Business Continuity Plans
Business Continuity Plans
What is a Business Continuity Plan?
A business continuity plan is a common-sense document containing systemised processes that address specific circumstances and needs of your business in the event of a crisis. It provides practical strategies to follow in a crisis, eg fire, flood, storm, explosion, terrorism and adverse market or financial circumstances, computer viruses or power outages.
With experience in handling live disasters, EDC understands the importance of a well constructed plan. A good business continuity plan will give you a better understanding of how your business works, the risks it faces and what needs to be done to ensure recovery from an incident.
Every business should know how to manage an emergency situation. Planning is best done before an event, not in the middle of it. How quickly your company gets back to business after an emergency often depends on the planning you do now.
Helping you test your plans
Business continuity plans need to be regularly tested, reviewed and updated to make sure they remain relevant and useful. Business continuity and disaster recovery testing can be complex and this could explain why only 40 per cent of companies regularly test their plans as many fear that it will be costly and difficult to do.
EDC removes the risk of ineffective testing by first analysing the requirements of the test and then creating an effective test procedure. To determine test requirements EDC has developed a unique toolset based on industry standards, which incorporates a combination of software and business processes. Using this toolset, our clients have saved months in labour costs with a replicable cost-effective business continuity planning software that ensures business continuity plans never date.