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The importance ofB C P : OVERVIEW Have you identified key business processes that are critical to the survival of your business and created contingency plans to ensure the continuity of your business in the event of unforeseen issues?
Business Continuity Planning is something that should be available to all businesses before it is ever needed. BCP gives you and your customers the confidence that your business will reliably continue to operate when it needs to be.
Often times your business needs all your attention to keep it running, it's only when you have a major issue to deal with that you wish you had a contingency plan in place. A plan that tells you and your staff what to do in certain situations and when to do it. The business continuity plan also helps you get your business back on track to business as usual after operating issues have been resolved.
A contingency plan that kept your business running whilst your customers had no idea that you were dealing with a big problem is something that makes you different from your competitor and keeps you in business.
No matter how large or how small your organisation is, can you afford NOT to have a contingency plan that suits your business needs and enables you to deal with adversity?