TIM’S VIEW
A worldwide pandemic to test your disaster recovery plan
Firstly from all at Randall & Payne our very best wishes to all our clients and their families, to our suppliers and others we work with at this difficult time.
I hope this is the one and only of these that I write while we are all having to work from home! I think all the adjectives have been used to describe where we all are so no more fromme. Many of us, I am sure, look at our disaster recovery plans every year, imagine we may get a fire or a major water leak or some such problem. We can recover from an event like that quickly, move to another building temporarily, source new equipment and be on our way. I expect few of us anticipated needing a disaster recovery plan to deal with a pandemic and lock down. So here we all are. We all have plans, we have put them into effect. The military will tell you few plans survive first contact with the enemy. The first rule of any plan must then be to be adaptable and flexible. It’s no good following a plan rigidly that’s designed for a different scenario but if robust it can no doubt be changed. Work through it, make the
There is another plan we are all going to need and that’s the one for the end of all this. The world will be different, don’t necessarily expect the restrictions to be lifted and everything to go back to as before. Use this period to look at the changes you can make for that new world so you are prepared as you can be. We may have been caught out with the disaster recovery plan, let’s not get caught without a recovery plan.
Use this period to look at the changes you can make for that newworld so you are prepared as you can be
Stay well all of you.
changes needed and then revisit it regularly.
Contact TimWatkins for more information by emailing tim.watkins@randall-payne.co.uk or call 01242 776000.
Use your teams, they will have ideas on sources of income, cost savings, new ways of working and will be keen to get involved. We all know where we are, we know where we want to be in say 6 month’s time, let everyone have a say in how the journey looks. And don’t forget your team should include your advisers, talk to us, to them, we can help with scenario planning or just be a sounding board and anything in between.
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