Stage 3: Developing and Implementing Your Business Continuity Response

Now that your critical operations and their points of weakness have been identified, a strategy has been developed to safeguard them and the resources to preserve them chosen, you need to ensure that your crisis management teams are able to action their response appropriately. This signals the need for clear documentation, education and training of individuals’ roles.

Using our core plan-building competencies at this stage, we document the details from stages One and Two succinctly and consistently to create a plan that ensures vital information is always at hand. The resulting plan defines and supports the roles within your team, maximizes the protection of your reputation and brand image and makes certain that public, stakeholder, market and regulatory confidence is maintained when an event occurs.

Model adapted from the BCI Good Practice Guide with thanks. More....