Excellis Business Consulting

Business Continuity


Ensuring Business Continuity^™ (EBC) is a professional service that combines web-based tools and our own proprietary risk identification and analysis techniques with the core discipline of Business Continuity Management (BCM), as endorsed by the British Standards Institute (BSI). What will you do? In a fiercely competitive business environment any temporary disruption to your business could have profound consequences well beyond the loss of productivity. Moreover, customer perception and shareholder value may also be adversely affected – even if the disruption is attributable to a third-party in your supply chain. Regardless of the type, size or location of your enterprise, ensuring the resilience and robustness of your business processes, supporting systems and teams is a critical aspect of your management function. How we can help Excellis is able to provide a complete lifecycle service, covering: Risk Assessment and Impact Analysis Diagnostics and BCM Strategy Formulation BCM Plan and Implementation BCM Continuous Improvement The BCM implementation is further underpinned by: Project and Change Management Business and Technology Advisory Key Benefits of Excellis’ Approach Our approach has been shown to help: Minimise business downtime in the event of a critical incident or infrastructure or systems failure. Instil a disciplined approach to risk and disaster recovery management, as well as ensuring the operational integrity of the supply chain. Increase customer confidence in your business’ reliability and robustness to provide uninterrupted services. Increase employee confidence in your senior management’s ability to handle unscheduled disruptions in a planned manner. Achieve conformity with standards such as BS25999. A high quality service that is tailored to a client’s business needs. Why take action? Consider the following "what if" scenarios that may also be applicable to your organisation: Your customer master database becomes corrupted during your busy season. - What impact would this have on your customer satisfaction, cash-flow, and loss of future revenues? - Are you over-reliant on certain functions, individuals or systems? To win a major bid, your business needs to visibly demonstrate that it has robust processes and systems. - Increasingly, major procurement tenders include risk assessments that consider the entire supply chain. - Can you afford to let this be a factor that causes you to miss out on key contract opportunities? You want to ensure that your risk assessment is not skewed by internal politics and fear: - A risk assessment is much more effective when it is conducted by an impartial and independent assessor. You want to ensure that everyone in your company is familiar with your BCM policy and practices. - Businesses that have an agreed, owned and well-communicated BCM plan and strategy in place tend to be better prepared to manage “service outage” situations. back

Ensuring Business Continuity^™ (EBC) is a professional service that combines web-based tools and our own proprietary risk identification and analysis techniques with the core discipline of Business Continuity Management (BCM), as endorsed by the British Standards Institute (BSI).

What will you do?

In a fiercely competitive business environment any temporary disruption to your business could have profound consequences well beyond the loss of productivity.

Moreover, customer perception and shareholder value may also be adversely affected – even if the disruption is attributable to a third-party in your supply chain.

Regardless of the type, size or location of your enterprise, ensuring the resilience and robustness of your business processes, supporting systems and teams is a critical aspect of your management function.

How we can help

Excellis is able to provide a complete lifecycle service, covering:

Risk Assessment and Impact Analysis
Diagnostics and BCM Strategy Formulation
BCM Plan and Implementation
BCM Continuous Improvement

The BCM implementation is further underpinned by:

Project and Change Management
Business and Technology Advisory

Key Benefits of Excellis’ Approach

Our approach has been shown to help:

Minimise business downtime in the event of a critical incident or infrastructure or systems failure.
Instil a disciplined approach to risk and disaster recovery management, as well as ensuring the operational integrity of the supply chain.
Increase customer confidence in your business’ reliability and robustness to provide uninterrupted services.
Increase employee confidence in your senior management’s ability to handle unscheduled disruptions in a planned manner.
Achieve conformity with standards such as BS25999.
A high quality service that is tailored to a client’s business needs.

Why take action?

Consider the following "what if" scenarios that may also be applicable to your organisation:

Your customer master database becomes corrupted during your busy season.

- What impact would this have on your customer satisfaction, cash-flow, and loss of future revenues?
- Are you over-reliant on certain functions, individuals or systems?
To win a major bid, your business needs to visibly demonstrate that it has robust processes and systems.

- Increasingly, major procurement tenders include risk assessments that consider the entire supply chain.
- Can you afford to let this be a factor that causes you to miss out on key contract opportunities?
You want to ensure that your risk assessment is not skewed by internal politics and fear:

- A risk assessment is much more effective when it is conducted by an impartial and independent assessor.
You want to ensure that everyone in your company is familiar with your BCM policy and practices.

- Businesses that have an agreed, owned and well-communicated BCM plan and strategy in place tend to be better prepared to manage “service outage” situations.

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