Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Template for Small Businesses

Our comprehensive Business Continuity Plan (BCP) template is designed specifically for small, low-complexity businesses. This easy-to-complete template helps you prepare for unexpected disruptions and ensures your business can continue operating smoothly. The BCP template includes:

  • Introduction: An overview of the template provided by Inoni, tailored for small businesses.
  • How to Use the Document: Step-by-step guidance on completing the template, with example text and instructions for adapting it to your needs.
  • Business Impact and Risk Analysis: Tools to define impact tolerance, identify critical products and services, and assess continuity risks.
  • Continuity Risk Assessment: Scenarios and strategies to prepare for worst-case disruptions, ensuring your business is well-positioned to respond.
  • Activity Tracker: A schedule for training, exercises, and reviews to keep your BCP up-to-date and effective.
  • Emergency Response, Crisis Management, and Business Recovery: Detailed plans for responding to emergencies, managing crises, and recovering business operations.
  • Role Definitions and Assignees: Clear roles and responsibilities for your team during a continuity event.
  • IT Service Continuity: Recovery processes for critical IT systems to minimize downtime and maintain operations.

This BCP template is your essential tool for ensuring business resilience and continuity. Download now to safeguard your business against unforeseen events.

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Make it a programme, not a project

Business continuity planning is often treated as a point-in-time project, but ideally, it should live and evolve alongside the organisation, accommodating change and building maturity. We support our clients business continuity support far beyond the initial phases of planning, ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of their business continuity management programme, delivering in three essential ways:

  • Creating Content – developing and maintaining high quality, standards-aligned Business Impact Analysis, Business Continuity Plans, IT Disaster Recovery Plans and Runbooks.
  • Building Capability – designing and delivering online training modules, role training, tabletop exercises and crisis simulations.  Together these build capability in people, ensuring the plan works and has no gaps.
  • Maintaining Control – providing reviews that ensure the business continuity management system is kept up-to-date and continually developing, reflecting changes in circumstances, and identifying improvement opportunities.

Talk to the Business Continuity Experts

If your business is large and complex, you'll need additional support to ensure you're safeguarded against all possible scenarios.

By speaking with us, you’ll discover:
• Gaps in your current resilience strategy and how to address them
• Practical, tailored solutions to enhance crisis preparedness
• Proven methods to ensure your team is trained and ready for any disruption

Let’s start the conversation. Talk to us today and take the first step towards a more resilient, risk-ready organisation. Our expert team endeavour to return your message within 24 hours.