Business Continuity

 

How Prepared Is Your Organisation?

Many incidents can seriously hinder the delivery of services essential to your organisation’s survival. 

Fires	Floods	Gas Leaks
Utility Disruption	Accidents	Sudden Death
Air-borne Diseases	Product Failure	Product Recalls
Bribery	Fraud	Sabotage
Network Failures	Cyber Attack	Acts of Terrorism

If your organisation has a sound Business Continuity Plan (BCP), it can continue to provide mission-critical services, no matter what happens. 

Loss of key personnel, even to long term absence through illness, can highlight the need to record and document the day-to-day working procedures of each staff member.

PlanDo will guide you through the various stages of planning and implementation from analysis (Risk Assessment) through to solution while creating a BCP Manual on the way. 

A BCP Manual for a small organisation may be simply a printed manual. Stored safely away from the primary work location critical data, contact information and materials necessary for organisational survival will need to be located quickly if primary sources are destroyed or corrupted.  

At its most complex, a BCP Manual may outline pre-arranged details of a secondary back-up work base. Here all technical and regulatory reporting requirements, work recovery measures, access to physical records and the means to establish a new supply chain should be prepared and held in readiness.

Where does BCP fit in an organisation’s Risk Management structure?

BCP sits alongside Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery Planning and is a crucial part of an organisation's overall Risk Management strategy. 

While Business Continuity Planning focuses on sustaining the delivery of essential services, the focus of Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management is on rebuilding or alleviating the effects of an accident, disaster, emergency or catastrophe.

When advising on Business Continuity Planning, PlanDo will also take into account Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management .