Business continuity: what happens if your key person or system disappears tomorrow?

Most small businesses depend on a few people and systems. A simple continuity plan keeps you running when one of them fails.

Map your critical points

• People: who is the only one who knows how to do payroll, access the bank or file returns?
• Systems: what happens if your accounting system or e-invoicing stops?
• Suppliers and customers: what if your main supplier or customer stops?
• Cash: how many months could you cover fixed costs with no income?

Simple measures

1. 1Document key processes in short written steps.
2. 2Give a second person access to the bank, ZATCA and government portals, with proper authorisation.
3. 3Back up data outside your main system and test restoring it.
4. 4Keep a cash reserve that covers several months of fixed costs.
5. 5Diversify suppliers and customers where you can.

Keep it alive

Review the plan once a year, and after any incident.

Our risk management service helps you build a risk register and a practical continuity plan.