Services
Risk Analysis
What is it?
As a Business Continuity Consulting, we understand that risk analysis can be difficult to understand. Risk analysis is a straight forward, yet an extremely important process that helps you accurately identify threats to your business. As an important part of your overall risk management program, a risk analysis process should have three unique parts: 1) identification of threats through an organized and thorough process, 2) estimate the possibilities of a threat occurring and assigning a value, 3) determining the impact/costs of each type of incident. A good risk analysis is the first step in creating a business continuity plan which can create greater enterprise resiliency.
Why is it important?
It’s not uncommon to tell ourselves that certain things won’t happen and that if “something” does happen, we are ready. You have a great company, hire good employees and are making a profit, so why wouldn’t you and the team respond well to a threat? Right?
We find the answer to this question in two simple realities: 1) most small businesses that are disrupted from a disaster never reopen, 2) 90% of businesses that do reopen after a disaster are bankrupt in two years. Sobering realities for sure but they don’t have to become your reality!
What is your process?
As a Tulsa Business Continuity Consulting firm, we structure our risk analysis process to be purposeful and thorough so we can draw out and discover your real threats. Sure, we use checklists to ensure we get it right, but that is only part of our approach. The key to successful risk analysis is building a trusted relationship with your team. Building relationships take more than filling out forms and asking questions; it means we put positive, engaging, energetic “boots” on the ground to spend time with your key stakeholders. We care about what they do, how they do their work and how they think your organization can be more resilient. We capitalize for you the knowledge and experience of your greatest assets!
We gather tons of useful data, assemble it, analyze it and provide you with valuable feedback. This feedback comes in two formats: 1) we don’t like surprises and know you don’t as well, so we provide continuous informal feedback on anything important, 2) after a thorough analyzation and research process we provide you a formal risk analysis report. Your risk analysis report includes identified threats, probabilities of each threat/incident, project cost of incidents and recommendations on managing the identified threats. Beyond this step, we hope to build or revise your business continuity plan.
Business Continuity Planning
What is it?
Many people think of a business continuity plan with a Business Continuity Consulting firm as a plan designed to help companies respond to emergencies and disasters. Sometimes they refer to them as emergency operations plans. A good business continuity plan is so much more. After completing your risk analysis, a company should begin defining purposeful activities and assigning responsibility to take itself to the next level of agility. Doing so will dramatically improve the chances that your business will “weather the storm” and bounce back quickly.
Which purposeful activities should a business focus on beyond the traditional response activities? Easy, your plan should conduct activities in these five key areas: 1) prevention, 2) mitigation, 3) preparedness, 4) response, and 5) recovery. Within each of these five core areas reside the necessary information, tasks and assigned responsibilities to build your organization towards a greater enterprise resilience.
Why is it important?
As a Business Continuity Consulting firm, we believe it is important because you will be sending a clear statement to everyone that you are a proactive business, plain and simple. Being proactive builds confidence and trust which increases your success when a threat becomes real. This readiness and agility will come from having gone through the process of creating and assigning the steps necessary to deal with the potential disruption. Proactivity equals better reactivity which equals greater protection of all your assets both human and financial.
What is your process?
The first step is completing a risk analysis which we can provide for your company if you don’t already have a current one to use. After that, we take a similar approach to the way we perform our risk analysis and put positive, engaging, energetic “boots” on the ground to gather useful data and solutions. Who knows best than the people doing the work each day. We take this data and input and quite often discover many creative and cost-effective ways to prevent and mitigate threats before they even happen! Prevention and mitigation are our primary goals of service to you.
We use the gathered information and build a plan that works for your unique operations. You will have several chances to review and edit before finalizing your new business continuity plan. Beyond this step, we hope to work with you to implement the new plan through coaching, training, and exercise as we help you pursue greater enterprise resilience.
Implementation Management
What is it?
As a Business Continuity Consulting company, we offer implementation management services to help you successfully implement any or all the five key areas of your business continuity plan that include: 1) prevention, 2) mitigation, 3) preparedness, 4) response, and 5) recovery. Culture, complexity, lack of expertise sometimes make it difficult to get where you want to be as an organization, and we have been there and understood these challenges. Our ability to facilitate, implement and coach will help you stay on track while building greater enterprise resilience.
Why is it important?
Failing to implement your business continuity plan successfully leaves you exposed. This failure occurs many times because of a lack of understanding on the organizations part about how to implement a business continuity plan successfully. Typically, the development and initial implementation of a business continuity plan go great, yet real habits fail to be adopted. Thus, as time passes the plan becomes less relevant due to lack of attention. It’s not urgent anymore, so it inadvertently gets pushed into the background until the next crisis emerges.
