Business supportBusiness Continuity Planning
Keep the business running when something goes wrong
Fire, flood, a ransomware attack, a failed server, a supplier going under or a key person leaving. Business continuity planning means knowing in advance what you’d do, and having tested that it works.
Is this you?
Signs it’s time
- Nobody is sure how long the business could keep going without its main system.
- Backups exist, but nobody has tried restoring from them recently.
- One person holds critical knowledge or passwords.
- You depend on a single supplier, internet connection or building.
- Insurers, funders or clients are asking to see a continuity plan.
What we do
How we approach it
Business impact analysis
We identify your critical activities and work out how long each can be down before it causes real harm, and how much data you can afford to lose.
Risk and dependency review
Systems, suppliers, sites and people are mapped, and single points of failure are flagged.
A plan people can use
Short, practical runbooks covering who does what, who to call and how to get key systems back, not a binder that sits on a shelf.
Testing and improvement
Tabletop exercises and real restore tests, then fixes where the plan reveals gaps, from better backups to automatic failover.
What you get
What you get
- Business impact analysis with recovery targets
- Dependency and risk register
- Continuity and incident response plan
- Contact and escalation sheets
- Test results and an improvement roadmap
- A reminder and refresh each year
Not sure this is the right starting point? The Operations Review covers spend, risk and process in one fixed-price engagement.
Results
Related work
Business continuity
Keeping a customer-facing service running through an outage
A business that couldn’t afford downtime, or an enterprise price tag, now recovers from losing a whole site in about four minutes.
Business continuity · Risk
Protecting a lab’s core records before its server failed
Quotes, certificates and years of records depended on one ageing server. That risk was removed without a day of disruption.
Find out what your business could save
A 30-minute conversation costs nothing. Tell us what’s frustrating you and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.