Crisis & Business Continuity Management

Brassbear Solutions recognises that recent events continue to highlight the potential vulnerabilities of businesses around the world.  The earthquakes in Christchurch, flooding in Queensland and the Tsunami in Japan have had devastating consequences for individuals, organisations and society at large.  However, many organisations never experience a ‘Landscape-Scale’ disaster, but do suffer their own ‘quiet crisis’.  Whilst these ‘quiet crisis’ rarely make the media, they do have significant ramifications for organisational performance.

Brassbear Solutions ensures clients treat crisis and business continuity planning as an integral part of the organisation’s plan for managing risk.

Brassbear Solutions provides crisis and business continuity assistance to clients in a range of ways, including:

• Analysing the organisations’ current state of preparedness, the business impact from disruptive events and the risks to the continuity or critical operations
• Reviewing organisational arrangements for crisis management and business continuity (e.g. to verify alignment with AS/NZS 5050:2010 ‘Business continuity – Managing disruption-related risk’, BS25999-2 ‘Specification for business continuity management’, the Australian National Audit Office guidelines and/or the BCI Global Better Practice Guidelines 2010)
• Support with the development and implementation of strategies to mitigate low frequency, high severity ‘business continuity’ risks
• Training and awareness for Directors, managers and employees
• The development and facilitation of crisis management & business continuity exercises