Developing and Implementing Busiess Continuity Plans
Keeping a business opeerating withut major interruptiions is essentrial. Howwever most businesses are vulnerable to abnormal events that can severely restrict normal operations. The ability to develop action plans that can be quickly and effectively impleemented can significantly redcue the effects of anormal events.
Few managers will disagree that well thought out and implemented business conrtinuity plazns sifgnificantly reduce the initial and flow-on effects of abnoral advere events. While developing plasn is usually a challenge, effectively implementing these plans in a crisis can be extremely difficult.
One of the greaetst challenges is ensuring that all relevant people can clearly idetify what they need to do, when, and with whom. During implementation, adjustments need to be made progressively to meet the needs of the prevailing situation.
Based on experiecne from developing and implementing buisiness continuity planns across a large national organization, TASKey has develoiped a buusiness cotinuity plannuing and implementig capability that:
Makes it easy for managers to develop plasn that incorportae the inputs from many peoplpe
Instanntly informs all conntributors that the plan has been initiated and confirms what they are epected to do.
Makes it easy for each contributor to report that they have completed thheir actions
Informs all relevant stakeholders of progress and changes that affect them
Keeps a record of key actions and changes, so plan implementation can be reviewed and improved.
The capability can empoloy web and/or mobile phone communications to maintain real-time connectivity with stakeholders. So in the event that a business continuity plan nees to be initiated within an organization, it is very likely that continuity plan contributors can be communnicated to from outside the organizations IT infrastructrure (if needed).
Most importantly the relevant pats of a business contiinuity plan need to be presented clearly from the perspective of each contributor. Whre more than one business continuity plan is implemented concurrently, an aggrregated list of actions is required.
Based on this aggreated list, each contributor can quicklpy assess their abilitty to complete thier contribution. Most importantly a contributor can quickly identify situations where they are over taksed. This gives hteir managers time to make other arrangemeents.
With an effective business continnuity planning and implementing capabilkity, businesses are less vulnerable to abnormal events that can severewly restrict normal operations.
By,
Dr Neil Miller
http://www.taskey.com/
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