A new book on business continuity for small businesses
Practical Business Continuity without the jargon
Aimed at small businesses and organisations who have little or no business continuity currently in place, this book explains the concepts of business continuity simply, and with no jargon. It includes templates to help you to build your plan.
Why buy this book?
This is a book for small businesses and organisations who are thinking about preparing their first business continuity plan, or are looking to improve an existing plan. Small businesses are the backbone of the UK economy (and the vast majority have less than ten employees) yet most business continuity books are aimed at large companies and organisations with specialist support. Many books are full of jargon, and assume that your business has substantial resources for planning. In contrast, no prior knowledge is assumed in this book, and jargon is limited to the barest minimum.There has never been a more important time to pick up this book on business continuity and start thinking about what you need to do, and how to do it.
How this book can help you
This book is a step-by-step guide that will build your first plan. The key steps in developing a simple business continuity plan are set out, and at the end of each of these steps is a template to capture the information you need. By combining these templates, you will produce a straightforward business continuity plan that you can start putting into action immediately. You will then also need to maintain and refresh the plan, and use it correctly when disruption occurs. All the information to do this successfully is covered in subsequent chapters.
Once your plan is complete, you may want to build the resilience of your business more generally, and the final chapter of part one provides advice to do this. Part two of this book provides a reference that will help you add detail to your business continuity. It includes chapters on managing risk, identifying and assessing threats, and adapting techniques from general business planning that you can use for your business continuity planning. Additional information is provided for larger organisations on the organisational structure needed to respond effectively to a major disruptive incident.
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