Many organisations face specific known challenges: the presence of hazardous industries, flood risks and so on. Others may have more general risk exposure, and from May 2006 all local authorities have the added responsibility of raising awareness and encouraging best practice in their locales. However, many organisations lack the internal resource or bandwidth to develop appropriate plans and question them objectively.

Socitm Consulting provides an end-to-end business continuity consultancy service. We can produce a business continuity strategy or objectively assess the suitability of an existing one in the light of current best practice. Possible elements include:

• High-level gap analysis to identify the strategic issues
• Risk/threat assessment
• Resource vulnerability assessment
• Documenting mission-critical processes and functions, key dependencies, stakeholder expectations etc.
• Emergency response and incident/crisis management plans
• Planning implementation, maintenance, exercising and “Crisis Communications”
• Freedom of Information Act implications

Our service is designed to address “denial of service” issues rather than individual threats, and draws together Information Security and Business Continuity to provide a firm foundation for enterprise risk management and achieving resilient operations. Rather than focusing narrowly on ICT, we approach business continuity/disaster recovery from a business-centric perspective. Our consultants are “management” consultants first, “technical” consultants second, and have direct experience of real incidents across the threat spectrum. 

Our business continuity experts work alongside consultants that understand the business in detail, thus ensuring that your plans will cope with the constant changes implicit in the transformation agenda.

If you would like to discuss how we may be able to help you in this area, please call us on 0845 450 0904, email consulting@socitm.gov.uk or use our online enquiry form.