BUSINESS CONTINUITY. PLANNING. A Business Continuity Plan helps you prepare for a major disruption to your organisation.
5 STEPS
FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING A Business Continuity Plan helps you prepare for a major disruption to your organisation. It puts processes and plans in place to respond to these events and enable you to limit the impact they have on your critical business functions.
If you don’t have a plan, you’re not alone. Large numbers of organisations don’t have them, and many that have created plans don’t regularly test them to make sure they stay current. An untested, out of date business continuity plan is a prescription for failure. Clearly understanding the threats to your company and the potential costs of responding to them is critical to workable emergency planning. Therefore a risk assessment and a corresponding business impact analysis are essential. Once you have a Business Impact Analysis in place, Interactive can provide the facilities to ensure your operations continue to run as usual. Contact us to book a tour at one of our World Class facilities.
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In a 2017 ITIC study, it was found that the average cost of downtime to a business was:
$100, 000 Can your organisation afford this?
An ITIC independent survey measuring downtimes costs, also found that every year since 2008 the average cost of a single hour of downtime has risen by:
25% to 30% So is failing to prepare, preparing to fail?
5 STEPS
FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING Internal key contacts
STEP 1
It is important to identify the internal or human resources required, and identify the key roles and responsibilities of individuals involved in the recovery of your organisation. Having the cooperation of the right people across the business is an essential step to success.
Communicate with & train staff
STEP 3
Education and make all stakeholders aware of the plan. They need to clearly understand their responsibilities and the key tasks to be carried out.
STEP 5
Test & fine tune
Regular annual testing will not only verify your Business Continuity plan, but will also help to identify any potential issues that may arise during an event. This exercise will highlight adjustments which need to be made to your plan and gives you the opportunity to make the necessary changes to roles or procedures as needed.
STEP 2
Create business impact analysis
A Business Impact Analysis identifies critical business processes, resources, and relationships across an organisation and can help in quantifying the potential impact if a disruptive event occurs. Once this is clearly defined, you can determine alternative strategies to mitigate loss.
STEP 4
Identify threats
Monitor potential oncoming threats so you can respond in a timely and appropriate manner. Some disasters are not within your immediate control. Therefore it is important to consider your supplier chain, and the impact they would have to your daily operations.
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If you are looking to protect what matters most in business, and avoid operation disruption and downtime, Interactive has the world class facilities, which are modern and well equipped to enable you to recover both your IT systems and business functions.
