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BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM REVIEW
FREE TO ALL NEW CUSTOMERS
We are offering a FREE* one hour independent business continuity management review including report (worth £200) to all new customers.
We will review your current business continuity & disaster recovery arrangements and produce a report identifying your options for improving you current continuity & disaster recovery arrangements.
Your report will identify the level of perceived compliance to the de-facto British Standard for Business Continuity Management Systems, highlight the work scope to meet the standard requirements plus any perceived short term improvements you can implement.
In the preceding 12 months to January 2009 1 in 3 organizations suffered disruption due to a loss of IT. 1 in 4 organizations suffered disruption as a result of extreme weather such as floods / high winds or loss of telecommunications and 1 in 5 organizations suffered disruption through utility outages such as electricity, gas, water or sewage.
A total of 91% of organizations that had invoked their Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in the previous 12 months had stated that the BCP had been effective in reducing the disruption.
DISASTER RECOVERY OR DISASTER AVOIDANCE?
Business continuity planning takes business protection one step further than disaster recovery planning, which simply focuses on the short term re-establishment of normal operations following a disaster. It takes a proactive approach, identifying potential disasters before they arise and planning an organised response to ensure that business interruption and disruption to customers and staff is kept to a minimum. In short, it is about ensuring that a crisis does not become a disaster in the first place. For example, if your business were hit by fire, a business continuity plan would anticipate all its potential effects on the business, its processes, people and customers. It would consider the effect of temporary closure on sales and order fulfilment, and the impact of interrupted operations on cash flow and staff morale. Most importantly, it would look at how the overall incident would impact on different areas of the business.
