Business Continuity Consulting Services
Designed for the needs of SME organisations
Our business continuity roadmap underpins the delivery of our business continuity consulting service, guiding our clients through each stage of business continuity plan development. providing tools, advice & support - with several options for choosing supporting consulting services designed to create world-class, compliant business continuity plans as well as leaving our client organisations with improved business continuity capability and expertise.
RiskCentric provide a unique blend of integrated business continuity consulting and support services to support small to medium size organisations. Our approach is based on tailoring the level of help and guidance you require to develop a business continuity plan or re-design an existing plan that's become outdated or may have failed an audit. Our approach is based around developing business continuity plans and capabilities in a supported environment that fits with your needs and budget.
We offer two distinct, but complimentary services
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Providing a world-class business continuity plan template and tools, proven to meet the most rigorous standards, is easy to maintain and includes guidance for the BC development process and access to a Business Continuity help desk manned by expert business continuity consultants to provide remote help, support and feedback when required.
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Our Continuity Coach service is available to provide support, feedback and facilitation sessions at key stages in the business continuity plan development process. This approach is completely tailored to your needs providing business continuity consultancy advice and support when needed. These are delivered as live, online sessions with an experienced consultant assigned to the team responsible for developing your organisations business continuity plan.
Both approaches provide a superior result at significantly reduced cost when compared to traditional service offerings of consulting assignments, training courses and templates and all offer significant advantages compared to traditional "day-rate" consultancy or per-participant pricing models:
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We build your skills and expertise by supporting and mentoring your team through the business continuity development process. so when the project is delivered you not only have the plan, you'll have the expertise within your organisation to take it forward
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Your business continuity plan development team will learn by doing (with support if needed). This is far superior to classroom based training - the team learns by doing and receives guidance at the exact point and time needed.
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Our templates are easy to use and based on standard Microsoft office tools and the included business continuity help desk ensures that you are not on your own once you have downloaded them
These services are designed to support you all the way through the business continuity plan development process - steering your team towards success
Continuity Coach
The Continuity Coach service provides a delivery approach for business continuity consulting services specifically specifically designed for the needs of SME organisations. Our proven business continuity plan toolkit and support is complimented with a "wrap-around" of an onsite "kick-off" meeting for team familiarisation plus scheduled review, feedback and support sessions to ensure that the team tasked with implementing the business continuity plan have a support framework around them for the duration of the project. This option works well for organisations that are looking a more formalised structure for the delivery of support guidance during their business continuity plan development - but who don't want to commit to a full-time consultant on the project. If you would like to discuss your needs in more detail - contact us using the link below and we'll be in touch to arrange a mutually convenient time to understand your needs, budget and timing
How does Continuity Coach Work?
The Continuity Coach service provides cost effective, high quality business continuity and incident management services to SME organisations. It combines skills development, a business continuity plan development toolkit and advisory services, enablig organisations to "learn by doing" whilst using a structured toolkit supported by expert advice at key stages of business continuity plan development. This approach significantly reduces the costs of traditional "day-rate" consultancy without compromising quality. Our delivery process is summarised below:
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To avoid any unnecessary re-work, we conduct a short review of any plans and risk assessments already in place to determine if any of this previous work can be re-used.
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We then deliver an introductory workshop for all participants in the project to provide an overview of the process and the business continuity plan development toolkit defined in our Business Continuity Roadmap This is normally performed in person at the client site.
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At the commencement each stage of the roadmap “kick-off” meeting is held to introduce development considerations and any relevant tools within the toolkit to assist with completion.
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An end of stage meeting with each participant to walkthrough the outcome of their work, on request.
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On completion of overall plan development, we conduct a facilitated plan walkthrough to evaluate plans under a range of incident scenarios.
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The final stage of development is the development of a business continuity management framework (often referred to as “the BCMS” – the business continuity management system) which supports the ongoing maintenance of the business continuity plan. This is a narrative style document produced primarily for third party review, which describes the operation of the organisations BCMS. The content of this document is designed to demonstrate that “due process” was followed in development and maintenance of the BC Plan. It is also cross-referenced to the ISO 22301 standard to confirm that all aspects of business continuity are compliant with the relevant clauses of the standard and, by default, with the majority of recognised business continuity frameworks
RiskCentric | Business Continuity Specialists | Cambridge, United Kingdom | enquiries@riskcentric.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1353 667374