business continuity
How prepared your organisation is, will determine how quickly you can recover and get back to business. Luck is not an option.
Pandemic Planning
Pandemics occur more often than you may think. Not only will mass-absenteeism and remote-working impact your business operations, but your market will fundamentally change. If you want to prepare your organisation to adapt, survive and thrive during pandemic events, we can help.
reviews of business continuity systems
If you’ve already got an established business continuity management system, or if your systems haven’t been refreshed for a while, it may be time to review them to see where thing could be improved or streamlined.
Policy & Programme - Design & Implementation
If you’re looking to truly embed business continuity management systems into your organisations approach to risk management, it starts at the top. We can help you establish your policy and programme to drive continuity through your organisation.
Business Impact Analysis
A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is the foundation of business continuity planning. The BIA provides an examination of your business-as-usual practices with a view to determining the exact nature and type of continuity plan you need.
Business Continuity Planning
Business continuity planning is about front-loading the decisions you will make in times of crisis. Having a written BCP is good, but engaging with your team to determine how you’ll respond as an organisation is crucial. As the saying goes: It’s not the plan, it’s the planning.
By facilitating planning sessions with your team, we can develop action plans which are calls to action, that you can open and use during an event.
Crisis Management Planning
Your BCP may cover predictable scenarios, but what about the unpredictable events? What about the highly complex situations? Having a crisis management plan enables rapid action and evaluation of decision, to help lead your team through ‘black swan’ events and back to business as usual.
Training Design and delivery
Improving your people’s capability to respond to disruptions is a key element your organisational resilience. Training on the using your BCP makes sure that the look, feel and use of the document makes sense for those who will use it in a high-pressure situation.
Customised training sessions will take participants through scenarios in your BCP to ensure they know what the plans are, the organisation’s priorities, and what resources will be required. It’s a great opportunity to make sure participants are ready to go when they need to be.
Tailored crisis management training can help your leadership team come to grips with continuity scenarios, and how emergencies and crisis require different modes of leadership and decision making.
Coaching
Are you a new business continuity practitioner? Some guidance, support and peer review can help you navigate embedding a continuity programme in your organisation.
exercise design & delivery
Exercises are essential to ensure your BCP is effective and fit-for-purpose. They are also vital educational sessions, providing excellent opportunities for leaders to practice decision-making under crisis conditions and preparing themselves for a range of scenarios. Test your plan, exercise your people.
Exercises take on different shapes and sizes. The differences are reflected in the level of detail required and preparation time, and of course the delivery time.