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When Staring Down Crisis, Could You Manage Your Business?

When Staring Down Crisis, Could You Manage Your Business?

Unfortunately, crises happen, so the only responsible course is preparing your business to deal with them. Let’s walk through what modern crisis management should look like for businesses of all sizes, identifying the steps to address these risks and protect your operations.

How to Design a Crisis Plan that Works for You

First, You Need to Identify All Threats and Evaluate Their Impacts

There are more disasters than you may think that could impact your business—from natural events to human errors and malicious efforts. You need to sit down and list them all, then determine which pose the most significant risks to your business and how much they’ll affect what you can accomplish. While all threats should be addressed, this will help you prioritize the most likely ones to impact your business so that the appropriate measures can be prioritized.

Second, You Need to Plan to Deal With These Threats

A business continuity plan and emergency response plan are two essential facets that you need to arrange before experiencing an issue of any size or shape. A business continuity plan needs to identify who is responsible for what, how operations are to be resumed and maintained, who needs to be communicated with, and how backup data is retrieved. Your emergency response plan needs to identify the most pressing considerations in any event, from evacuation routes to emergency contacts to first aid supplies.

Third, You Need to Get Everyone on Board

Once your procedures are established, your team needs to be trained to follow them and subjected to repeated practice to ensure they have it down. Everyone needs to be able to take the lead in implementing the plans that have been established, first, to make sure everyone is safe, and second, to allow your business functions to resume.

We Can Help Keep Your Essential Data Safe in These Occasions

Of course, you must ensure that your data is preserved through a disaster event to get back to business quickly and effectively. That’s where Argentum IT comes in.

We’ll help you establish a backup that ensures you have the most recent copy of data to work with, allowing you to make up for a minimal amount of lost time. Learn how we’ll work with you to ensure this by calling (502) 473-6407.

 

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