Business continuity management denotes the recovery of business or the service from an outage or disruption. The rapidity with which the service is restored depends on how well the business continuity was planned for manage during the downtime and subsequent recovery. Business continuity management is not just about having systems in place for backups and to fall back on. There needs to be a mindset change in the employees who operate these systems and hence what is needed is the ability to switch to the backup system or the offshore site resume operations within time. For this to happen the work force must be adequately trained to react swiftly in case of emergencies and load the backup system or rush to the offsite to ensure uninterrupted service. These abilities call for agility and speed in the workforce and this can be achieved only through mock drills and procedures that stimulate the actual disasters.

Managing business operations in current times is a big challenge. Apart from having to keep looking at the bottom lines and market shares, the management have another major are to be concerned about which is a continually keep assessing the risk to the business from all quarters and build disaster recovering plan in place.