Business Continuity Management Consultancy

Today's business environments demand that organisations address the issue of business continuity management in order to increase the likelihood of survival following any disruptive event. This is an important aspect that often cuts across many functional areas and places strain on organisation's resources.

Additionally, it is also clear that the majority of organisations have a high reliance on IT infrastructures that provide full functionality during operational use. It would be very difficult to replace IT systems with manual procedures in the event of system failure, hence the need for BCM and Disaster Recovery.

Benefits of BCM

The benefits of applying BCM strategies are manifold and include:

  • Ensuring organisations can quickly and effectively deal with significant business disruption.
  • Minimising revenue loss, enabling organisations to maintain market share and ensure continued investor or stakeholder confidence.
  • Establishing appropriate management practices and good corporate governance.
  • Proactively handling potential risks and protecting the organisation's brand and reputation
  • Promoting due diligence and an overall awareness of the potential risks profile
  • Building and documenting an overall view of the organisation thus becoming more focused and efficient.
  • Making the organisation more resilient and capable of serving clients during a crisis thereby, promoting confidence among clients.
  • Lowering insurance costs due to smaller claims and reduced premiums.

The BCM Lifecycle

bcm lifecycle

The diagram shows the major components of the BCM lifecycle as defined by the BCI and other world class continuity standards

The stages are defined as:

  • Stage 1: Understanding the business: Using business impact and risk assessments to identify critical deliverables, evaluate recovery priorities and assess the risks that could lead to a disruption to service delivery.
  • Stage 2: BCM strategies: Identifying the alternative strategies available to mitigate loss and assessing their potential effectiveness in maintaining the organisation's ability to deliver critical functions.
  • Stage 3: Developing and implementing a BCM response: Developing the response to challenges, and the plans underpinning the response.
  • Stage 4: Establishing a BCM culture: Ensuring a continuity culture is embedded in the organisation by raising awareness throughout the organisation and its key stakeholders, and offering training to key staff on BCM issues.
  • Stage 5: Maintaining and auditing BCM: Ensuring plans are fit for purpose, kept up to date and quality assured.

All the above bound together with effective programme and project management principles

Our services are focused on providing end-to-end, comprehensive business continuity management including risk management, business impact analysis, business continuity planning, crisis management planning, training, testing, audit and the provision of IT and business recovery facilities.

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