To assess your business's capability to respond to business continuity challenges, our team performs a high-level review of your business including its mission and objectives, geographic/climatic/political environment, the methods and procedures used to do business.
Following this initial review, our team determines key executive processes and the supporting operations organization. Based on this analysis, we define a high-level business model that outlines the key processes, organizational interactions and information exchange requirements across the enterprise. In each of the focused areas, we inventory mission-critical assets, programs, and operations/distribution systems.
Disasters can occur from a variety of sources. Our team initiates disaster threat scenario planning for the following categories of disasters:
After conducting this threat analysis, we quantify the financial impacts of the disaster itself, the cost of mitigation, and the price of exposure to the organization. These impacts are analyzed and rated across five key business areas for our Real-Time Business Continuity (RTBC) Assessment:
Based on our RTBC Assessment, your senior management can take steps to initiate readiness planning across your organization. Outcomes of our work include executive succession plans, improved insurance coverage, downstream vendor vulnerability hardening, personnel policy and procedures and chain of command and communications documentation.
While each client has different challenges and requirements, we apply the same structured RTBC Assessment approach to assessing potential security breaches including those of Information Technology/telecom, HR policies, contract management policies, financial record management, copyright and patent right protection policies, insurance coverage policies, document management, and facilities surveillance and operations management.
The result of our work is a business continuity preparedness report card for your organization with a quantification of potential risk and prioritized recommendations for risk management and approaches for mitigation. Our RTBC Assessment can help your organization weigh the value of preventive measures, contingency and back-up planning and repair readiness, on a prioritized basis.