Make business continuity a priority
Business continuity management is an art and science all of its own, and best practice is evolving all the time.
We hope you've downloaded our Business Continuity Checklist to help strengthen your continuity plans and protect your organisation from significant disruptions.
But why is Business Continuity so important?
The answer is simple: you want to minimise damage and disruption to your organisation, ensuring you can continue critical operations while protecting your reputation and income.
In short, you want to guarantee Business Continuity.
At Ecclesiastical, we take Business Continuity seriously and have thorough plans in place to handle almost any situation.
When the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020, we quickly implemented necessary responses to keep our business running smoothly. We moved staff to work from home, prioritised essential business functions like handling customer claims, and adjusted our IT and communications accordingly. This allowed us to provide a seamless service.
While we hope the pandemic was a once-in-a-lifetime event, there are many other strategic threats that you should plan to avoid, regardless of your organisation's size and complexity.
Business continuity management is both an art and a science, with best practices evolving constantly. The Ecclesiastical risk team's comprehensive and user-friendly guidance document will help you navigate the key stages of the business continuity lifecycle.
We won't go into full details here, but the document explains what a good Business Continuity Policy looks like, how to implement, maintain, and review it, and how to integrate it into normal operations. It also includes useful appendices with a template Business Impact Analysis, suggested risk categories, and a potential Crisis Response checklist for you to adapt.
Steph Jackson is Senior Enterprise Risk Management Consultant, at Ecclesiastical
