Analysys Mason has the expertise and experience, together with the tools and templates to ensure that clients receive the most appropriate business continuity solution delivered in both a timely and cost effective manner.
Different companies vary in their willingness to accept risk or to spend money up front either to reduce risk or to help speed up recovery from impact:
- We can assist by developing a range of alternative scenarios for consideration, with an indication of cost.
- This may include a ‘roadmap’, where the strategy may be to build up BCP capability from a basic level to more sophisticated solutions and plans.
Clearly defining a company’s mission critical activities (MCAs), the potential impact if the capability is lost, and other essential factors such as the time for recovery, allows management to consider alternative continuity strategies that will maintain MCAs at an acceptable level following a service affecting impact.
BCP must address all plausible scenarios – often the most simple, affordable solutions are best and easiest to put in place. Our BCP and disaster recovery planning is informed by a strategy that reflects constraints on the client organisation, e.g. financial, cultural/political, time and available resource.
We can assist our clients to develop BCP that matches their operation’s dependency and risk profile, maintaining above all the need for realistic and affordable solutions. Part of the business continuity management (BCM) strategy involves understanding the client’s appetite for risk (how much risk of failure the organisation is willing to tolerate), and how this can be matched by tailored risk reduction programmes and risk transfer, e.g. through insurance or outsourced service provision with exacting SLAs.
