Business Continuity.When business is disrupted, it can cost money. Lost revenues plus extra expenses means reduced profits. Insurance does not cover all costs and cannot replace customers that defect to the competition.
A business continuity plan to continue business is essential. |
Many managers think that business continuity starts and ends with having a reliable back up of computer files.
But what would you do if your office building or factory is flooded or burnt to the ground overnight? What would you do if one of your suppliers becomes insolvent? How will you cope if a number of your staff become unwell at the same time? Will your business continue seamlessly through such a crisis? Regardless of the size of your organisation, the need for resilience in a competitive market place may be the difference between success or failure for your business over the long term.
Development of a business continuity plan includes four steps:
Contact Envision today for assistance to review your level of preparedness or to conduct an exercise to practice your capacity to respond to and recover from a crisis affecting your business. From this we can help you to develop some simple systems and strategies to ensure your business continues beyond the next crisis, including training your key people in their business continuity roles and building an effective team to manage your crisis.
But what would you do if your office building or factory is flooded or burnt to the ground overnight? What would you do if one of your suppliers becomes insolvent? How will you cope if a number of your staff become unwell at the same time? Will your business continue seamlessly through such a crisis? Regardless of the size of your organisation, the need for resilience in a competitive market place may be the difference between success or failure for your business over the long term.
Development of a business continuity plan includes four steps:
- Conduct a business impact analysis to identify time-sensitive or critical business functions and processes and the resources that support them.
- Identify, document, and implement to recover critical business functions and processes.
- Organize a business continuity team and compile a business continuity plan to manage a business disruption.
- Conduct training for the business continuity team and testing and exercises to evaluate recovery strategies and the plan.
Contact Envision today for assistance to review your level of preparedness or to conduct an exercise to practice your capacity to respond to and recover from a crisis affecting your business. From this we can help you to develop some simple systems and strategies to ensure your business continues beyond the next crisis, including training your key people in their business continuity roles and building an effective team to manage your crisis.
CALGARY FLOOD, 2013
Envision's principal consultant Peter Devenis successfully delivered Business Continuity and Recovery for Talisman Energy Inc.