{"id":1680,"date":"2020-09-15T08:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serengeti.pepwebdigital.hr\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2021-01-05T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:38:35","slug":"business-continuity-you-hear-it-a-lot-during-covid-but-its-much-bigger-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/business\/business-continuity-you-hear-it-a-lot-during-covid-but-its-much-bigger-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Business continuity: You hear it a lot during COVID, but it's much bigger than that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eplus-YjgJnP wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You hear these words a lot recently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-C8Hc25 wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the articles are in the context of COVID pandemic, and \u201cbusiness continuity\u201d means that you need to keep the lights on, you need to keep paying people with hopefully not too many layoffs, you need to find new revenue streams, and you need to make sure projects are done on-time. And you need to do all this with maybe your team in different places, and accomplishing of it on video calls or conference calls or over a channel like Slack or Discord. That\u2019s what it means right now to most people, and probably deep into 2021 too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"eplus-T6HKrI wp-block-heading\">What does \u201cbusiness continuity\u201d mean in more normal, general times?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-91LCvR wp-block-paragraph\">It refers to the idea of running your business successfully, honestly. That has a lot of different aspects, but it means:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"eplus-FbgpxD wp-block-list eplus-styles-uid-6bc4a2\"><li>Good products<\/li><li>Good products launched on time<\/li><li>Good CSAT scores (customer satisfaction)<\/li><li>Recurring revenue from happy customers<\/li><li>Employees that like working there and feel invested<\/li><li>Low turnover of employees because they like working there<\/li><li>Sales goals being met<\/li><li>Marketing and sales working together well<\/li><li>Operations and logistical goals being met<\/li><li>Executives and senior leaders explaining the strategy and the priorities throughout the year<\/li><li>Payroll being met<\/li><li>Growth every year\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-UFLKIf wp-block-paragraph\">If you are doing the majority of these things during \u201cnormal\u201d times, that is \u201cbusiness continuity.\u201d It means that year-over-year, both your employees and your customers\/clients know what to expect from you. It\u2019s a consistent experience. 2020 is an outlier year for many businesses, so employees (who often have to work from home) and clients (who are adjusting their own priorities and timelines) don\u2019t necessarily expect the same consistency they did in 2018, 2019, etc. They still want you to deliver for them, but we all know 2020 is a different year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-kx9fhV wp-block-paragraph\">More generally and in more sane years, the above bullet points are what \u201cbusiness continuity\u201d means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"eplus-Z8ZRGg wp-block-heading\">So how does software development outsourcing play into all this about business continuity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-8phcrA wp-block-paragraph\">In a few different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-gKvwtZ wp-block-paragraph\">Some people believe that if you want continuity, you cannot outsource core functions like software development, because you need a dedicated internal team focusing on that, and a team where the senior leaders know them and feel comfortable interacting with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-K3A5lJ wp-block-paragraph\">That can be true, but the problem becomes when business pivots or you need to get a new product or launch-ready, and your team:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"eplus-oxB3Mh wp-block-list eplus-styles-uid-438bef\"><li>Has too much going on<\/li><li>Lacks\u00a0<a href=\"\/de\/expertise\/\">the expertise<\/a>\u00a0to get it done<\/li><li>Can get it done, but it will take a very long time<\/li><li>Can get it done, but it will be very costly<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-ekCJfw wp-block-paragraph\">In any of these situations, you need to outsource some or all of the development process to ensure business continuity -- and that is true whether or not we are in COVID.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-O1oERE wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/de\/about\/case-studies-and-client-testimonials\/knapp-flexibility-and-stability-in-logistics-industry\/\">Look at one client example.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-SDE1xa wp-block-paragraph\">Companies have become more excited to outsource certain functions over the past 10-15 years because they want a mix of cost and value, and they want to locate the relevant expertise to get them launched on-time and with minimal disruptions and update cycles. They want agile, automated processes for both value-creation and cost containment, and that\u2019s why software development outsourcing has become as popular as it has. It doesn\u2019t hinder business continuity. It ensures it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-ZQPtnE wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Any questions? Let us know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"button-filled-CTA  has-text-align-center eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-7dcdae wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/kontakt\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/contact\/\">Kontaktieren Sie uns<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the articles are in the context of COVID pandemic, and \u201cbusiness continuity\u201d means that you need to keep the lights on, you need to keep paying people with hopefully not too many layoffs, you need to find new revenue streams, and you need to make sure projects are done on-time...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":10,"label":"Business"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/cdn.shortpixel.ai\/spai\/q_glossy+ret_img+to_auto\/serengetitech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/domino-effect-continuity.jpg",992,620,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Kris","author_link":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/author\/kristianpepwebdigital-hr\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":10,"name":"Business","slug":"business","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Business - blog section dedicated to business topics, both traditional ones and trends.","parent":0,"count":187,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":10,"category_count":187,"category_description":"Business - blog section dedicated to business topics, both traditional ones and trends.","cat_name":"Business","category_nicename":"business","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}