Crisis Pro: Do you have a Business Continuity Plan in place?

It's a fact, accidents cost money. And with 20% of business suffering a major disruption every year (source: DTI), it doesn't matter how small your business is or whatever your activities are you can still be vulnerable to the financial strains placed upon you.

Therefore effective risk management is crucial in order to fulfill your responsibilities as an employer, whether that is to your employees, customers, suppliers and the general public. A CMI 2008 survey estimates that only 33% of SME firms have a business continuity plan; can you afford not to have your own contingency plan in place?

Answer: NO
Solution: Crisis Pro

The Crisis Pro approach is to seek a balance between the unachievable aim of absolute safety and the kind of poor management of risk that damages lives and your business. And as you will appreciate, your business works well when your people are able to utilise resources. If resources are damaged or inaccessible, there is an immediate impact on operations which may affect staff, customers, reputation and, of course, the bottom line.

So whatever your chosen method, your decision to create a Business Continuity Plan should be taken to protect and benefit your own company, the protection it provides to internal and external stakeholders is valuable to the growth you would like to see on the bottom line.

The best way to mitigate the effects of a loss is to have a suitable contingency strategy in place. Crisis Pro allows you to develop and document a plan allowing you to manage your way through a crisis without being overtaken by events.

However you decide to plan for the worst, a Business Continuity Plan has to be the most comprehensive way to give the business the security it needs to enable you to provide the growth that the stakeholders in the business demand.

If you would like to find out more about Crisis Pro please contact us for an initial informal discussion.