Business Continuity Services
Potsford Services Ltd (PSL) are able to offer a range of consultancy services from fully certified members of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI).
Simple workshop style sessions are used to perform a BCM Health Check. This provides an ideal starting point for organisations, both large and small, to identify the strategy options for BCM implementation.
After this stage PSL can offer a range of services to support a programme across most of the disciplines of BCM identified in BS 25999. These services will support an organisation wishing to introduce a BCMS and ultimately achieve certification against the standard (BS 25999).
Services across the BCM disciplines: -
- Initial brief assessment (Health Check) with interview(s) and or workshop. A summary report is delivered containing: -
- Current maturity of BCM in the organisation
- BCM needs analysis for the organisation
- Perceived threats
- Key vulnerabilities
- Critical resources
- Opportunities for mitigation
- Recommendations for a programme of work
- Business understanding through enterprise modelling comprising: -
- Business strategic goals
- Customer types and products
- Main business processes
- Key resources : -
- Systems and Telecoms
- People
- Premises (locations and buildings)
- Logistics
- Suppliers and supplies
- Business organisation
- And the interrelationship of these entities
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and risk identification by :-
- Analysis of the enterprise model
- Interviews
- Questionnaires (see products)
- Identification of mitigation measures
- Effectiveness of mitigation
- Risk and impact report
- Address mitigation with Contingency Plans (BCP)
- Recovery organisation design
- IT DR design (systems and processes)
- Telecoms DR plans
- Operational recovery plans
- Restoration (to normal) plans
- Communications plans
- Exercise design, planning and facilitation
- Analysis of mitigation effectiveness against enterprise model
