Business Continuity Planning

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There’s no such thing as a minor disruption. Even a small event that interrupts the workflow can be disastrous to your business.

Being prepared is the key to successful business continuity planning. This includes building a cross-functional team to create an action plan, smoothly implementing your plan during a crisis, and auditing your successes and best practices afterward to better prepare for the next disaster. Business continuity planning is key to increasing your company’s uptime during and after a disaster.

Business continuity planning includes 10 critical steps:

1. Assessing your risk – both internally and externally.
2. Assessing your critical business functions.
3. Preparing your supply chain.
4. Creating an emergency management plan.
5. Backing up your data.
6. Creating a crisis communication plan.
7. Assembling an emergency kit.
8. Reviewing your insurance coverage.
9. Planning for an alternate location.
10. Testing your plan.

Companies lose, on average, $84,000 for just one hour of down time. Business continuity planning substantially reduces repair and recovery costs. But even more importantly, the longer your company is down, the higher your risk of customer attrition.

As Christine Forbes, Vice President/Technology & Training Manager of The Daniel and Henry Co. insurance firm says, “If you don’t have a disaster plan in place, you’re not going to be in business. If your clients can’t come to you to help them, they’ll go to somebody who can, and then you’re out of business.”

To find out more about how business continuity planning can get and keep your business up and running during and immediately following any disaster visit http://www2.agilityrecovery.com/small-business.