets are limited, as they are at the moment, here are six elements of continuity planning that will ensure you're protected in the most cost-effective way:
- Develop a Crisis communications plan to ensure the safety of employees, critical decision making, and project a view to your customers that the situation is under control.
- Get your critical information away from your primary site. Implement secure disk or tape backups, using a reputable provider to transport and store the media
- Implement countermeasures before the incident to minimise potential impacts.
- Prioritise business recovery activities based on the criticality of business processes - perform a Business Impact Assessment to work out what is most important
- Use internal property assets combined with work from home arrangements for office workspace recovery, if using expensive third-party recovery vendors is too costly
- Maintain up to date staff and supplier contact information at all times - the ability to communicate effectively in a disaster is crucial
How do I engage the right Business Continuity Consultant?
If you are considering engaging a business continuity consultant, OpsCentre can help you develop a plan, laid out in plain English; logical, easy to read, understand, implement and maintain. We've helped organisations fast-track solutions across all industries.SME's. Multinationals. Government departments. Providing them with plans that really work and are simple to maintain.
Our Consultants can show you ....
- How to fast-track the analysis of business risks and impacts, to protect your most valuable business assets
- 7 cost-effective strategies to mitigate the effect of major incidents on your business
- The 5 best ways to structure your business continuity plan for ease of use and ongoing maintenance
- 3 proven steps to implement Crisis and Emergency Management, to safeguard and account for your staff and communicate effectively
- The little-known way to embed business continuity plans within your organisation with minimal effort and ensure people actually use them
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