What Is Business Continuity?

 

A Common Sense Approach to Protecting Small Business

 

Business continuity "…prepares an organization to respond to an interruption of essential business functions and provides the guidelines to fully recover operations, services and programs."

 

Business continuity is a critical process for the small business owner/operator or not-for-profit organization because businesses and organizations will fail if not properly prepared for disruptions, disasters or emergencies.

 

The majority of business operators and non-profit managers would indicate that lack of time, money and resources are their biggest challenges, and may prevent them from being able to fully implement a ten-tier business continuity program. This is because adhering to the voluntary business continuity standards is a time consuming process that requires a steep learning curve and often involves hiring consultants and completing complex analyses.

 

B-ReadyNow Makes Business Continuity Planning Easier

 

B-ReadyNow offers a business continuity planning process that recognizes the challenges of small businesses and not-for-profit organizations and helps them implement a simple, six-step process. B-ReadyNow simplifies the business continuity process by removing industry jargon, the need for a new certificate of knowledge and the long period of program development.

 

As a B-ReadyNow subscriber, you can have a complete, basic contingency plan in as little as a few hours.

 

B-ReadyNow's Six Steps and their 'Business Continuity' Names

 

1. Know Your Risks – Risk Assessment, evaluation and control.
2. Know the Impacts – Business Impact Assessment (BIA).
3. Create Strategies – Mitigation, business continuity strategies.
4. Develop Communications – Contacts and crisis communications.
5. Complete the Plan – Response and recovery strategies and structures.
6. Exercise and Review – Plan testing and maintenance.

 

Seven of the ten professional practice subject areas as outlined by the Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) are covered within the B-ReadyNow 'Plan Builder'. The remaining three are discussed and addressed as they become relevant for small business and non-profit operations.

 

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