What should be the ideal Business Continuity Plan for life after Lock-down?

After a long lockdown due to COVID-19 spread, there will be some relaxation in the national lockdown that has been imposed in the country for over a period of time. Government is now focusing on livelihood, which is closely linked to the functioning of the economy, So now the main is is how to open your business, office, factories, workshops, etc.

All businesses will need to figure out how to restart their operations while considering the wellbeing and safety of their staff for dealing with the aftermath of lockdown and its implications.

During lockdown technology has enabled us to rethink the ways in which we can perform all fundamental activities during this crisis. During this phase you must have realised that lot of business online have survived and have started their operations. This move to upgrade business infrastructure from traditional data centres to the cloud, or a mix of on-premises servers shifted to virtualisation in cloud.

What Is your Business Post-Lock-down Plan?

The digital transformation of your business should be a top priority once you get back to work.

How can your company be made digital?

When you start your business operations again, make a budget and invest in digital upgradation. You have to get away with traditional way of doing things and equip your office with all the necessary technology and mindset that would be required for a digital transformation. 

You must think yourself that "What can you provide digitally” and upgrade your business accordingly. It doesn’t only have to be about your products or services, It can be the way you work, software you use for accounting, customer relation management, payroll, HR, etc and, how you communicate with your clients and vendors.

Identify your requirements

Now if you have decided to invest in going for a transformation, list out, what kind of tools will you need that will benefit your organisation the most. A good internet connection, staff access to servers, staff equipped with  laptops to work from home, communication platforms for Video Calls, virtual working environment, etc, would be some of your major requirements. 

You might already have few things in place already but you may want to redesign your business model and allow some people to work remotely. There are some free tools which can take care of these but when working in remote environment the security is the main thing to be taken care of. 

We at Rational Systems Private Limited can assist you in transforming or re-planning your business in one place from software, hardware, servers, cloud solutions, video conferencing software for communication, website designing, digital marketing. all in one place.