Business continuity management aims to minimise the impact of a disruption by proactively planning the steps that an organisation or business unit will take to return to normal operations.
This involves:
- Analysing potential disruptions, rating their risks, and estimating impacts.
- Proactively considering gaps, dependencies, and resourcing.
- Determining the capability and resourcing to respond to the disruptions and restore critical business functions.
- Considering how to reduce operational downtime and financial impacts.
- Maintaining stakeholder relationships and confidence in the organisation.
What are the elements of Business Continuity Management?
What is a business continuity plan?
A business continuity plan is a documented contingency plan that details how an organisation will respond to a disruptive event, while continuing to deliver critical business functions and services within acceptable levels.
What are critical business functions and services?
They are functions and services where:
- The organisation would fail to achieve key objectives if it is unavailable.
- The organisation would breach legislative duties if it is unavailable,
- Key stakeholders or the community would consider it unacceptable if the services was unavailable.
How do you define critical timeframes?
Our Business Continuity Planning services
- Independent reviews of business continuity planning and enterprise risk
- Development and documentation of business continuity plans
- Mapping of enterprise risks
- Identification and mapping of key service delivery and business processes
- Facilitation of business continuity planning workshops
- Development of remediations and controls
- Reviews and development of business continuity management frameworks
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