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Only 15 Percent of British Firms Confident in Their BC Plans, Study Finds Only 15 percent of mid-market firms in the United Kingdom have fully tested their BC plans and are confident they will work, according to a new survey. In an article on the ComputerWeekly.com website, Warwick Ashford says the study by Vanson Bourne asked companies with 250 to 1,000 employees about their BC plans, and found that more than half that have BC plans haven’t tested them fully, and 18 percent haven’t tested them at all. “Business continuity plans are implemented most effectively by those organizations that can afford to do it. For the most part this means large multinationals rather than mid-market firms,” Simon Robinson, research director at The 451 Group, told Ashford. However, Robinson also said the emergence of standards such as BS 25999 was a step in the right direction, and a number of technology suppliers were starting to focus on helping businesses of this size solve their business continuity challenges. Neil O'Connor, principal consultant at Activity, told Ashford the results could be because businesses of this size have a lot to cope with, and even though many are aware of the need for business continuity planning, it never gets to the top of the priority list. Other factors could include a fear of failure, the belief that continuity is an IT problem, and lack of confidence in the process because there were so many different ways of doing it. To read the full article, click here: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/04/30/230496/
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