The blessings of mobile technology
We spent some time yesterday discussing the Business Continuity Plan for the business; we focussed on how having spent much time drawing it up there were constant changes to the business that necessitate revisiting the plan and revising it.
The business is based on two sites in a city and we’ve recently moved one of the sites – creating an obvious need to update and amend. Next year however there will need to be a more fundamental revision as we combine the operations onto one site.
Having had the luxury of two sites and the flexibility that results from that in the event of some crisis we will now have to have another relocation option to ensure continuity of service.
Ironically this morning we arrived in the office to find the building operating on emergency lighting due to a large fire just down the road – no power, no phones, no IT but all of a sudden mobiles and Blackberrys come into their own.
After a couple of hours normal service was resumed but it was a good test of our preparedness for a wider scale disruption.
