OpsCentre’s YouTube channel features Rod Crowder, Managing Director, discussing key Business Continuity Planning issues and best practice strategies.
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Business Continuity Best Practice Strategies – YouTube Video
Saturday, May 15th, 2010Key Supplier Resilience as part of Business Continuity Management
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010It is not enough just to look at the resilience strategies for within your organization, the entire supply chain needs to be considered for your critical business functions.
Are you reliant on a single supplier for any key products or services?
If you have alternate suppliers, are they geographically separate or in other ways diverse from your primary supplier? If your primary supplier was affected by a problem, how likely is it this backup supplier would be too?
Can you build the requirement for these suppliers to have robust and verified business continuity in place for themselves into your supply agreements?
What are your workarounds and strategies if supply of these products or services were cut-off?
All of these questions should be examined as part of a robust business impact analysis of your critical business functions. Having a BCP is more than just a tick in the box for your audit report. It is about having confidence in your organization’s resilience. What a great selling feature for your clients, if you can confidently state you’ve got a mature and resilient organization that will stay in operation when others may fail!
Business Continuity Planning for Small to Medium Enterprise
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Consider the scenario of losing your primary premises due to fire. Can you answer these questions?
- How much revenue would you lose being out of action for a day, a week or a month?
- Have you got an alternate location to operate your business from?
- Is your data regularly sent off site and ready to be restored into backup systems?
- What are your critical paper records and how do you continue to operate if they were destroyed?
Every business, regardless of its size, should be confident in the answers to these questions and should be making an informed choice about the cost of implementing business continuity strategies and IT disaster recovery solutions versus the risk\cost of not doing anything.
Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) often don’t have the budget or resources to spend months implementing a business continuity project. But SME’s still have a need for BCP, just as much as bigger organisations. Quite often all of the physical resources, especially IT equipment are concentrated in the one location which can increase the risk. Sometimes without dedicated IT staff, the backup and restoration practices may not be sufficient to help them recover from a loss of premises type incident.
At OpsCentre we’ve refined the art of the ‘Quick Start’ BCP and can deliver a business continuity plan for suitable small to medium enterprises within 1-2 weeks. If your organization needs assistance with getting a business continuity plan in place we can help. Contact us and let us know what you need.