BCP Services
Building Better BCP Plans
A Look at the Dangerous Status Quo
There's no question that strong, field-worthy business continuity plan development is anchored in four key areas: Business Impact Analysis/Risk Assessment, Business Recovery, IT Disaster Recovery, and Crisis Management. But they way you develop your plan is vital to its success.
You may ask yourself or consultants many questions along the way. How do I determine where I’m most at risk if business operations go down? Who decides what business functions are most critical to recovery? How fast will I be able to use my business continuity plan to mitigate loss after a disaster strikes?
This is the expensive, time-consuming, and outdated status quo process in our industry:
- Long, subjective surveys are administered with general questions about business functions, personnel, IT systems.
- Various personnel offer ideas about what departments are most important to recover (and guess who they think the most important ones are?).
- Data is dumped into Microsoft Word documents, a PDF file, or into bulky software that simply stores the information.
- A power outage – or worse – occurs, and employees mush fish through huge document plans and relay information company-wide to try and resume business operations.
Methodology & Software for Faster Business Continuity Plan Development
Strategic BCP's methodologies are built with individual organizations in mind, from small companies developing their first plans to global organizations with dozens of business units. We’ve drawn from over 100 years of experience in building field-worthy plans to develop algorithms for pinpointing risks and vulnerabilities and methodologies for determining what’s needed to recover business the fastest.
And our powerful ResilienceONE® BCP software helps you plan and implement what you really need — a relational, objective, analysis-driven planning system that develops a BCP that works before, during, and after a disaster.
- Understanding
the Business
We work with planners to complete an intuitive Operation Blueprint with step-by-step mapping capabilities that provides clear insight into typical business functions. Skipping to recovery functions is a dangerous status quo.
- No More Jargon-Based Surveys!
Our methodology resolves around answering 7 simple business-based questions that can help pinpoint critical business functions.
- Objective Impact Determination
Our Downtime Impact Analysis uses multiple measures to objectively prioritize business functions, IT resources, and people across your entire organization. The alternative: asking a business person when they need to have their business operations up and receiving the response "immediately."
- Data-Based Recovery (Not Document-Based)
Masses of information buried in documents are your enemy during a disaster. Finding what you need immediately during a crisis is critical. Strategic BCP develops "thin plans" that focus on providing you critical data to operate post-disaster, not documents.
- Robust People, Process and Technology Linkage
An exclusive feature of ResilienceONE® is its relational linkages that have been hailed as the best in the industry. You can easily see how each IT resource and person, down to a micro-level, supports your critical business activities.
- Going Beyond Business Continuity Planning
Strategic BCP unlocks the power of your data to provide critical insight into operational vulnerabilities, areas for re-engineering, risk management, cost optimization, asset management, and vendor compliance.
Next Step: How strong is your current BCP plan?