Practical Business Continuity Management

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Best practices for effective business continuity management, Business continuity challenges and how to overcome it etc.

   Organizations may be exposed to the risk of unexpected disruption to their business operations such as natural disaster fire, flood, supply chain disruption cyber attack, employee strike and pandemic. such events can severely impact revenue, profitability and even survival. To protect your organization and ensure that business operations continue to function when such events occur, you must establish a business continuity management system ( BCM). There are three main areas in the processes of business continuity management: these are establishment, implementation and continuous improvement. These processes and their interactions are needed for an effective and comprehensive business continuity management that will help your organization identify potential threats and recover from any form of disruptions or threats to your business functions. The ability of a company to respond quickly and swiftly to an emergency is largely a function of the disaster preparedness mindset among its employees. to inculcate a mindset of disaster preparedness companies ought to ensure that the employees do not panic in case of an emergency and have their wits around them when disaster strikes.

   This is possible only if the employees are trained to respond in an agile and adroit manner to emergencies. This is particularly important for those companies that operate mission critical systems like 24/7 banking operations and communication networks. For these companies , disasters are opportunities to show their customers on how well they can respond to the emergency and ensure that the customers do not suffer. More often than not, the agility with which companies respond to emergencies is often the way in which top management maintains its calm and presence of mind during emergencies.