When disaster Strikes is ready for a small business? Unfortunately, the answer is that a disaster can strike at any time, and it is often the unplanned situation. All companies need Business continuity strategy, unfortunately, most companies do not even know what is the plan for continuity of operations.
I spoke to the small business owner in the last week and asked him if he was in the continuity of the business plan. His answer was "no, one is not required-I am not planning to retire, the second 10 years".
I meant the business continuity plan is a plan or Exit strategy in the plan, but rather a plan for your company to continue its activities in disaster striking.
Why your company is a business continuity strategy? Because usually the disaster does not indicate that they are coming, and it means that the company probably would not be a complete disaster.
What types of disasters can affect businesses: fire, flood, earthquake, Hurricane, Tornado, tsunami, terrorism and more. Unfortunately, the list is long.
Note: If you are the one-person company, you will have a shortened version of the outline below. Shorter tasks and you want to keep the list. Keep a copy of the continuity of the business plan, safety deposit box (to the entire city if possible), or with someone you trust, which is available in emergency situations, but not in the case of the neighbor next door (because of the disaster to strike both of you at the same time).
If you run a small business for more than 15 employees you wish to have a plan for each Department (e.g., public/Government, sales and marketing, operations and human resources, etc.); and each department responsible for the plan, the Department head. The plan needs to be included in the master document, which you, the small business owner is to manage and monitor.
The plan is to take account of the effects of the disaster, how to manage the company's activities. Employees can receive in your workplace? Your company is running? How do you connect customers and suppliers; or how they contact you? Do you have business records, the management information system, which is backed up daily and stored in a hosting service (in the manner of the hosting service-for some business owners to save this information in cities across the country: downloaded backup copies of the backup script is moved from the expert services).
What is the continuity of the business plan must include:
Communication plan: how to communicate with you and who you can communicate with? A list of contact information must be included in all the key stakeholders: employees, customers, suppliers, the insurance company's representative, lawyer of your own, your accountant, your software vendor, landlord or property manager, pankinjohtajaltasi If the building is owned by shareholders, is not, and other important business.
Consider using the Web site to get out messages to stakeholders. When you start phoning staff, vendors, customers, please let us know that you can be posting updated information on the company website (if you do not have one set up at least one page of the site placeholder). Make sure that you have the site host, which can make the updates to the site for you-you'll be busy elsewhere. This saves the message and getting the time of the referendum.
Adequate insurance coverage: to ensure that the coverage of suspension of operating income: you can cover both of the upstream or downstream of the loss situations. The upstream could incur, if one or more of the vendors of the disaster and could not be delivered the necessary supply interruption. Downstream, in the context of the customer might be the key to the disaster and stop the loss of your product or service. Make sure that you have appropriate insurance to cover the other related issues: for example, the employees of injuries on the spot or visitors or customers of the loss of the goods or materials.
Inventory list: make sure that the continuity of the business plan includes the detailed inventory, equipment and supplies you use frequently.
Business recovery: build a business recovery plan. What do you do first, second, third? How can you start? Consider using the instructions for competitors (Yes, that hurts, but in the end, if your customer through this support, remember). If you need to consider the establishment, equipment, and how quickly could replace the most important (for example, consider the request, the supplier of the equipment if they are, they may borrow for a tour of units until the new equipment will be delivered to you). If you are a Business inventory, make sure that you keep your inventory-vendor information, contact lists, and plan documents.
If you own the building, you might want to keep the list to the pre-approved professional engineers (these will be given to the demand If the disaster is a hit a large area), and consider the big supermarket chains to engineering. If the building is still standing after the disaster, still may need or want to review before launching operations in a structural.
If you want, depending on the extent of the disaster damage and is again in the business. Do not make this decision too quickly. Always have a strong emotional response to the disaster. You can cloud your ability to emotions, do a good business decision. When you enter a business continuity plan for now-also, why do you run your business and why you got into the business. After a disaster strikes, check carefully, or rebuilding does not, the reasons for your business. If you have a strong business continuity strategy built on the plan, it shall take a decision on whether to proceed much easier.
Kris Bovay owns a Voice in the Marketing Inc, small business marketing and services company. Kris has more than 25 years of experience in large, medium-sized and small enterprises in the leading. Small business management and strategy about the http://www.more-for-small-business.com For following the comprehensive business continuity plan outline http://www.more-for-small-business.com/business-continuity-plans.html , is to visit the Copyright 2008 Voice marketing, Inc.
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