A report published this week by the Chartered Management Institute reveals that UK businesses are ill prepared to cope with disaster and disruption.
Loss of IT capability, loss of skills and loss of people were flagged up by a cross-section of business as areas of concern. Yet only one in ten of those surveys had put any continuity plans into action.
The research also indicated that only 20% of organisations actually rehearsed the effectiveness of their continuity plans.
John Sharp, policy and development director at the Continuity Forum said: “Having a plan is not enough. Major steps still need to be taken as too many organisations are scraping by with inadequate and untested plans that expose them to unnecessary risk.”
