How to create a business continuity plan

How to create a business continuity plan

When you run a business, there’s nothing worse than a missed opportunity. And when an unexpected event—whether it’s natural or man-made—disrupts your business, every minute can feel like a missed opportunity.

To avoid such issues, it’s essential that you have a business continuity plan in place. A business continuity plan will help you limit downtime and loss in the event of a disruption, while boosting customer and employee confidence, lessening business risks and reducing potential financial losses.

Follow these five steps to help create your business continuity plan and keep your business on track, even during the toughest of times.

1) Uncover your risks
The two biggest mistakes businesses make are failing to identify a potential threat and underestimating the severity of a known threat. To avoid these mistakes, follow these simple steps:

  • Identify your threats, including natural hazards that might affect the location of your business.
  • Rank the probability of those threats, then rank the severity of each.
  • Multiply the probability and severity to create scores for each and address the highest scores first.

2) Analyze your operations
Responding quickly to a disruption can be the difference between survival and closure. Identify your key business functions and processes and decide how long you can go without them and remain in business. Consider the answers to these questions when formulating your answer:

  • What is your main product/service?
  • What are the things that could most likely impact your ability to do business?
  • Which of your business functions and processes have legal, contractual, regulatory or financial obligations?

3) Know how to contact employees and vendors
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