Business Continuity Planning - The business Impact Analysis
Business Continuity Planning is a vital component of an ongoing enterprise. Regulatory emphasis on sound continuity planning is high. Too often organizations have developed plans that, when a significant disruption occurred, did not meet there needs. In the final analysis of those failures the most outstanding fault of the programs were insufficient identification of critical business processes and their components. Our program begins at the basics and builds a solid business contintuity analytical foundation.
- Total business unit involvement - that involves analysis of each business process at the granular
level - we take care to ensure that all components of each business
process are identified. We utilized customized survey forms, provide
training and work hands on with all business units and appropriate staff.
- Environmental threat analysis - We research your area for all
major environmental risks. It is customized to your operational
area. This information is key to developing an appropriate recovery
strategy based on the probability and potential impact of the event.
- Recovery Time
Objective(RTO) - is a 3 letter word subject to a lot of interpretation. Our
analysis of recovery time objectives is based on the facts, not desire. We
identify work around processes, critical process times and analyze how
long the process can be interrupted without adversely affecting
operations.We focus on critical processes identified by senior management
or agreed upon criteria.
- What if - We run critical threat scenarios on critical business processes. The
result provide an analysis of financial and operational impact based on
occurrence of the most relevant threats that could occur to your
organization. The end result provides a risk focused approach to building
effective business continuity programs.
- Reports - The reports provides all you need to build your continutiy
strategy. You can conifgure a recovery plan for critical processes
that ensures you are allocating recovery resources appropriately as well
as cost effectively. All of our reports meet appropriate regulatory
guidelines and are based upon industry based practices
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