NEW Business Continuity Measures

We made some changes in our Business Continuity Management System to help streamline the Business Continuity & Resilience Process and make it easier to maintain and apply continuity measures consistently across the organisation.

The key change is the introduction of Business Continuity Measures that replace Risk Reduction Measures and Recovery Measures. This approach reduces duplication, allows measures to be shared more easily across multiple Assets/Resources, and provides clearer alignment between prevention and recovery activities.

Now, when you have Business Continuity Measures that protect more than one asset/Resource, this can be captured as a single relationship, and any related information, as well as monitoring or testing activities, is shared across the Assets/Resources.

An example of this might be a Fire Detection System that protects a whole department or building. The Fire Detection system can be associated with multiple Assets/Resources.

Equally, when a Business Continuity Measure reduces the likelihood of a loss and also supports business recovery, this relationship can also be captured, again reducing complexity and repetition in the planning process.

Duplicated functionality, such as Tooling or Back-ups, is an example of these.

Now, when you are developing your continuity arrangements, any existing Business Continuity Measures can be selected and added to an Asset/Resource.  This helps save time and ensures consistency when building or updating continuity plans.

You still have all of the Guidance on possible continuity measures as before, that you can use to build your Business Continuity Measures, which can be associated to multiple Assets/Resources

All of your existing Risk Reduction and Recovery Measures can be “converted” to Business Continuity Measures and used as described above, supporting a smoother transition and helping ensure continuity planning remains efficient and consistent.

If you would like us to walk you through these changes, then book a call with us here or call.