Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a planning process to help organisation can deal with, and recover from, any unplanned interruption to its operations.

It is about anticipating the type of incidents, such as fire, flooding, flu pandemic, supplier failure, power, or water supply interruption, strikes, or anything else which could interrupt your business and planning how you will deal with them, if and when they happen. It is simply good business sense to ensure that your business will survive.

Compiling a businesses continuity plan should ensure that any business, no matter how small or large and complex, can identify its essential elements and swiftly resume its operations if any unforeseen event occurs.

There is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to business continuity planning. Although the basic process is the same, the complexity and scope of the resulting plan should reflect the size and complexity of the business processes involved.