RESILIENCE AND THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS
Everything is connected and any unplanned interruption of normal business processes from a simple power outage, a major flooding, or a worldwide pandemic can cause businesses to encounter hurdles and setbacks that impact operations and revenue.
Is your Organization Resilient?
Resilient organizations as those that rebound and prosper after business disruptions. They’re resistant to the impacts of disruption, adaptive, elastic and sustainable in the face of disruption.
A resilient organization:
- Rebounds, resumes and sustains decision making quickly
- Coordinates, manages and mitigates organizational risks on a continuous basis
- Operates with dispersed, but interdependent, operations, electronically and physically
- Is communicative, collaborative, cooperative and creative
- Fosters a diverse and empowered workforce
- Invests in an adaptive, elastic and flexible infrastructure — physical, IT and suppliers
- Has committed leadership and program management
In order to be resilient, it is imperative for your businesses to have a business continuity plan in place to help prevent and minimize interruptions.
What is Business Continuity?
Business continuity is an organization’s ability to maintain essential processes before, during, and after a disaster. It is a business-wide implementation plan that ensures the continuation of critical business functions in the event of a disruption.
Don’t get caught unprepared. The highly trained ECOCAUSE Business Continuity Consultantswill audit, research, and create a plan that is a strong framework to support your businesses when the unexpected occurs.
Our Services
Our Business Continuity professionals can help your organization create a strategy for achieving resiliency. The more preparation and planning your organization can do, the better.
Pandemic Planning, Response & Recovery
We will help you to document and plan ahead.
As many businesses realized during COVID-19, it is not ideal to produce a response when one is in the midst of a crisis; a smart business has already prepared for these risks. A response created in dire straits will likely be arbitrary or random, and it will almost certainly be less effective.
While you are still managing the changes to your business because of COVID-19, we will work to provide you with a well-documented, systematic pandemic , response, and recovery plan that will ensure your business has the greatest chance of success in case of a reoccurring or different pandemic situation.
Business Continuity Audits
How Did Your Business Do During Covid-19 Pandemic?
Our business continuity audit is a formalized method for evaluating how your business continuity processes are being managed. The goal of an audit is to determine whether your plan is effective and in line with your organization’s objectives. Especially after what all businesses went through with COVID-19, having a business continuity plan audit will give you the feedback as to what worked in your plan and efforts and what needs improvement.
Business Impact Analysis
Understand What Business Disruptions Can Look Like And Cost With A Business Impact Analysis.
Our business impact analysis begins with a risk assessment which is our process to identify potential hazards and analyze what could happen if a hazard occurs. We follow this with a business impact analysis (BIA) which is our process for determining the potential impacts resulting from the interruption of time sensitive or critical business processes.
Based on this analysis, we will identify recovery strategies and costs around continuing each process.
Never leave your business venerable by not understanding the impact of crises or interruptions. Have a business impact analysis done to understand where best to invest your business continuity planning for the future.
Business Continuity & Recovery Planning
It all starts with a plan.
Our business continuity and recovery plans are clear about the varying levels of risks to your organization and provides well-defined and actionable steps for resilience and recovery that will protect your employees, facilities and brand.
Our custom plans are comprehensive in detailing actions from beginning to end and include a communications plan. Our process of developing your business continuity plan involves the following activities:
- Risk Identification
- Infrastructure Review
- Business Impact Analysis
- Plan Design
- Plan Implementation
- Training
- Testing
Our experienced consultants work within the ISO 22301 standards. ISO 22301: 2019 is the international standard for Business Continuity Management (BCM). Published by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO 22301 is designed to help organizations prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from unexpected and disruptive incidents.
Look to the future with confidence
Our business continuity planning services are for organizations of all sizes and types. Our easy to understand, user-focused plans will help you demonstrate to regulators, customers, prospective customers and other interested parties that your business is adhering to best practices.