Risk Expo 2007
Presents Integrated Resilience at the Risk Expo London.
Members of Epiphany's Organisational Resilience, Global Outsourcing, and Professional Services divisions combined with Helen Thorton of Royal Sun Alliance to present 'BCM Performance and Benefits' at Risk Expo 2007 (London Excel Centre 28/29th March 2007).
Leading the presentation, Wayne Harrop B.A Hons, MBCI, MEPS, MIEM, MICDDS, a world Authority on the development of combined approaches to Risk Management, Business Continuity, and Crisis Management examined the origin and evolution of BCM, the lead up to and arrival of BS25999, and progressed on to consider some of the challenges Business Continuity faces, along with the detailed considerations for the future development of BCM as a discipline.
Wayne then presented his 'Integrated Resilience Model' (IRM) as an insight into cutting edge thinking in the field of organisational resilience. The IRM achieves the successful unification of Risk, Continuity, and Crisis Management into a single 'joined up' framework. Wayne explained, "Integrated Resilience is the natural evolution for Risk, Continuity, and Crisis Management professionals. Employing a singular framework through which to deliver essential safeguards to the organisation makes sense. It simplifies the processes, reduces cost, reduces duplication, conflict, and provides easier communication and transparency to Board members."
Directors from Epiphany's Marketing and Outsourcing divisions offered working examples of how Integrated Resilience has been successfully implemented across Epiphany operations (and combined as part of a larger cross functional approach) to deliver measureable business benefits, enabling Epiphany to gain competitive advantage in its marketplace.
The overall theme of the presentation pointed out that there are clear competitive benefits to be gained from implementing BS25999, and that these benefits extend far beyond the typical arguments about organisational resilience.
Robert Morton, EMEA Development Director for Epiphany Global Sourcing explained, "BS25999 offers real competitive benefits for organisations. BS25999 will be used by procurement specialists as a standard to determine those suppliers that have an independenly verifiable BCM program and those that don't. Increasingly, those that don't will lose out on opportunities. For Epiphany, the cost of implementing BS25999 would be measured in the thousands, whilst the opportunities we go after are measured in the tens of millions, so for organisations like ours BS25999 makes financial sense."
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