Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning is about recognising the threats to the business that are constantly present in the nature and conduct of your business. Disaster Recovery is how you manage and attempt to recover from events that causes sudden and major disruption to your business.

Some types of disaster can be sudden and impossible to predict - fire, explosion, flooding, for example. However, effective Business Continuity Planning can reduce or eliminate the risk of these and other types of event becoming disasters.

The key to successful Business Continuity Planning is Risk Analysis and Risk Reduction.

Risk Analysis is a process of identifying potential risks, assessing their likely impact on the business and defining the maximum downtimes for different circumstances that can be sustained by the business.

Risk Reduction is a process of taking action to eliminate, reduce and mitigate risks, and recognising the residual risk that has to be carried by the Company (for which the Disaster Recovery Plan is required). Typical areas of risk include the loss of key employees, failure of supply from key suppliers, breakdown of critical processes, loss of key markets, compliance failures, competitive threats and technological obsolescence.

Our business continuity consultants can help you to develop an effective and integrated set of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans. Contact us for help in developing your business continuity plans.