ImpactReady: Business Continuity Planning
ImpactWeather’s contingency planning team – the ImpactReady Business Continuity Planning Program – ensures your assets are protected, your emergency response is effective, your risks are mitigated and your business is resilient. Bringing over 150 years of real world crisis experience to the table, ImpactWeather's consultants can:
- Integrate our weather services into your emergency management program
- Assess your contingency planning against national standards & industry best practices to identify strengths and weaknesses
- Train, test and realistically exercise your crisis management personnel
- Ensure continuity and recovery of your critical business operations
- Develop effective response plans for all the threats your business faces
- Deliver the entire spectrum of business continuity services you need
Working together, our team will ensure you prepare, plan, respond and recover so that your business is ImpactReady.
Business continuity planning and similar preparedness efforts are often seen as either unrelated to the business plan or, at best, a necessary evil. Those businesses that do have a plan seldom review it for consistency with the current state of the business or test it to make sure it will work when needed. A plan written three years ago is likely incompatible with the existing business. The reality is that business continuity is a strategic investment that helps a business stay competitive, even in the face of temporary disruption. Some quick facts make the point:
- Nationally, 40% of businesses do not have any business continuity plans, and those that do have several weak or missing elements (AT&T)
- Seven of ten businesses that experience a disruption of over 3 days will fail in less than 2 years; nine of ten will be out of business in 5 years. (Business Continuity Institute)
- Locally, 35-40% of businesses disrupted by a disaster without a continuity plan never reopen. (Houston Area Research Center)
- The average annual disaster loss in the US prior to Katrina/Rita was $2.5 billion, and the rate of occurrence of natural disasters has increased 40% in the last 15 years. (Homeland Security)
- Every dollar spent on disaster preparedness saves 7 dollars in recovering disaster related economic losses. (Houston Area Research Center)
- Companies with strong business continuity programs have a greater market capitalization before an event and a 22% higher stock price after an event than companies with weaker or no programs. (Knight and Pretty, Oxford University)
Mike Thomson
We know for a certainty that every business will face some form of disaster at some time. Those businesses which have prepared will be in a much better position to prevent a serious disruption of their operations. Additionally, those prepared businesses will be able to recover in a more cost-efficient, timely manner because much of the initial recovery requirements and resources have already been identified. This means that those businesses that can recover faster will attract more customers and draw business away from a competitor which has not resumed operations.
Take advantage of ImpactWeather’s Business Continuity Planning division so that your well-prepared company can realize these benefits:
- Increased investor confidence
- Favorable public opinion
- Better insurance rates
- Better loan rates
- Higher customer loyalty (you'll be there when your customers need you)
- More efficient recovery means lower cost due to fewer wasted dollars
- Better employee loyalty (you care enough to help them prepare)
- Reduced financial and legal liabilities
For more information, call Mike Thomson at (877) 792-3220 or email 
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