Business Continuity Plan

Business Continuity Plans are essential of companies of any size, either formal or informal. These plans should take account of the consequences of disasters, security failures and loss of service.

Contingency plans should be developed and implemented to ensure that processes can be restored within required timescales.

The process of developing these plans should begin by identifying events that may cause disruption to business processes, e.g. equipment failure, flood, fire. A risk assessment to determine the impact of those interruptions (both in terms of damage and recovery period) should then be completed.

A strategy plan should then be developed to determine the overall approach to Business Continutiy. To fail to do so is to invite failure.