2023 Volume 43 Pages 345-353
The Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Agency published guidelines for developing business continuity plan. They and some prefectural governments are promoting business continuity measures for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during disasters. Due to the full-fledged BCP requires time and budget costs, the focus of these projects is to promote 1st-step simple measures including cooperation among local offices.In this study, we embodied the 1st-step BCP simple sheet and a group work methodology. A demonstration experiment was conducted in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo. Finally, based on the demonstration, the methodology and its effects were discussed.
