Could your firm recover from a lightning strike?

Few things can be more painful than the destruction of something you have built and nurtured.

The task now facing Wellington Financial Management’s founder and managing director Paul Simpson, after the firm’s office burnt down on Tuesday night following a lightning strike, puts a sobering perspective on the difficulties experienced by many small businesses.

But it could have been much worse - thankfully Wellington had robust data backup procedures in place and uses the web-based Intelliflo software for client records, and had developed a disaster recovery plan with SimplyBiz, so the team are able to continue trading from Simpson’s home until new offices can be found.

Could your firm recover from an event like this? And what steps should business owners take to ensure that theirs could too – how, for example, do you go about moving client records out of the filing cabinet and on to a remote server?