Business continuity

• Do you run a business?
• Does your business supply other businesses or are you supplied by other businesses?
• Do you or your customers rely on public access to your business through telephones, email, websites, or from the street?

If you have answered YES to any of the above then you need to be thinking of Business Continuity.

Business Continuity is the way by which you can plan to deal with any event that could stop your business from working and get you back up and at full capacity as quickly as possible.

This is not just about having back ups of data but also looking after your staff and knowing that the image of the strength of your Business can be as important as the people inside it.

This is not just about terrorist attacks or computer viruses but also about the leaking water pipe in the office above you, the gas leak that will keep you out of your office for hours at a time, or the disruption to your supplier that means that your latest delivery won’t arrive until long after your shelves are empty.

If you would like advice on how prepared you are to deal with an emergency go to LondonPrepared (opens an external website in a new window), or view their Making Plans section (opens a new window) to learn about creating Business Continuity Plans.

If you want some advice on any aspect of Business Continuity then please contact Guy Cullum Business Continuity Officer for The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 020 7361 3869 or email guy.cullum@rbkc.gov.uk.

Don’t be in the dark to what Business Continuity is about; find out for yourself how it can help you save money.