Business Continuity Management is an ongoing process that initially establishes a secure and resilient business environment and subsequently maintains it as your business evolves and changes.

Its overriding objective is to ensure that you can provide an acceptable level of service to clients, customers and other business partners regardless of any events or incidents that occur. Achieving this at reasonable cost and within reasonable timeframes are key requirements.

If you want to implement business continuity in a logical and effective manner, it requires a structured methodology that guides you step by step through each stage of the process. Based on more than fifteen years of practical experience, we recommend that it be tackled in four distinct phases.

These four phases are the building blocks that combine to deliver a total solution to Business Continuity Management. 

The analysis, assessment and plan design phase is the foundation stone on which all subsequent work depends. Once completed, work can begin on devising your organisation’s unique continuity strategy and developing the written continuity plan.  These two phases can and should be undertaken concurrently. Establishing a resilient business environment follows the strategy and plan development phases and ensures that all the good work you have done carries on into the future.

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