The importance of prevention
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how important correct prevention and risk management is, especially in a sensitive field such as public health, to ensure the formal and organized management of a crisis or event that could become catastrophic.
For example, the discontinuity of supply chain caused by any predictable or unpredictable event is certainly an element of very high criticality, which can easily lead to a crisis, that is "an event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders” and that determines "a transformation process in which the current system can no longer be maintained".
Therefore, Business Continuity Management must play a fundamental role in the more general Risk Management activities, providing tools for the assessment of business impacts (Business Impact Analysis), defining strategic and operational plans for maintaining business continuity (Business Continuity Plan) which are able to determine technical and operational requirements for the adoption of adequate technologies and support methodologies.
Where a crisis is faced, it is essential to be provided with a specific Crisis Management plan, namely a global process previously defined, approved and verified, that will be applied during and after the crisis itself, with the support of specific enabling technologies.