Just another section in ...

... the Business Continuity Plan.

You do all have a Business Continuity plan don't you ?

Too many people think of Business Continuity as being the same as Disaster Recovery, and a good proportion of those (particularly management) then take a further step and label it all as IT ! BC and DR are about more than the building being destroyed by fire or washed away in the floods - it includes all sorts of things, and yes, that includes the subject of this article.

A well run company will have a BC plan, it will be comprehensive, kept up to date, and all the key people will be reasonably familiar with it's contents having practiced a number of scenarios over the years. The majority (the proportion increasing with smaller size I suspect) of businesses employ a different approach to BC - can you say "crossed fingers" ?

Over the last few months we've seen countless reports on the news of (mostly) small businesses who clearly had no BC plan, and had clearly ever given a moments thought to it. After all, why should anyone living/working on a flood plain have any reason to consider the effects of flooding !