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How Prepared Are You? Business Continuity Management Toolkit
27th January 20091 Comment
In the event of a business disruption, Business Continuity Management (BCM) helps you to identify and prepare for critical business operations that impact upon the provision of your services or products to your stakeholders, particularly your customers. This may be more important for organisations with global complex supply chains or where there is a single-point of dependency from either the supplier or customer side.
Proactively planning rather than waiting for the incident to happen will assist you minimise the risk of impact and enable your business to resume critical operations within the quickest time and ultimate safeguard reputational risk.
The benefits of having a robust BCM plan in place will provide stakeholder assurance against loss in share value, competitive position and your ability to maintain critical supplier/ customer relationships.
The hard part is to understand where to start from. The following business continuity toolkit developed by the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, in partnership with stakeholders, to help the commercial and voluntary sector implement BCM. The tooldkit may help you to identify and prioritise your organisational risks to support the development an effective response strategy. It is designed to assist you in answering the following questions:
· What are my organisation’s key products and services?
· What are the critical activities and resources required to deliver these?
· What are the risks to these critical activities?
· How will I maintain these critical activities in the event of an incident (loss of access to premises, loss of utilities etc)?
Need to know more…please download the toolkit. If you have any questions regarding the implementation of BCM for your organisation or the toolkit itself you may contact me at raz.chaudary@lrqa.com
28th April 2011 at 2:12 pm
hi there,
Small businessmen have great things to learn online
Thanks,
Mike