Developing business continuity within your organisation

Experience shows that developing a business continuity programme can help to reduce the impact and costs of a disruption. It means your organisation is much more likely to continue trading and delivering services if a disruption or emergency were to happen.

The first step in this process is to assess the risks to you business, this can be done through a business impact analysis.

The next stage is to embed business continuity within your organisation.

The Business Continuity Institute produces the good practice guidelines which provides a guide to global good practice in business continuity.

The guidelines outline the business continuity management lifecycle, showing the stages of the activity that an organisation moves through and repeats with the overall aim of improving organisational resilience and embedding business continuity within your organisation