Small Business Continuity Planning
and Disaster Recovery Planning
You don't have the time to think about saving your company from a disaster.
It's all you can do to keep up with the daily demands of your business.
Business Continuity Planning is only for large companies, right?
Disaster Recovery Planning is expensive, too, isn't it?
Besides, how do you know where to start?
According to the Gartner Group, 40% of businesses suffering a business interruption fail within five years.
Usually we only think about how we'd respond to a disaster after reading about a hurricane, fire, or earthquake that's severely impacted others. That's human nature.
But small companies are particularly vulnerable.
Despite the enormous tragedy of the World Trade Center, large businesses have recovered quickly, thanks to comprehensive disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning. Smaller companies, though – especially those without any plan in place – have suffered the most. Even though many of their facilities weren't destroyed, their businesses were shut down for lack of electricity or water, loss of communications, or an inability to get into their offices at all. Actually, these are the most common reasons for business interruptions.
As one business continuity expert has put it, "Although disasters make the news, you could be put out of business by events that never make headlines."
Good news – It's not all that difficult, nor that expensive, to develop a plan to protect your business. With someone to guide you through the details, it takes only a moderate commitment of time and effort.
Treloar Associates can get you started by focusing on only the essentials of business continuity planning.
- Together we'll explore the critical functions of
your business that need to be restored immediately, and identify those functions
that can wait a little while longer.
- We'll help you decide how to react to
several different kinds of crisis.
- We'll work with your office staff to ensure
that critical paper files and documents aren't lost or unavailable during an
emergency.
- We'll work with your IT staff to ensure your vital electronic
business data is backed up and secure.
- We'll help you plan for recovering your
computer resources.
- And we'll help you test your plan to give you the peace of
mind that comes from knowing your business can survive.
To start with, we offer half and full day consultations at your location.
Half Day Plan Initiation
- Develop a plan outline concentrating on:
- Immediate response to an emergency (employee evacuation, treatment, and notification)
- Short term response (customer and vendor notification, communication and computer system restoration, alternative work site)
- Long term response (orderly restoration of vital functions, return to original location)
- Determine employee assignments and responsibilities
Full Day Plan Initiation
- Includes the half day planning session
- Adds a full computer systems and network restoration evaluation
Plan ahead to ensure your company can survive an emergency. We're ready to work with you to ensure that you're prepared if a disaster strikes.
After all . . . the worst time to plan for a disaster is during one.
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Continuity exists as a Business 2 Business tool, linking Corporations,
Government and other organizations to Certified Business Continuity Planners
