In today’s environment of increased compliance and risk management, and the perception of increased societal risks, through weather, civil unrest and terrorism, business continuity and disaster recovery considerations are highly topical.While it is more common for most organisation to have some form of Disaster Recovery in place (the mere existence of back-ups qualify), ensure that your organisation is capable of and prepared to continue business in the event of a disruption requires a wider range of preparatory skills.

Information Professionals provides Business Continuity Management services to ensure the uninterrupted availability of all key business resources required to support essential (or critical) business activities. This is a management process that helps manage the risks to the smooth running of an organisation or delivery of a service, ensuring it can continue to operate to the extent required in the event of a disruption. We identify the business processes which need protection, identify cost-effective ways of reducing risks to processes, identify key support functions for each process and plan how to provide that support in any foreseeable disaster scenario.