The Problem

It is a well documented fact that the vast majority of small businesses that suffer a significant
event (fire, flood etc) cease to trade within 12 months. Yet despite this being a relatively well know
statistic, very few small businesses have undertaken any form of Business Continuity planning.

Simply making more small companies aware of the risks has not had any significant
impact on the growth of continuity planning.

Most small businesses have very limited resources – both in terms of people and cash.
It is a constant battle to deploy those resources in the most effective manner possible
to ensure survival and hopefully generate a little growth.

Business Continuity planning is seen as an improbable event. Any investigation of the what is
required to build a Continuity Plan results in discovering that the process seems very complicated,
it is very expensive both to set up and to maintain, and usually requires hiring equally
expensive external consulting resources.

As important, most Business Continuity planning has been designed to address the needs / resources
of larger companies that can afford it and is usually a significant overkill for the small business.

The result is the vast majority of small businesses simply cannot afford the time costs of developing
and maintaining a business continuity plan.

The Challenge

We set ourselves the challenge of designing a system with the following attributes:

Very low cost of adoption in money and resource and maintenance
Enable the business to implement a continuity plan in small chunks over a period of time.
Ensure that the processes are maintained through changes in staff and circumstances.
Enable a high level of self sufficiency, removing the barrier of high consulting fees

The Solution was The RMIS Crisis Management System

The RMIS Crisis management System offers the following functionality and benefits:

Common fully populated Business Continuity template that allows personalization by each business
Ability to quantify and amend the templates to enable formal certification compliance
Modular plans that allow the company to under take the process in bit sized chunks
Extremely easy to use (self explanatory)
Defines the rational and process of the module
Automatically steps the user through the process
Enables the automated capture and data entry for each company information
Fully automates and alerts the company on nominated update and review cycles
Scalable functionality to allow the system to grow with the company
Promotion of Best Practice amongst companies through common template resource
The ability to extract comprehensive reports from the centralized database

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