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Helping small businesses
keep disaster from becoming
catastrophic loss.
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Imagine you are the president of a company and one morning as you step out of the shower you hear the TV news talking about a five alarm fire. You wipe the water from your eyes for a closer look and see firemen standing on the roof of your office building hoses in hand fighting back the flames.
According to the American Red Cross “No business should risk operating without a disaster plan. While reports vary, as many as 40 percent of small businesses do not reopen after a major disaster like a fire, flood, tornado or earthquake. These shuttered businesses were unprepared for a disaster; they had no contingency plans or backup systems.”
Are you prepared?
If you think your business is too small to need a disaster avoidance and recovery plan, think again.
Disaster avoidance is keeping your car in good repair.
Disaster recovery planning is having a roadside assistance plan.
Disaster recovery is using a roadside assistance plan.
Disaster avoidance and recovery planning is not about technology. It is about protecting core business elements. Alison Lee Freeman has twenty years experience creating and executing disaster recovery plans.
Let Documentation Works help you be prepared!
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Protect your data!
What would happen if one morning you woke up, turned on the morning news, and saw your office building on fire? Would you assume that your data is safe, because it is stored digitally?
Be honest: Are you prepared?
How does your backup system work? Did you hire a company to install the system, but all you know how to do is change the tape? Does anyone check the error logs? Do you take your tapes offsite at the close of business?
Knowing where and how your data is stored is crucial to data recovery.
For many companies their customer database is a core business element. Protect it as though your business depends on it.
Be prepared!
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Protect your assets!
In the event of catastrophic loss, would you be able to produce a list of fixed assets? Do you have a procedure in place to update your insurance policy after a major equipment purchase? Many insurance companies recommend photographic documentation of corporate fixed assets (i.e. office furniture, office equipment, or artwork). Photo documentation can facilitate the processing of insurance claims. Maintaining an inventory of fixed assets also makes purchasing, repairing, and paying taxes on your assets easier.
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Document procedures and stop little disasters from becoming bigger disasters!
Most small companies rely on the knowledge and memory of their staff members to maintain and pass on office policies and procedures. They often recognize the folly in this, but who has the time to write a manual?
Has this ever happened in your office? The copier is broken and Mary, who usually calls the repair company, is in the middle of the ocean on a cruise ship. Stan was supposed to get filled in on whom to call for what before she left, but he had a big deadline and never go the information he needed. Sound familiar?
With the onslaught of viruses, this is an all-too-common occurrence. You just got a call from a friend because all work has stopped at her office. They got hit with a nasty virus and their network is down. "Did you get hit?" she asks. You don't know, because the person who knows about that stuff at your office is at the dentist getting a root canal. You know someone should check for a virus signature update, but how do you do that?
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