“10 simple steps to create your own business continuity plan” is a free series of emails, each containing one step, that contains guidance on how a business can improve the resilience of its business processes and reap the benefits that ensue. The benefits include:
- greater awareness of how your business operates and which activities are critical to its long term success;
- increased peace of mind because everybody knows how to react when something untoward happens: no more “rabbit in the headlights” moments;
- enhanced confidence that you can go for those bigger contracts and preferred supplier arrangements that were previously out of your reach because the customer required you to have a business continuity plan.
The steps include:
- deciding what it is that you are trying to protect;
- finding the activities in your business that are critical to its success;
- prioritising those activities by the impact caused if those activities were disrupted;
- establishing the risks that might cause disruption;
- taking steps to reduce the occurrence of the risk or limit their impact;
- creating plans of what to do when something goes wrong;
- walking through those plans to see that they make sense;
- exercising the plans so that everybody knows what to do;
- keeping the plans up to date as the organisation changes;
- repeating the previous procedures on a regular basis to take account of changes in the business.
The best thing about it is that it’s totally FREE!
