Specialist support
Keep your business moving through disruption.
Practical support to build, assess, audit and test your business continuity arrangements. Prepare your people to respond and recover.
How we can help
Loss of premises, unavailable staff, supplier failure, IT outages or a serious incident can quickly interrupt operations. A business continuity plan helps you decide what must continue, what can wait and how to restore essential activities. We help turn those decisions into workable arrangements, tailored to your operations, resources and priorities.
Who this is for
Organisations developing their first continuity plan, seeking an independent review or preparing an exercise to test their response.
What the support can include
Build your continuity arrangements
Identify critical activities through business impact analysis, map dependencies on people, premises, systems and suppliers, and agree recovery priorities and acceptable periods of disruption. Develop plans, response procedures and recovery checklists with clear responsibilities, escalation routes and communication arrangements.
Assess an existing plan
Check whether your arrangements reflect how your business operates today. Identify gaps, outdated assumptions and dependencies that could prevent your plan from working, with prioritised recommendations and practical support to address them.
Audit your arrangements
Examine the evidence behind your arrangements, including ownership, training, document control, supplier dependencies and previous exercises. We agree the scope and criteria with you, whether these are internal requirements, customer expectations or an agreed continuity framework.
Test and exercise your response
Practise decisions, communication and recovery through plan walkthroughs and facilitated tabletop scenarios. Where appropriate, we help plan controlled tests of specific recovery arrangements. Each exercise ends with a structured debrief, lessons and an action plan.
Plans your people can use
Your continuity arrangements should help people act under pressure. Depending on the agreed scope, deliverables may include:
- A business impact analysis and dependency summary.
- A business continuity plan with clear activation criteria.
- Roles, contact arrangements and communication checklists.
- Prioritised recovery procedures.
- An assessment or audit report.
- An exercise report and improvement plan.
- A review schedule to keep arrangements current.
Your proposal sets out the agreed deliverables, timing, responsibilities and fee before work begins.
Our approach
From understanding to action.
- 01
Understand your business
Discuss your operations, existing arrangements and the consequences of disruption.
- 02
Agree the priorities
Identify the activities that matter most and the resources needed to maintain or recover them.
- 03
Develop and challenge
Build or review your plans, checking that responsibilities, assumptions and recovery options are realistic.
- 04
Exercise and improve
Practise the response, capture lessons and strengthen the plan.
Your questions
Before we get started.
We do not have a business continuity plan. Can you help us start?
Can you review a plan written by someone else?
Will testing disrupt our operations?
Can you help with IT disaster recovery?
How often should we review the plan?
A clear next step
Make your next disruption easier to manage.
Start with a free initial conversation about your requirements.