Disasters can often overlap, as Texas found out recently when organizations already reeling from the response to COVID-19 were hit again by a winter storm that caused losses of power and heat across the state. For many companies, this second crisis was more than capable of overwhelming their already taxed systems.
While many companies have business continuity plans, these plans often assume disruptions will be separate discrete events, rather than overlapping or interacting events. Instead, business continuity plans need to be designed with the idea that multiple disruptions can occur simultaneously, with potentially more significant effects. “In terms of business continuity issues, we have to ask: what happens if there is a secondary crisis?,” Bob Mellinger, CBCV, founder and president of Attainium Corp. told Associations Now. “You need to handle that differently.”
Says Mellinger, “A good business continuity plan will be continuously improved. There will be new things that get added, and things that will evolve. What you are doing now is different than what you were doing a year ago. And it will probably be different than what you are going to be doing a year from now.”
Source:
https://associationsnow.com/2021/02/apply-pandemic-lessons-evolve-improve-business-continuity-plan/
