Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A business emergency is one of those things you never want to think about — until you have to. Weather emergencies. Natural disasters.

Business continuity is a tool for handling the transfer of a business to a different owner when the original owner leaves, dies or becomes incapacitated. A continuity plan protects short-term and long ...

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As discussed in Part 1, the first step in Business Continuity Planning is to form the BCP Team, create the Mission, and draft the Policy. The next step is to conduct a vulnerability risk assessment.

Establishing a company’s strategy and plan is mostly done in an atmosphere of optimism about the near-term future. Ironically, this is also the best time to consider steps you will take should ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations, including those in financial services, are thinking hard about business continuity planning. The pandemic is raising awareness and prompting a ...

Imagine you are a small-business owner with multiple projects on the go and business partners in three different time zones. Now imagine that you wake up one morning and realise that you are too sick ...

Building an incident response team (IRT) is a good first step along the path toward effective business continuity event (BCE) management. But the team needs a plan to follow when an event occurs. A ...

In previous posts, we stepped through the process of understanding the business, the threats it faces related to business continuity, and how prepared it is to prevent, detect, or respond to events.

Just shy of a year ago, I sent an email to our global fund manager partners and to our direct portfolio CEOs titled “Only the decisive survive.” At that time, not many outside of China were concerned ...

Search “business contingency/disaster recovery plan” and you’re likely to experience information overload, so let’s sidestep the noise and cut to the chase. Since the terms “business continuity” and ...