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Dealing with adverse weather conditions: another reminder to take business continuity seriously

Caversham, UK, January 6th 2010: The UK among many countries is again facing further widespread disruption to economic activity through adverse weather.  While many organizations have business continuity plans the majority do not. 

While the duration of the current disruption may be short, the point is that organizations face many such disruptions throughout the year:  each one cumulatively holding the business back from achieving its objectives.  2009 was a year marked by adverse weather conditions, industrial action, the continuing fall-out from the economic recession and swine flu, and of course, individual organizations would have faced specific additional threats such as IT and telecommunication failure, fires and cyber attacks.
The investment of time and resources in developing a resilient organization through a Business Continuity Management programme will pay itself back many times over.  It will give confidence to customers and investors that the business can keep trading even in difficult times or will at least recover faster than those without such plans.

Lyndon Bird FBCI, International & Technical Director at the BCI commented: “Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a straight-forward way to understand the vulnerabilities and dependencies in your business and their sensitivity to internal and external disruption– BCM is widely proven to help organizations recover faster from disruption.”

Source – BCI – Business Continuity Institute