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DISASTER RECOVERY/BUSINESS CONTINUITY: Plan to stay calm in a crisis

By Alan Cane

Published: April 18 2007 10:10 | Last updated: April 18 2007 10:10

It’s the bombs and the Buncefields that make the news, but most threats to a business’s survival are of a more humdrum nature.

The statistic is well known but no less shocking for that: 80 per cent of businesses that suffer a major disruption fail within 18 months, as their customers go elsewhere.

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