Use these tips from Forbes to develop your business continuity plan…so you’ll be ready for anything.
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| Define potential risks. It is crucial to begin your business continuity plan by identifying any and all potential threats or risks that can disrupt your business. These can include any type of risk from human error to being located in an area that floods frequently. |
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| Determine how those risks will affect operations. Once you have your list of possible risks that could affect your business, consider how each risk will impact your business. Severe risks will require a lot more planning ahead then the smaller, more frequent disasters. |
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| Develop your business continuity plan. This is the most important phase, where you will determine how your business will reduce interruptions in the case of a disaster, how you will recover from them, and the resources you will need to help protect your assets, staff, and business as a whole from further compromise. |
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| Implement your business continuity plan. Once your plan is finalized, distribute it to all key members of your business to ensure they are comfortable with all steps outlined in the business continuity plan. One of the first steps should be to consider investing in an automatic internet backup connection to help keep your business up and running even if your network is out. |
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| Review, review, review! Your business continuity plan should be reevaluated regularly to ensure it remains relevant and up-to-date. Make corrections as necessary and give it a test run to see how it works. |
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As said in step number four, one of the simplest things to do to ensure business continuity is to invest in an 4G LTE automatic internet backup connection, like Connection Pro. It can provide peace of mind, keeping your network up and running for up to six hours during a power or network outage.
Now, this may not help in a natural disaster situation that lasts weeks, but during a more common outage it will provide your business with the internet connection needed to stay in touch with your coworkers, clients, suppliers and branch offices.
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