UK companies are still not doing enough to ensure business
continuity, according to the Continuity Forum.
The Forum is a non-governmental organisation that provides
independent advice and support to public and private sectors on
business continuity.
Forum chairman, Russell Price, told Computer Weekly that despite
improvements in technological capability, more than half of UK
companies do not have specific business continuity plans in
place.
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“Disappointingly, on a national basis the uptake and development
of business continuity has remained rather static,” said Price.
A recent report published jointly by the Continuity Forum,
Chartered Management Institute (CMI), and the Civil Contingencies
Secretariat in the Cabinet Office shows that the level of
continuity planning has remained static for the past six years.
Only 47% of the more than 700 respondents to a survey conducted
among CMI members indicated they had a business plan in place, but
this has changed little since the 2002 survey level of 45%.
“So it is those who have already bought into the principles and
are gaining the value of business continuity that are refining
their plans, rather than the message and the value being extended
into new companies,” said Price.
The Continuity Forum, he said, had fought to maintain its
independence to enable it to work effectively in public and private
sectors and provide a link between business continuity service
providers, end users, and local and national authorities.
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