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Need a Business Continuity Plan for your SME?
But don't have the time
... or don't know where to start?
CONTINUITY COVER is the answer! |
Teed Business Continuity recognises that there are often significant challenges in implementing a Business Continuity Management (BCM) programme within small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We have therefore created a BCM service which addresses these challenges and aims to make business continuity simple, cost effective and value adding for SMEs.
The experience gained by working with our diverse client base ensures that Teed consultants will almost certainly have already come across the challenges that you face. We recognise that there are issues specific to SMEs and can utilise lessons from numerous previous projects to ensure that BCM is implemented smoothly and efficiently.
We have developed Continuity Cover specifically for SMEs to assist them in achieving business continuity competency through providing them with an expert, cost effective business continuity planning service. A Continuity Cover certificate is issued following implementation to demonstrate to stakeholders the level of preparedness achieved.
Three Continuity Cover packages offer effective business continuity planning to suit all sizes of organisation and budget.
Package 1 = £2,500
Package 2 = £4,500
Package 3 = £6,500
*Prices held until 30/04/08.
Please click on the link for a full explanation of the Key_Features of each package.
Building Resilience for SMEs
There are many benefits to a business continuity project. A tested plan will give you and your staff confidence that your business is resilient to major disruption. Many organisations are now requesting that their suppliers can demonstrate a level of competence in business continuity – ensuring that their own business continuity would not be threatened by the failure of a key supplier.
Insurers like business continuity too – many will offer significant reductions on business interruption premiums to businesses that can demonstrate their exposure is limited by effective planning. For those organisations with shareholders, business continuity is now expected as part of corporate governance requirements. Also the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 now places a statutory obligation on some public organisations to have effective business continuity plans in place and these public bodies are starting to look at their own suppliers.
If you are called out in the middle of the night to find your only building burning to the ground, could you move staff to a suitable alternative location, communicate effectively with stakeholders, recover essential IT and data and identify key activities that need to be continued? Would your customers remain loyal? Or would they move to a competitor if you were unable to maintain an appropriate level of service?
SMEs are particularly exposed to disruption. For many, a single location, restricted cashflow, dependency on a few key people and intense competition mean that a disruption could easily turn into a catastrophe if not managed effectively.
Full details of the Continuity Cover service can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking on the link below
If you would like to discuss your organisation's business continuity planning requirements further, please use the Contact_Us page. One of our consultants will contact you by return. |
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