Pirelli considers the needs of its F1 customers. Do you consider the needs of yours? Readers of this blog will recall that I linked Business Continuity Planning with Formula One in a previous post about McClaren and the incident of Jensen Button’s missing wheel. A comment on the Autosport live feed from the pre-season testing…
How can you plan for something that is unpredictable? Read on for some general tips Business Continuity Planning is the process of preparing your business so it can continue serving its customers and generating profits when something has gone wrong. There are any number of events that can cause an incident that has the potential…
It may be an everyday story of country folk, but The Archers can teach us all a good lesson I was driving home this evening (16th January 2012), listening to Radio Four and battling the traffic on the A1. Whilst not being a regular listener to The Archers, I couldn’t help but be interested in…
Make sure everybody knows who is in charge when it all goes pear-shaped It seems that this blog may be read by some quite important people. Yesterday (20/12/2012) in the UK Parliament’s House of Commons, Peter Bone, MP for Wellingborough, asked who would be in charge of the country if the Prime Minister were…
I just received a well-timed email from the excellent people at telephone-answering.biz who answer my ‘phone if I’m not around or busy. The salient paragraph reads: When bad weather is predicted remember that by diverting your lines to us before you leave the office, if you are unable to get in then we can still…
Make sure you start to implement your plans before it goes wrong As we move into the winter here in the UK, we stand a reasonable chance of having a few days, at least, where normal business operation is likely to be difficult, if not impossible, because of snow or ice. The question is: how…
People can be your greatest asset, and your biggest weakness. Make sure you protect against loss of key staff It is often said that people are the greatest asset in any successful business. I’d support that view: there aren’t many businesses that could operate without them. Unfortunately, it is also true that the existence of…
Don’t let the loss of single critical resource cause you to lose money Business Continuity Planning is the process of putting in place the necessary measures and plans to prevent disruptive incidents from damaging your business. One of the measures that needs to be taken is to remove, as far as possible, single points of…
If you don’t check, how will you know? I was in town yesterday, posting cards for Christmas. Due to a mistake on my part I inadvertently sent the card intended for my brother in Australia to somebody else: leaving me a card short. In case you weren’t aware, yesterday was the last posting day for…
Don’t get caught out by winter this year. In case you haven’t been watching the news here in the UK, the snow is back. Round here in East Anglia it’s just cold, but snow is falling further north. If you haven’t done so already, have you gone through your winter preparation checklist yet? Have you:…
