According to a business survey by SunGard Availability Services, almost half of UK businesses are facing difficulty in embedding business continuity management into their organisational culture.Whilst 56 percent of respondents believe that their business continuity management policy is generally ‘good’, 44 percent recognised that they were failing to entrench it into the fabric of their organisation. 86 organisations responded, but none was currently fully compliant with BS 25999, the new British Standard for business continuity management. To make matters worse, 41 percent of respondents felt that their business continuity plans were compromised by inadequate testing and review processes.
Perhaps the most important observations were made by Ron Miller, managing consultant at SunGard Availability Services, who said: “…business continuity management cannot and must not be the sole preserve of the IT department. Instead it needs to permeate through the whole business and be woven into the fabric of the organisation, with input and leadership from the highest level."
If your plans are lacking continuity elements, ARC can help you to improve them, with one-day BCM workshops available either as part of our Security Management Stage 2 Course or in-house at your location. For further details contact Janet.
Also, you can follow this link to Sungard’s excellent BCM site where you can undertake a self assessment of your BCM preparedness against the the current British Standard, BS 25999.
