Appreciating the Benefits of Business Continuity
Getting straight down to the important stuff, here are some of the key benefits that an effective BC system can produce:
Understand what’s important to your organisation and in turn facilitate better, more confident decision-making (turn to Chapter 4 for more on how to do this).
Bring assurance and protection to your staff (which we discuss further in the later section ‘Developing Your People Sense’ and Chapter 17).
Increase your company’s reputation (check out the later section ‘Enhancing and supporting the reputation of your business’).
Show that you’re serious about the resilience of your business (see Chapter 6 for details on demonstrating your business continuity to your customers and suppliers).
Ensure that you have measures in place to fulfil your obligations as a supplier (flip to ‘Supporting Financial and Legal Aspects’, later in this chapter, for more info).
Introduce testing and exercising of your BC strategies, which helps ...
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