The Six Steps

The B-ReadyNow Plan Builder Dashboard allows you to navigate through the steps of creating and maintaining your plan. The first time you create a plan, you are encouraged to take the steps in order. Once you have completed the first version, you can navigate directly to different components to refine your plan, review your strategies or update your tasks and contacts.

 

 

Step 1: Know Your Risks
Here you discover and document what threatens your business. What are the core problems that could severely impact your business, stop production, halt sales? The first three tasks walk through as risk assessment process to produce your operations' risk profile.

 

 

Step 2: Know the Impacts
What would happen if the threats from Step 1 actually occur? What would the impact to your business be? This step involves examining your operations to pinpoint what the keys to your business are and how long you can survive without them.

 

 

Step 3: Develop Strategies
What can be done? You may be able to prevent an event or lessen its impact by taking proactive measures. And if a disruption occurs, you should have a plan for responding to the crisis. Take this step to develop protection measures.

 

 

Step 4: Create Communications Lists
Proper communications, at the best of times is an important function. During a disruption, the ability to contact staff, suppliers and clients is vital to an efficient response. This step creates the contact list tool for your response.

 

 

Step 5: Action Plan
Having response strategies is crucial, but do you know who is doing what and what their priorities are? This step helps you build the best way for you to organize your response.

 

 

Step 6: Review
A plan is a living document. Operations change, the plan changes. People change, the contact lists change. Through experience, the response changes. This step allows you to set review periods for important plan components and coaches you on how to learn from tests and disruptions.