Business Continuity Management

Stay operational, when it matters.

Business Continuity Management that brings together Enterprise Architecture, processes, automation and AI. So your critical operations keep running during a disruption, and recovery has been rehearsed before it is needed.

Why BCM

BCM is not a folder on a shelf.

Emergency manuals nobody knows are no help in a real crisis. Effective BCM knows which processes are critical, which systems and data they depend on and who does what when something fails.

That is why we connect BCM with everything else we do: architecture, process management, automation and AI. Mandatory documentation becomes a living cycle.

Approach

A cycle, not a one-off project.

We set up BCM so that it lives with your organisation: every exercise and every change feeds back into the analysis and the plans.

BCM LIVING CYCLE STEP 1Initiation & policySTEP 2Business impact analysisSTEP 3Risk analysisSTEP 4Contingency planningSTEP 5Exercises & testsSTEP 6Improvement
Services

Everything for a BCM that holds up in a real crisis.

Set-up

BCM organisation & policy

Scope, roles, responsibilities and a policy that senior management stands behind.

Analysis

Business impact analysis

Critical processes, maximum tolerable downtimes and recovery objectives, linked to the process map and architecture.

Risk

Risk & dependency analysis

Which systems, data, locations and service providers can become a single point of failure.

Planning

Contingency & recovery plans

Plans that are understandable in a real crisis: who does what, in which order, with which resources.

Exercises

Exercises, tests & evidence

From tabletop exercises to recovery tests, automatically documented for audits and internal audit.

Use Case 04

BCM best practices & blueprint

Proven procedures, blueprint and automation for business continuity. To the use case →

Standards & frameworks

BSI Standard 200-4ISO 22301ISO 27001NIS2

Reference

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)

Connected with

Enterprise ArchitectureProcess mapChange ManagementRoles & permissions matrix
BCM check

How well prepared are you for a real crisis?

Together we look at your critical processes and dependencies and show where the biggest gaps lie.

  1. You briefly describe your starting point.
  2. In 30 minutes we clarify scope, goal and kick-off.