What’s your Business Resumption Plan?
July 25, 2007 by Eric Eggertson
Filed under Marketing
Every organization has vulnerabilities and dependencies that can shut down part or all of their operations for a period of time.
Just ask the companies that operated out of New Orleans pre-Katrina.
If your company has a business resumption plan, you should pull it out and review it. Make sure there is adequate planning about maintaining communications during an emergency, and communicating about the emergency.
If you haven’t had a table-top exercise recently, to test the plan’s viability, you should. If you haven’t tried a simulation, and tried to test your business resumption plans, why not?
A week ago it was an earthquake shutting down the car industry’s manufacturing because a parts supplier’s factory was out of commission. Yesterday it was power outages in San Fransisco that brought down a bunch of Web 2.0 companies and the customers that rely on them. Next week, it could be you.
Tags: business interruption, emergency, planning, business resumption, disasters, san fransisco
Eric, although I am certifiably small time (or crazy) I back up all of my data regularly to an external drive. If a hurricane is headed our way, then I pack up the computer and drive and head out with the family.
Should a fire consume everything, it’ll take some time to recover. Okay, I don’t have every conceivable plan in place, but now you got me thinking!