July 10, 2006—Continuity Central recently conducted a survey aimed at discovering whether the July 7, 2005 attacks in London had a lasting impact on business continuity practices. Representatives from 161 businesses responded, with 76.4 percent having more than 500 employees.
Only 5 percent of respondents reported that they do not have a current business continuity plan. The remaining 95 percent all do. However, some of these are fairly recent developments, with 12.5 percent saying that they developed their business continuity plan after the events of July 7th 2005.
A high number of respondents had to use either all of part of their business continuity plan on July 7, 2005, the survey found. Overall, 45 percent of those reporting that they had a BCP in place activated elements of their plan and it seems that in most cases the business continuity plan performed very well. And 90 percent of respondents who had used their plan reported that they were either ‘very pleased’ (35 percent) or ‘somewhat pleased’ (55 percent) with the effectiveness of the business continuity plan. Only 9 percent were ‘somewhat dissatisfied’ and just 1 percent were ‘very dissatisfied’ with its effectiveness.
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—Source: Continuity Central
