Business Continuity Management (BCM) seeks to safeguard an organisations key stakeholder interests, reputation, brand and value creating activities through the implementation of a framework of organizational resilience to effectively prepare and respond to potential risks to the organization. Essentially, it aims to allow the organization to "take a licking and keep on ticking". When BCM is fully integrated, organisations will step by step turn their vulnerabilities to competitive advantages.

Therefore our goal is to develop our clients' abilities to reach and exceed their objectives through actively managing their risks and crisis situations.

Don't plan for everything - instead plan for anything

We will give you the methods and tools to reshape your organizational Body Mass Index (BMI) to be fit for purpose. Through analysis we identify the critical resources, the muscles you need, and also where you have less important resources. With this organisational understanding clients can reshape their resource set-up to be fit for purpose, e.g. cost reduced for removed surplus resources and critical resources strengthened.

However, organisations’ who slim before knowing which resources are critical will soon find themselves in an anorectic state where vital functions don’t operate as they should.

International Expertise

Our staff is engaged in developing and influencing the BCM domain through active involvement in development of national and international standards such as the forthcoming ISO 22301 Preparedness and Continuity Management System – Requirements.

We stay on the edge of the development to provide knowledge and know-how to your advantage.

5G Business Continuity offers a range of consulting services that assist organizations in developing pivotal continuity capabilities that safeguards the interests of their key stakeholders, by managing to build resilience and the capability for effective responses to potential impacts that may threaten the organization.

Service offering includes

BCM Empowering - Training packages for Executives, Implementers, and Operational staff enabling individuals to understand and fulfill their role from the very start to the controlled management of business continuity. Trainings range from topic introductions to full toolbox trainings for implementers including change management and facilitation techniques.

BCM Institutionalization - Full implementation support of Business Continuity Management Programs from idea until BCM being a natural component of daily business management.

Interim Management – When organizations need to kick-start a BCM capability 5G can take the leading role and then later coach end mentor managers and staff stepping in to the job. Our experience from having implemented BCM through the entire implementation life cycle in enterprise organizations position us among the very few in the world that can give instrumental guidance through the complete journey.

Plan Exercise & Validation – To ensure that supporting plans and procedures are correct and that people capabilities are on expected levels.

Risk Assessment – To understand how vulnerable critical resources are.

Business Impact Analysis - To identify the likely effect upon your Organization of the unexpected loss or disruption of the key processes or business activities.

Continuity Plan Development – To ensure that plans are supporting current people capabilities and together they allow the organization to maintain predefined levels of operational continuity.

Operational Resilience Review - To identify the specific resources or services required to maintain the Organization’s key processes and business activities, and by Risk Analysis, to estimate the vulnerability of those resources/services to loss or disruption.

The ‘SNAP’ Audit - The first step in reviewing whether or not existing plans will actually work. This may be carried out as an off-site assessment of previously prepared Recovery Plans and of the suitability of your overall Business Continuity Strategy

Business Recovery Strategy - To identify the appropriate and cost-effective means of Recovery of normal business operations following their unexpected loss or disruption. This also includes recommendations for Risk avoidance and mitigation.

Recovery Guide Preparation - The preparation of the Documentation that identifies all of the Responsibilities, Resources, and Procedures required to successfully invoke your agreed Business Resumption Strategy.

Recovery Rehearsal/Validation - A structured rehearsal programme for your Organisation's Business Resumption Plan, by carrying out practical testing of Recovery Plans already in place, to ensure they will actually work.

Audit Services - The formal and detailed assessment of previously prepared Recovery Documentation and of the agreed Business Resumption Plans implied therein

These services are aimed to assist organizations to effectively develop a resilient capital/organization supported by implemented BCM policy, BCM strategies and BCM Plans.

Implementation approaches can be sequential like this one:

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Or they can be bottom up and inside out, i.e. you start with critical operational units and build the competence and understanding of analysis methods within accountable managers and their teams allowing them to do the journey themselves.

 Contact us for further details on any of these activities or how a bespoke service can be prepared for your Organisation