Basic concerns of a business continuity plan

Let's think about the skeleton of a business continuity plan. We'll start with a commonsense approach that you can use for your own business - especially if you are a small or medium size business.

What are the basic day to day support functions crucial to your business?

* Telephony - outbound / inbound
* Contact database
* Computer system
* Email
* Payroll related files
* Customer data
* Paper files
* A working procedures for employees
* Physical office space
* Mode of operandi
* Customer deliverables
* Power
* Specific machinery / equipment access
* Other?

Whilst I've covered most of the fundamental considerations above you can perhaps add to the list.

In following articles we'll look at each of the above areas more closely.