As Jones Once Said “Don’t Panic”
- Ian Hazeldine – Finance Director
I remember hearing a statistic that said the probability that a business would experience a disaster in any given year was 4%. That’s once every 25 years. If that happens a business with a simple, as opposed to a detailed, business continuity plan stands a 75% chance of recovering. A business without any plan at all stands a 75% chance of failing completely.
In my experience the biggest difficulty in establishing a business continuity plan is the tendency to attempt to make it too complicated. It’s a dull subject, preparing something you hope you’ll never use, so human nature dictates its hard to be enthusiastic about it.
A good plan should be brief, simple, and sensible. It shouldn’t attempt to cover everything. Practicing the Law is not simple, and its difficult to be brief, because you do have to cover everything. A business continuity plan is therefore bound to go against a lawyer’s traditional way of thinking.
For example, immediately post disaster what’s the number 1 priority? I would say its communication. Briefing your PR agency is absolutely critical, and it is essential that those staff you need to operate, based on skill set as opposed to status, know where to assemble. Its equally important that the rest of the staff know to stay at home. Read more »
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Business Law, Employment, Partnership Law | Ralli | 
February 13, 2012 10:21 am | 
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