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Business Continuity Tool: Delivering Upon your Stakeholder Promises
25th November 2008
ASIS International (ASIS) have developed a business continuity checklist as a tool to allow organizations to consider the factors and steps necessary to prepare for a crisis (disaster or emergency). It is designed to assess an organisation’s resilience to manage and survive the crisis and take all appropriate actions to maintain critical operational viability.
The checklist has applicability in both the private and public sector environments. and can assist in creating, testing, and maintaining an organization-wide plan for use in the event of a crisis that threatens the viability and continuity of the organization.
Internal auditors can use this checklist to customise their own assessment tools and approaches. Ultimately, recent events, economic, supply chain assurance, environmental and security have implications for an organisation’s future and ultimately its sustainability. Organisationsal stakeholders are seeking business assurance and the therefore the challenge goes beyond the standard emergency response or disaster management actions undertaken previously.
A holistic business continuity plan can serve to assure the continuation of an organisation’s critical activities, prior, during and most importantly after an operational disruption. Businesses can achieve confidence in knowing that core processes within, for example, their supply chains, manufacturing operations, service centres , field delivery are agile and flexible enough to negotiate the unknown and unforeseen effectively and efficiently. This can be a differentiator of competitive advantage as it can support organisational competency to deliver stakeholder assurance and ultimately upon your agreed promises.