It’s not uncommon for companies to consider things like data breaches, power outages, or natural disasters when putting together their business continuity plans. An article in CIO.com suggests, however, that recent events have shown the need to think beyond the conventional, and expand your planning to items that may be rarer in frequency, but which could have much greater impacts should they concur.
While the impact of worldwide pandemics has been frequently discussed in recent years, the situation in Ukraine is again drawing attention to considering the importance of geopolitical threats, and how they can rapidly change an organization’s ability to function. Writing at CIO.com, Siddharth Ram, CTO and VP of engineering at Inflection, offers some insights into how to build geopolitical threats into your business continuity plan, including:
- Where possible, build teams with presences across multiple nations and regions
- Emphasize collaboration between regions, rather than building functional silos limited to a single region
- Build plans for employee safety, including both local security and relocation
- Encouragement of written communications over verbal ones, to ensure proper records
Disruptions can certainly still occur, but by considering the above, the effect on business continuity can be limited.
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