Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a planning process to provide resilience of your business to disruptive events. It will help ensure that key customers, your brand, reputatuion and key suppliers are maintained, helping to ensure you long term survivability.
Business Continuity needs to be considered by small companies and organisations as well as larger corporations. Incidents and disasters can have catastrophic effects on business and incidents can originate from many sources from accidents, criminal activity or even natural disasters.
The following information will help you decide the current position of your organisation and help you start to plan.
HM Government Preparing for Emergencies - What you need to know - Practical, common sense advice on what businesses can do
Cabinet Office Pandemic Influenza - Checklist for businesses
Business Continuity Institute - Promotes the art and science of BCM worldwide
The Business Continuity Institute Good Practice Guidelines - guidelines that aim to provide a generic framework for successful Business Continuity Management
