Planning - not just plans.
Risk management enhancements can be achieved by using the expertise of specialist consultants - such as EPCB. However this should not be done by consultants working in isolation. Experts need to work closely with clients and other stakeholders to ensure outcomes are both practical and owned.
This is especially true early in any project - in establishing the right directions, in agreeing on existing capabilities and in developing commitment throughout the organisation.
At EPCB we build engagement and facilitation processes into all elements of our services.
The link below illustrates what is called the "analytic-deliberative" process - crucial to establishing context.
A process which integrates science and quantitative approaches with the qualitative aspects of politics and culture.
Click here to explore the key underpinning role of analytic and deliberative processes.
Click here for a paper on EPCB's approach to integrating Business Impact Assessment and Crisis Management (pdf)
Profile your organisation and its reliance on resources.
Download the "APQC Process Classification Framework" (pdf).
This framework is a widely accepted, tested over time and very useful context and process mapping tool.
It is a sound and logical way to map your key (business) processes,
and explore the things upon which those functions rely.
This will help you to focus on areas of vulnerability and opportunities for improvement.
What do you rely on?
Use a Business Impact Analysis to consider critical products and services
- focus on key underpinning functions, processes.
Premise the interdependency and vulnerability of the resources those key functions and processes depend on.
(RESOURCES: People, Premises, Technology, Information, Suppliers and Stakeholders)
Click here To see how Business Impact Analysis (BIA) maps your resource reliance and vulnerabilities (pdf)
Early in establishing your context it is critically important to
establish assessment criteria which reflect your "risk appetite".
Click here to download an example of risk assessment criteria (66 KB pdf).
Software to support your planning. |
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Complete Continuity Toolkit - for small businesses
Fourteen (14) Microsoft files (Word™ Excel™ and PowerPoint™) supporting the needs of Small to Medium Business available for immediate download. Unsolicited Feedback: "Many thanks. This toolkit is brilliant!" (From Mr. Doug Nelson, MBCI, CBCP, Business Continuity Manager, CHIRON, Emeryville, California.) |
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Buttress® Consulting Module
Buttress® Consulting Module delivers enhanced business continuity and crisis management capability to clients. What differentiates Buttress® from other business continuity and crisis management products is that it will support you to understand your risks, evaluate your exposures, and take action to: (a) mitigate your vulnerabilty before an incident - and (b) manage the consequences after an incident. |
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The guidelines, tools and templates in our pages will both support your planning processes and strengthen your preparedness outcomes. Using familiar software (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint), we focus on quality processes within a risk management framework. The approaches we provide serve as best practice models - they should not just be used as "templates for duplication" with a few global word changes. You should evaluate the significance of any specific requirements particular to your context (legal, political, cultural, commercial etc) - then tailor your approach and documentation accordingly.
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