BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is about protecting your people and your business from the effects of dangerous or disruptive incidents. It’s about preparing to deal with disasters, reacting immediately & effectively with well-defined procedures if disaster does strike – Emergency Response. It’s about making and implementing plans for coping with disruptive events of all kinds and put the business back on some sort of an even keel – Incident Management. It’s about thinking through the continuity threats when structuring your business strategy, major programmes and infrastructure - Business Resilience; and being ready and prepared to rebuild the business (fundamentally if necessary) should a serious incident occur – Business Recovery. BCM won’t be top of anyone’s agenda right now, but you can be sure that after a serious incident has occurred loud voices will ask: where are the preparations? and how did we let this happen?
MMA can help you with all aspects of BCM:
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setting out a BCM Policy and Strategy in line with best practice (BS25999)
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building understanding of the essential wherewithal of your company’s profitability
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helping you identify the threats to your personnel, assets and profitability drivers
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facilitating ‘business impact analysis’ to understand the significance of these threats and what more can be done to protect against them/make preparations for their possible occurrence
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building resilience to such threats at all levels of your business: from its top-
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creating detailed procedures suitable for coping with dangerous or disruptive incidents
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establishing the tiered Gold/Silver/Bronze organisation, roles, responsibilities, contingency planning, contacts and other infrastructure needed to implement the procedures – but without this becoming a major cost driver for your business
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charting out how your business may recover from a serious disruption, attaining a new equilibrium that is optimal in the post-
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training your personnel in respect of all aspects of the above
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facilitating BCM Exercises to build confidence in the effectiveness of your BCM measures and to identify areas for improvement
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or we can audit/critique/help improve your existing BCM implementation.
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You may have a well-developed BCM process that needs optimisation in some areas, or you may have a long way to go in building an effective system and need help. Please call us regarding your BCM needs, large or small.
MMA has the expertise and experience to assist you at each stage of the BCM process. MMA won’t be there when an incident occurs: however we can apply our experience and our insight to helping you to make your business resilient to the threats and help you be prepared to manage disruption as and when it arises - and to be confident that you have a sound system in place to do so.
Further details of Business Continuity Management
Emergency Response - Incident Management - Business Resilience/Recovery
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