Our survey found that not surprisingly, Pandemic Influenza prompted BCP changes more than any other single issue. However, the majority of changes were prompted in relation to issues not addressed on our survey.
We found that in most companies, BCP has either been a longstanding priority or has become one due to regulatory changes rather than in reaction to a particular disaster or threat.
We found that only large enterprises show a stronger trend of having an up-to-date BCP as compared to small and medium enterprises which had equal numbers with and without up-to-date plans.
In all multi-site organisation categories bar one, we found a higher incidence of up-to-date BC plans with single site organisations being the only category with more respondents answering no than yes.
We found a leaning toward placing higher value on technology over personnel in an effort to maintaining high availability.
Two thirds of companies had no automated communications solutions for contacting staff outside of work during a major incident although two thirds did have special arrangements for communicating with key executives. In most cases systems were in place to allow staff to work from home/remotely, although again, in the majority of cases, there was no messaging solution in place for reaching employees outside of work.
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