Ensuring business continuity helps your organization maintain agility, become more resilient, save money, and avoid costly downtime. While it may be impossible to prepare for every situation, you can create a strategy to minimize your risk and get back up and running as quickly as possible. Business continuity has taken on an even greater focus in the wake of the ongoing pandemic as organizations have realized they are far more vulnerable than they initially thought. Thankfully, technology has allowed many of these risk factors to be mitigated and even eliminated. Here we take a look at how to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster.
Create A Comprehensive Plan
The first step in being prepared for a disaster is to create a comprehensive business continuity plan. This should include everything from the team responsible for carrying out the plan to the strategy for getting back up and running after a disaster and everything in between. You’ll want to analyze your risks and potential vulnerabilities and develop a clear plan for addressing each one. Determine what it will take to maintain operations throughout a disaster and contingency plans for each vital aspect of your business.
Store And Backup Data In Multiple Locations
“Having proactive data backup procedures in place can add additional security for your business and allow you to handle any unforeseen data loss situations, keeping your productivity and brand stable. Since data loss can happen at any time and in a multitude of ways, just making backups is a good place to start.” Multiple location backup ensures that you will not lose your data regardless of the system that is impacted. Some options include desktop storage, cold storage, cloud storage, and personal hybrid cloud storage.
Invest In The Right Technology
A VOIP platform is essential to business continuity as you can connect phones over the internet, enabling your team to maintain communications anywhere there is a connection. Meeting software allows teams to stay connected for company briefings, team meetings, and client calls. Having a centralized marketing automation platform that houses all of your content and the tools you need to carry out campaigns assures you that your efforts will not be negatively impacted in the case of an emergency. Cloud computing allows your team to maintain operations and critical functions during a disaster and helps to avoid costly downtime.
Platforms such as RingCentral and Amazon Web Services have played a significant role in the continuity of organizations throughout the pandemic. These services allow you to maintain communications and operations seamlessly regardless of where your team is working. Alto9 can help identify your most prominent risk factors, develop a plan to ensure your business is ready for anything, and provide the technology necessary to make it all happen. Contact us today for a free consultation.
