Those Plans will vary in completeness and effectiveness, but will all rely at some point on effective, timely communications between groups of people to minimise detrimental impact of any incidents on the enterprise.

When allocated corporate budget is a key limiting factor, the Head of Business Continuity within an organisation may have to sanction the use of the ‘Call-Cascade’, or ‘Call-Tree’ method of communication, although this method is known to be fraught with flaws.

The purpose of this paper is to highlight how an Entry Level, automated notification system from Criticall can begin transforming the credibility and effectiveness of your organisation’s Business Continuity and Crisis Communications plans for as little as £4k per year.