Our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery modules offer you all the guidance required to embed Business Continuity Management best practice into your organisation.

Business Continuity focuses on keeping business operational in the event of disruption, whilst Disaster Recovery is a response strategy, designed to be deployed in the immediate aftermath of an incident taking place, in order to restore the vital support systems of an organisation (think hardware, IT assets, comms etc) so that downtime is minimised and operations are back up and running as soon as possible.

Business continuity may be the very thing that keeps you in business when disaster strikes - even a minor one. Most managers believe they've got everything covered, simply because nothing has gone seriously wrong yet. Most likely, it never will.

But, what if there was a fire, not necessarily a big one. Or anything that might interrupt your business for just a few of days? Such as:

• the electricity supply failing
• your IT networks going down
• your telephones failing for a day - or a week
• your key documents being destroyed in a fire
• you being unable to access the building
• casualties at work

Could you manage?

To ensure you do, the 'Head of the Business' needs to take responsibility for business continuity planning. This section can help you develop a plan.