Business continuity management

Every year businesses like yours suffer major disruption from a range of unplanned events and many never recover – but past experience from such incidents in the UK shows that organisations which have ‘business continuity’ arrangements in place are more likely to stay in business and recover more quickly than those that don’t.

Business continuity is about identifying risks which may interrupt the operation of your business and developing plans and arrangements to reduce those risks and ensure prompt recovery.  There are many formal definitions of business continuity but they all centre around:

• assessing what might go wrong, and
• planning to minimise disruption should the worst happen

Gloucestershire Prepared offers information about business continuity with links to a variety of useful websites and a business recovery toolkit.