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Business Continuity Essentials
The IMSM 'Business Continuity Essentials' is a series of processes and documents to better prepare your business against a range of potential issues, events, and disruptions.
Using exclusively IRCA-qualified consultants, we take the heavy lifting out of the process by crafting the required documentation and preparing you for success.
IMSM has issued many Business Continuity Essentials to our clients globally.
Allow your business to prepare against a range of potential issues, events, and disruptions.
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What is Business Continuity Essentials?
Business continuity essentials is taken from the ISO 22301 standard, it is the IMSM “best practice” for business continuity for small and medium sized businesses. It is designed to help organisations ensure they are ready against potential issues, events and disruptions.
At the heart of the business continuity essentials is a service which creates a set of processes that when combined help protect your business, regardless of size, sector or perceived risk. It helps you actively prepare for disruptive events by conducting relevant business impact analysis and risk analysis. Implementing the business continuity essentials is much like an ISO standard, we base it around your own requirements, while still taking international best practice into account.
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How will Business Continuity Essentials help my business?
Implementing these systems shows your customers and stakeholders you are dependable with a plan to stay in business. Be it a pandemic, supply disruption or adverse climate, you have the tools and plan to continue to meet your customers demand.
- Your company will get a custom guide to navigating and preparing for disruption in the form of a business continuity plan. IMSM has taken this important element from ISO 22301 and will help craft, communicate and implement this within your business
- A business impact analysis will be performed to ensure there is a systematic process to determine and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident or emergency
- Business continuity essentials also provides demonstrable compliance with other international standards, including clause A17 of Annex A of ISO/IEC 27001.
Steps to getting Business Continuity Essentials certification
1. Initial Consultation
Our consultant will review what you currently have in place and where you may or may not be actively preparing for disruptive events. We’ll then explain the documentation that will be provided and how it will be completed. At this stage we will begin drafting the required documentation for you, based on the information and examples you’ve provided to our consultant.
2. Production of Documentation
After the first meeting, our consultant will draft all required documentation. We’ll regularly update you and may ask for examples of documentation or business practices throughout this process. At this stage your business continuity plan will become customized to your business operation, and we’ll work with you to conduct the relevant business impact analysis and risk analysis, which is required and contained within the business continuity essentials service.
3. Review & Training
Once you have approved the documentation provided and any required amendments have been made, our consultant will guide you as the documentation is implemented and you communicate it throughout the organisation. As well as training you and your team on the documentation, we will show you how to test the business continuity plan as well as modifying your risk and impact analysis.
4. Successful Completion
Congratulations. You’re now demonstrating best practice continuity and can clearly show your customers and other stakeholders that you are here to stay in business. Using your business continuity plan, you can plan immediate, medium and long-term response and preparation to a variety of issues and circumstances. IMSM will issue you with a “Business Continuity Best Practice” logo for inclusion on your company website and other documentation.
Why choose IMSM?
Simple: We make it simple. Since 1994, we've helped businesses achieve ISO certification, with over 150 experts worldwide and 15,000+ clients trusting us to implement their ISOs. We've proven to be experts at handling the logistical heavy lifting, saving your company valuable time.
With a transparent fixed fee, flexible approach, and real-time access to updates, documentation, and an array of other features through IMSMLoop, we collaborate with your organisation to make any ISO implementation as straightforward and beneficial as possible.
- World-class gap analysis
- Experienced ISO consultants
- Regular updates
- Flexible terms and contract
- Fixed fee
- Full implementation
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How can ISO Specialists help your business?
Getting started with ISO certification might seem daunting; this is often the reason why businesses enlist the help of an ISO consultant. For 30 years, we've supported and guided organisations like yours through certification. Our experienced consultants take the lead on auditing your business, helping you use the results to enhance your quality management system. If necessary, there is also plenty of room for training.
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