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Ready for anything? Safeguard your SME!
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Ready for anything? Safeguard your SME!
SMEs have traditionally placed business continuity planning rather low on their priority lists. It’s not hard to see why. Given that only a minority of all businesses have a continuity plan in place, it’s unsurprising that small business owners generally feel this is not something on which they can afford to spend their limited resources. And after all, we all believe that the worst only happens to someone else…
However, recent research from BT concludes that many small businesses are at serious risk because they fail to make sound plans for dealing with a major problem. BT encourages SMEs to take a careful look at the threats that face them (in particular the dangers posed to their data and IT systems by extreme weather, fire, power failure, or viral attack) and to create a sound, tested plan that will provide a recovery route should an incident occur.
Businesses that are able to recover rapidly following a crisis will survive and thrive. Those that do not may suffer serious effects, and may never recover at all. A business continuity plan will defend your business in the face of these threats, enabling trade to continue even when the unthinkable happens.
With the rise in cyber-crime and terrorism, business continuity planning is developing an ever-higher profile and its importance in protecting businesses and reassuring customers is increasingly acknowledged.
Russell Price, Chairman of the Continuity Forum comments “It’s critical that small firms don’t neglect continuity planning: they don’t have the financial resilience of larger businesses or the technical expertise needed if things go wrong. Small firms see continuity planning as an expensive process, but it doesn’t have to be, particularly when, in the event of a crisis, they risk losing everything”.
Here is a great guide for anyone who wants to start up their own business – or for those who have already done so but are on the lookout for more insight and information.
This is not one of those turgid “Do it this way” manuals, but a readable, good humoured resource from an experienced entrepreneur. Robert Ashton combines sound common sense with excellent practical advice. The latest book from this prolific author offers a routemap to ease your journey – and your fears – as you venture into the uncharted territories of business ownership. It’s beautifully easy to navigate: find your way around the many nuggets of wisdom using the index and incisive chapter summaries.
This book provides a long-term resource that will not only see you through the pains and pleasures of creating and launching your venture, but will stand by to offer guidance and inspiration as your business and experience grow. It’s loaded with the experiences of others who have trodden the entrepreneurial path before you, and even gives personal contact details with some contributors who are keen to share what they have learned.
“This book”, says The Sunday Times, “is full
of the stuff the ‘experts’ never tell you. Use it as your short
cut to success.”
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