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Business Continuity: How to prepare for a bad day

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Putting in place a robust business continuity plan can feel a little daunting, so we have put together six helpful steps your business should consider when building and implementing your strategy.

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Did you know ONLY 27% of small businesses have a business continuity plan

A business continuity plan covers every aspect that is crucial to your business to be able to keep operational and recover as quickly & smoothly as possible from any type of disaster.

  1. Step One: Risk Assessment – What potential threats does your business face?
    • Natural disaster
    • Cyber threats
    • Theft
    • No power
    • Hardware failure
    • Internet outage
  2. Step Two: Business Impact Analysis – What would be the impact of an unplanned incident?
    • Loss of business
    • Effect on reputation
    • Loss of data
    • Loss of staff
  3. Step Three: Recovery Strategies – What is needed to keep your business operational?
    • Processes
    • People
    • Resources
    • Suppliers
    • Recovery times
  4. Step Four: Design and Implement – Create your plan of action…
    • IT disaster recovery plan
    • Alternative resources
    • Document workarounds
    • Organise recovery teams
  5. Step Five: Train and Test – How are you making sure your plan works?
    • Educate staff
    • Staff awareness
    • Mock test scenarios
  6. Step Six: Monitor, Maintain and Evolve – Are you continually updating & improving your plan?
    • New / changing threats
    • New technology
    • Structure / operation changes

Sources
[1] Databarracks Data Health Check 2015 Report
[2] Strategic Resource Institute

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