GOSH wins business continuity award

IT | Kirsty Weakley | 31 Aug 2011

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity has won Team of the Year at the Business Continuity Awards.

The charity had developed its business continuity approach using IBM Business Continuity & Resiliency LITE to make sure that essential marketing and fundraising operations could continue through unexpected disruption such as power cuts.

The LITE package included coaching from IBM consultants and allowed the charity to pick and choose the components it required.

The charity was recognised at the awards ceremony in June for its “cohesive approach to business continuity as a team”.

Elizabeth Essex, head of operations decided in 2010 that the charity needed a business continuity solution because of the charity’s rapid growth over the last five years.

She added: “We wanted a business continuity plan that would grow with us – one that our team could easily understand and use themselves.”

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