When disaster strikes, whether natural or manmade, can your organization recover quickly and seamlessly? Do you have a plan in place to ensure that you don’t lose any critical data? Are your people prepared? A disaster includes any unplanned business outage of sufficient duration to cause unacceptable loss to an organization or to drive the timed redeployment of limited resources. Losses can be tangible such as revenue losses, increased costs and contractual penalties, as well as intangible such as detrimental impacts to goodwill and public perception. Accenture helps businesses and governments the world over to prepare for, and recover from, disasters; enabling them to continue on their path to high performance without sacrificing losses to customers and citizens. The Accenture approach embeds business continuity and disaster recovery planning strategies, policies and decision making within the organization. This ensures that disaster recovery is not a one-off activity, but an ongoing management process. While assessing risk, the approach focuses on tangible business losses as well as intangible business impacts such as regulatory exposure and shareholder confidence. In this way, appropriate mitigation strategies are defined for a broad range of assets including information technology, buildings, people and business processes, to name a few. Related Links
 Podcast: IT Disaster: It’s Not a Matter of If—It’s a Matter of When
Listen to Accenture’s Gil Brodnitz as he discusses how the current business climate has resulted in rising numbers of IT disasters. Brodnitz shares Accenture’s seven-step approach to improving IT disaster recovery. To learn about more Accenture Services, sign up for My Outlook, your single e-mail source for all of Accenture's latest ideas and innovation, personalized specifically to your business interests and the industry issues you face. Next: Why Accenture |