Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Unit 4: Operating a Small Business Effectively from your course textbook. Operating a business for success requires many activities, and a mandatory activity is creating, testing, and maintaining a comprehensive business continuity plan. Regardless of the size of the business, management must be prepared to effectively cope with business disruptions. Failure to do so might end the business.

Perform a web search, as well as a search in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library, for information about small business continuity planning. Then, address the following in your discussion post:

• Find a template that appeals to you and provide a link to the template so others may view and critique the template.
• Critique the template as a tool appropriate for proposing preventive and remedial actions for business interruptions common to the area in which you might operate, for example, chronic flooding.
• Estimate how often to test your business continuity plan.
  • Defend your estimate.
• Critique templates and test frequency estimates provided by two of your colleagues.

Offer a link to a video or an article that provides additional information business continuity planning an entrepreneur might find informative.