Business Continuity

Business continuity management involves managing the recovery or continuation of business activities in the event of a business disruption, and management of the overall programme through training, exercises and reviews, to ensure the incident management, business continuity, and business recovery plans stays current and up-to-date.

Business Continuity Management is defined by the British Standards Institute as a:

"Holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations that those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience with the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities."
– BS25999:2006

Business continuity management (BCM) is a business-owned, business-driven process that establishes a fit-for-purpose strategic and operational framework that:

• Proactively improves an organisations resilience against the disruption of its ability to achieve its key objectives.
• Provides a rehearsed method of restoring an organisations ability to supply its key products and services to an agreed level within an agreed time after a disruption.
• Delivers a proven capability to manage a business disruption and protect the organisations reputation and brand.

While the individual processes of business continuity can change with an organisations size, structures and responsibilities, the basic principles remain exactly the same for voluntary, private or public sector organisations, regardless of their size, scope or complexity.

Epiphany is a market leader in defining and calibrating scalable cost effective Business Continuity Management programmes to match the organisational needs. We undertake a full lifecycle approach to implementing business continuity that conforms to the combined approaches as identified in the Business Continuity Institute and the Disaster Recovery Institute International. Our employees understand that each organisation requires individual solutions based upon baseline BCM principles that are uniquely influenced by:

• Organisational Strategy
• Assets and Resources
• Critical Activities
• Products and Services
• Key Stakeholders

Business Continuity Management forms one element of our wider approach called integrated resilience.

Please contact us to discuss our Organisational Resilience Services.