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contingency plan

tactics which would be adopted in the event of a firm's original plans being thwarted. It is important for a BUSINESS to establish contingency plans so that they have a fall-back position. If, for example, a key component supplier is unable to deliver on time, the firm should have alternative suppliers lined up to avoid excessive disruption to its own production process.
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The report showed that fewer than one in 10 respondents said their organisation was certi-fied to ISO22301, the international standard for business continuity management.
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Overall, Borchert says, Factiva's business continuity plan encompasses the full spectrum--from dire circumstances in a specific location to the much longer term and larger scale that a pandemic would introduce.
Planning for the inevitable
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Examining their current network environment and assessing requirements for primary and secondary data locations, the firm's IT leadership established several main objectives as the overarching requirements needed to create a solution that would ensure business continuity in the event of data damage or disaster.
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If you don't have a proven, comprehensive, and effective disaster and business continuity plan already in place, doing so now may mean the difference between your organization's survival and failure in the future.
Planning for the worst. (In focus: a message from the editors)
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