Service Description
When a crisis occurs
a road map is needed to navigate through the event. That road map can
take the form of a contingency or continuity plan. (These are
essentially the same document, but referred to by these names depending on
your industry.) CPOCS can help you
put one together or revise an existing one.
No plan will address
every risk or crisis event with 100% certainty. However, the consequences
are severe if there is no plan at all. The goal of having a contingency plan
is to establish the basic elements that facilitate rapid and decisive action
to identify the crisis, react to the crisis, control the event, recover, and
resume operations.
The
plan, as designed by CPOCS, is a living document, something that gets tested
periodically and audited on a routine basis. The contingency should not
be some huge document that gets written once, then placed on a back shelf to
be forgotten and gather dust.
The best of these
plans are relatively short (under 50 pages for a rule of thumb); and packed
with the key information that must be at the fingertips of the corporate
executives and other key decision-makers.
Frequently organizations have fairly
exhaustive disaster preparedness or recovery plans for individual operations
or systems. These plans are geared towards the full recovery of key
operations over an extended period. A contingency or continuity plan
isn't a substitute or replacement for these. Instead its focus is on
the integrated, immediate recovery of the most critical aspects of all these
operations in ways that minimize an organization's liability, preserve its
revenue stream, and quickly restore its core capabilities to continue
providing goods and services.
We'd be happy to develop disaster recovery
plans for you too.
