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Continuity Plan (BCP) For Your Business!
You do not need to spend $10,000’s for consultants or fancy software. This is prefect for small businesses and limited budgets.
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Be Prepared - Don’t Let Your Business And Your Customers Suffer Because Of An Unforeseen Disaster.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) looks beyond just IT Systems Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) and evaluates the entire business end-to-end. This includes the facilities, the processes and most importantly, the people. Even if your IT systems are backed up and still working, your business cannot operate without people working.
A BCP will enable you to plan ahead, because you want to stay in business in the event that an unforeseen disaster or emergency happens that interrupts your business operations. In situations such as this, you want to know clearly what needs to be done to keep business running. You need to be prepared so that panic does not cause you to make inappropriate and ineffective decisions which will hurt your business.
Having a BCP provides a clear roadmap of what to do, when to do it, and who needs to do it. Having this plan in place will give you a valuable tool to guide you through the disaster and provide peace of mind knowing what to do to keep your business running.
In the event of a disaster where will your people work from?
If downed trees and power lines cut off major roadways needed for distributing your product what will you do?
If a swine flu outbreak keeps 3/4 of your staff at home can your business still function?
This is what BCP looks at; being prepared for the unplanned interruptions. Making advanced preparations just in case of disaster is good business, but it does involve some cost, so the level of preparation needs to be evaluated against the potential risk. This is what an effective BCP plan will evaluate. The plan will look at each critical operation and identify the level of risk and the options for maintaining business in the event of a disaster. Based on this evaluation (typically know as a Business Impact Analysis or BIA), an effective and realistic BCP can be created which will effectively help the business to survive and operate during an unforeseen interruption or disaster.
The critical elements of the plan must include not just the IT systems but also personnel/employees, communications, production, distribution and (very important) communications with customers, vendors, media, local authorities and governmental regulators. If you do not pay your taxes or your bank loans because your records are under water, you may not be in business after the water level goes down.
Big businesses have readily adopted this strategy and brought in consulting firms and purchased enterprise software to set up and manage BCPs. This has created the biggest opportunity for disaster-planning consultants since Y2K. The down side is that the price tag for having a firm set up and manage a BCP can go into the $100,000’s. For small businesses, this is too cost prohibitive but BCP is still critical and this should not deter small businesses from seriously thinking about what they would do in the event of a disaster.
Rather than paying out big$$$ for a team of consultants or licensing enterprise software, small businesses can benefit from following the same logical thinking that the consultants use. BCP firms typically come into a client with a standard set of templates (a basic generic roadmap for the BCP) which identifies all the potential risks and key operations in a business (paying vendors, manufacturing, customer service, regulatory filings, etc).
The consultants then interview key individuals in each area and ask them how important each operation they perform is (how long can the business survive with out it?). Then they ask these same people what the options are to keep this operation going if a disaster happens (can you outsource it? To whom? Can you buy extra supplies and keep them somewhere else?).
Then with this information, the consultants modify the standard templates as needed to suit the situation. The final modified templates are presented as a customized BCP plan to the business management, who ultimately makes the decisions on what they will support in terms of what steps will be put into place and how much money will be spent. The bulk of the specific actionable information in the BCP comes from the business, not the consultants. The BCP templates provide a guide to prompt the appropriate discussions and ask the right questions.
So armed with a basic BCP template, a small business owner can perform this same procedure and come up with an effective BCP on their own or with the help of conscientious person (not necessarily a BCP consultant). Although the process of setting up and managing a BCP seems very complicated and/or prohibitively expensive for small businesses, it does not need to be. There are materials and resources available that would greatly help out the small businesses to be prepared for the unforeseen without the need to spend large sums of money.
The Affordable BCP Package includes a fully mapped out customizable BCP Master Template which walks you through the process of Business Continuity Planning and allows you to fill in the blanks step-by-step. This is the same process followed by BCP consultants and used to develop BCP software. And the end results will be a fully functional Business Continuity Plan which you can use without spending a fortune to create it.
The template is a fully editable WORD document which you can customize as needed to fit your business needs no matter how simple or how complicated.
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The BCP Master Template includes the following modules:
I - Plan Overview and Contact Information:
1. Plan Summary
2. Plan Approval
3. BCP Leadership Roles and Responsibilities
4. Internal Contact Information
5. External Contact Information (Customers)
6. External Contact Information (Suppliers and Business Service Providers)
7. Utilities and Facilities Services
8. Financial Services Contact Information
9. Regulatory Agency Contact Information
10. Critical Records and Systems
11. Backup Locations
12. Backup Service Provider and Supplier Information
13. Emergency Services Contact Information
II - Business Risk Assessment and Impact Evaluation:
14A. Business Process Risk Evaluation
14B. Business Process Disruption Impact Evaluation
III - Pre-Emergency Planning:
15. Risk Mitigation
16. Emergency Materials and Supplies
IV - BCP Plan Activation and Implementation:
17. Plan Activation
18. Plan Implementation
V - BCP Plan Deactivation and Restoration of Normal Operations:
19. BCP Plan Deactivation
20. Return To Normal Operations
VI - BCP Plan Testing
VII - BCP Plan Maintenance
VIII - Example Appendices / Attachments (types of documents you might need to attach to the BCP)
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Includes step-by-step instructions to guide you through the template.
The Affordable BCP Package includes a full set of detailed instructions which explain in plain language what information must be recorded in each section and why this is important. No mumbo-jumbo tech-speak or regulatory jargon to try to impress you to spend more money.
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Disasters/emergencies can happen at any time and to any business. These all too common events which can interrupt your business include:
Fire
Flood
Cyber attack
Sabotage (internal or external threat)
Severe Weather
Power or Utility outage
Terrorism
Earthquake
Theft (equipment, supplies, money or information)
Loss of supplier (due to a disaster affecting their facility)
Loss of critical computer system (server, database or web site critical for doing business)
Widespread Disease (such as swine flu that kept many people home from work)
In situations such as this, you want to know clearly what needs to be done to keep business running. You need to be prepared so that panic does not cause you to make inappropriate and ineffective decisions which will hurt your business.
The BCP plan provides a clear roadmap of what to do, when to do it, and who needs to do it. Having this plan in place will give you a valuable tool to guide you through the disaster and provide peace of mind knowing what to do to keep your business running.
Does All This Sound Too Complicated?
The Affordable BCP Package also includes a completed example BCP to use as a model.
This example Business Continuity Plan was created using the the BCP Master Template and following the Affordable BCP Instruction manual. Just follow along with the example and copy or modify what you need for your business. If you're like me, the most effective way to learn is by example; why reinvent the wheel?
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