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Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

It will never happen to us...

Of course, that is what everyone hopes for, but recent natural events close to home in the UK and across the globe seem to suggest there is an increasing likelihood of company threatening events.

70 per cent of businesses that suffer a ‘discontinuity’ in trading will be forced to cease trading (~40% immediately post event and another ~30% within 2 years) according to a recent survey by the DTI.

A common misconception

There is a common misconception that preparing and maintaining a Business Continuity Plan is hugely expensive and only something done by large organisations. by taking a pragmatic and risk based approach, Derwen Consulting Limited is able to offer a cost effective service to aid in the development and maintenance of simple but effective plans - something that may well save your business.

Using our standards based Risk Assessment process we can work jointly to identify the critical business processes and services that need protecting. Once we have that information we will assess the potential risks against the critical processes/services and identify BCP actions that provide mitigation of these risks and develop a strategy, plan and incident response procedures.

The key to surviving any crisis is communication. far too many plans go into great detail about how to manage relatively unknown events. We will not waste time on such activities and focus on how the right communication framework will provide protection from a huge variety of potentially damaging incidents.

Call us on +44(0)1624 661884 or email bcp@derwen-consulting.com for further information on our BCP Services.

Our Step by Step Approach

Risk Evaluation & Control
Business Impact Analysis
Business Continuity Strategy
Incident Response Procedures
Communications Co-ordination
Plan development
Plan Testing & Maintenance
Awareness & Training

Some Business Benefits

Protection of shareholder value
Reducing exposure to particular risks
Improved understanding of the business
Operational resilience
Compliance issues can be identified
Vital records can be maintained and protected
Protection of physical and knowledge
Preservation of markets by ensuring continuity of supply
Avoidance of liability actions

Our approach is based on templates developed in-house for specific use with Small to Medium sized organisations. This enables us to quickly progress and develop the plans, keeping cost to a minimum, but delivering value, risk mitigation and regulatory compliance where applicable to your organisation.

We are also able to provide guidance on developing full ITIL based IT Service Continuity Management solutions

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