Business Contingency Planning
We will help you deliver your business continuity plan (BCP) within the agreed parameters of resources, costs, schedule and quality.
The process will involve gaining an understanding of your business and your environment, agreeing the scope of activities and obtaining senior management commitment by way of formalising a BCP budget.
We will then produce a quality plan signed off by Senior Management which will identify the critical path, summary of the project risks, project organisation, time scales, key milestones, project review points and change control mechanism.
Risk Analysis
We will help you to identify the risks that may adversely affect your ability to continue providing your services following a significant disruption. We will assess each risk in terms of their impact to the organisation and the probability of it occurring. We will review your physical security, logical security, single points of failure and off site storage programme and gather data by way of staff interviews and/ or facilitated workshops.
We shall than produce a risk review report which will outline the risk areas identified and recommendations which when implemented will minimise the potential risk and reduce any impact to your organisation.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
We will help you to determine your critical business processes and will determine the interdependencies between these and other parts of your organisation.
Impact will than be considered both in quantitative terms of monetary loss or exposure and qualitative terms such as the ability to deliver, track critical information, any legal and regulatory issues.
We shall than produce a detailed report identifying the critical processes and the underlying systems and business processes that support them.
Recovery Strategy
We will help you formulate a recovery strategy for your critical processes based on your business impact analysis. Before establishing a recovery strategy, for each of the critical processes, we will take into account, the types of recovery options available , results of the BIA (includes recovery time frame) , cost benefit analysis for suitable options, review viability and effectiveness of existing recovery arrangements and commitment of senior management.
We shall than produce a report outlining a summary of the resource requirements, comparison of alternatives, recommended alternatives and the timetable, estimated resources and action steps required to implement the recommended alternatives.
Plan Development
We will develop the business continuity plan to assist in the delivery of an efficient and timely recovery of your business following a business interruption or disaster. This will involve pulling together all the information from the BIA and the recovery strategy phase of the project. The detailed plan will comprise three key sections:
- Emergency response - Stabilise the incident
- Crisis Management - Mitigate or reduce the effects of a crisis
- Business Recovery - To full recovery
In addition to the three key sections, the plan will also contain detailed procedures and tasks required to recover the critical processes within the agreed recovery time frame. Once the plan is developed and implemented, the organisation will have several benefits including: * Compliance with legal and regulatory * Robust Health & Safety * Positive public image * Protect human life, environment, company assets * Protect interests of all stakeholders including customers, employees, shareholders and suppliers; * Resilience against competition * Cost-effective insurance and risk management practices.
Plan Exercising and Maintenance
It is essential that once the plan is developed it is tested, regularly reviewed and maintained to ensure that it remains valid and current at all times.
Emergency Response Plan
We can help you to develop and incorporate site-specific emergency response procedures within the BCP or implement a standalone emergency response plan. Some of the specific site related procedures can, for example, include evacuation, fire, medical, confined space rescue, workplace violence, natural hazards, utility hazards, environmental, chemical spillage, kidnap/ hostage, civil disturbance.
The final emergency response plan will include policies, site-specific procedures, roles and responsibilities needed to stabilise the incident.
Crisis Management Plan
We will develop an effective crisis management plan, which will help senior management make difficult decisions more effectively during any crisis. We will put in place appropriate communication procedures for all stakeholders including customers, media, employee, suppliers, shareholders, and local authorities.
By having an effective plan, you will be able to prevent an incident escalating to a major crisis, minimise the impact and protect your assets.
Assurance – BS25999
This will help you to identify significant exposures or risks that may increase the likelihood of an interruption. We will also ascertain if the current continuity planning arrangements meets your needs. We will use best practice methodology (BS25999), the single recognised benchmark in the UK against which business continuity can be evaluated. Once we have audited the plan, we will produce a detailed report, which will identify areas that need to be improved along with
Business Continuity Advice
Our team of highly trained business continuity consultants are able to provide advice on all aspects of business continuity planning.
