Business Continuity For Dummies

Chapter 3

Achieving Rapid Results and Quick Wins

In This Chapter

Assessing the resilience of your business

Making immediate progress with the ‘Seven Ps’

Human nature dictates that you believe your business to be more resilient than it actually is. And because staff members take their lead from you, when you give them the impression that all is hunky-dory, they aren’t going to be alert to risks. The buck stops with a firm’s owner as regards business survival, and if you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you always got . . . which means that lightning – metaphorically – can strike in the same place twice, or even three, four or five times.

So you want to begin introducing business continuity (BC) in your organisation without delay. For this reason, we design this chapter to get you off to a flying start by offering a host of inexpensive and simple ways to begin building resilience quickly within your business.

This chapter describes some straightforward measures that don’t take long or cost much, but do encourage the resilience of your business. We take you through some great tips and quick wins – under an easy-to-remember framework of the ‘Seven Ps’ covering everything from People and Premises to Publicity and Public Infrastructure. Although following the tips ...