Monday, September 21st, 2009

Small and medium-sized enterprises tend to get ignored when talking about business continuity planning. The planning is more prosaic. The challenges are fewer. And most importantly, their budgets are smaller.But of course, the same principles that apply to large businesses also apply to the small ones. We at Oppello are an IT consultancy that specialises in looking after small to medium sized businesses. And business continuity planning is a must for companies of all sizes. A small firm that loses all its data will go out of business, just as surely as a larger one.If anything smaller firms become more vulnerable to crises because larger companies are geographically more diverse – knocking out your operations in say Edinburgh is not as business critical when your offices in London can take some of the overload.A few years ago business continuity planning was only regularly undertaken by the larger corporations, nowadays SMEs are more than likely to make some kind of preparation. Part of the problem, however, is that smaller companies are typically less aware of the correct procedures than larger firms where systems have been developed.Initial IT auditFrequently we’ll find small companies that have thought about continuity issues but not implemented them fully, On our initial audit we’ll find, for example, that IT ...
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