As a Tulsa Business Continuity Consulting, even with the talent and understanding to implement your new business continuity plan are you prepared to divert your time and resources away from your business model? Let us manage implementation and follow up to help build these habits and mindsets so you can stay focused on your business while we come alongside and coach you to victory!
What is your process?
When managing projects we spend the necessary time with each decision maker to understand their needs and goals. Nothing “cookie cutter” her as we listen and listen carefully to you so we can develop a customized solution that works. It’s that simple.
Cybersecurity Continuity Planning
What is it?
Today cybersecurity is more complex than ever in Business Continuity Consulting due to the explosive growth of our IoT (internet of things) coupled with the equally increasing number of sophisticated and powerful cyber gangs. Cyber criminals are constantly searching for and exploiting your existing vulnerabilities. Our technological landscape is constantly and rapidly evolving, which means that cybersecurity is no longer a threat that only large organizations must manage in order to protect their valuable operations and assets.
Regardless of your business size, all organizations must have an effective cybersecurity planning and defense program ready to deploy in a moments notice. Having a wide range of effective cybersecurity tools and response mechanism may seem like a daunting task, but we can demystify this for you and provide straightforward, manageable and cost-effective cybersecurity.
Why is it important?
Cybersecurity breaches are real for everyone, and they can bring your business to a complete standstill. Just ask the design and engineering firm that had its 20 work stations (and backups) rendered useless by ransomware. Ten business days later they finally reopened yet they had permanently lost all records older than five years. In their frantic response process, they spent tens of thousands of dollars on emergency IT response from a third-party vendor.
That’s the good news; the bad news is that most small businesses don’t survive long term and are bankrupt in 18 months (FEMA). A simple, robust and cost-effective cybersecurity program could have limited their outage to less than 24 hours. Just remember resiliency in cybersecurity is just as important as having physical security, fire protection and other traditional methods of risk management. Our Tulsa Business Continuity Consulting team can help your entire organization understand the importance of this.
What is our process?
The first step our Business Continuity Consulting team is completing a cybersecurity risk analysis. It starts with a simple questionnaire, and as needed we put positive, engaging, energetic “boots” on the ground to gather useful data and solutions from your team. Who knows best than the people doing the work each day, right? We take this data and input and quite often discover many creative and cost-effective ways to prevent and mitigate threats before they even happen! Prevention and mitigation of cybersecurity disruptions are our priority.
We use the gathered information and build a cybersecurity plan that works for your unique operations. You will have several chances to review and edit before finalizing your new cybersecurity plan. Beyond this step, we hope to work with you to implement the new plan through coaching, training, and exercise as we help you pursue greater enterprise resilience.
Our cybersecurity analysis, recommendations, and implementations are simple, cost-effective and sustainable. To ensure the most holistic protection, we strongly recommend combing our full cybersecurity continuity planning with our traditional business continuity planning to create a highly resilient organization that has the right plan of action for all types of disruptions. Call the best Business Continuity Consulting in the business to protect your digital records and processes.
Response and Recovery Management
What is it?
Our Business Continuity Consulting team provides remote and on-site disaster response and recovery management services. We deploy quickly, make a rapid initial assessment and then develop a response and recovery plan that you will review and approve. Once approved we manage the complex and technical response and recovery process which many times includes using internal staff, external vendors and other organizations. Our goal is to minimize the disruption and get you back online as soon as feasible.
Why is it important?
Our Business Continuity Consulting team has decades of experience managing complex crisis and can put that to work for you. This experience allows you to focus on what you are best at and not divert time and attention away from existing duties. You may be fully capable of getting your company back on line but how long will this take by managing the process yourself? Can you afford a “learning curve” here? Most small business that are closed due to a disaster never reopen (FEMA). Those that do reopen after an multi day closure are bankrupt in 18 months (FEMA). Let us keep you from becoming another statistic.
What is our process?
A simple phone call can get the team working right away assessing your situation. We provide a rapid initial assessment that you can review and provide feedback. Once deployed we manage the event using the same techniques emergency first responders and the military use to handle complex, high risk and time sensitive incidents. We create an incident management team that’s suited for your size company and emergency and are available to run the incident manage team 24/7. Aggressive at restoring operations in a calm and confident manner is what you will experience.
Training, Coaching, Mentoring
Need a specific solution that doesn’t quite fit our other service model? No problem we routinely offer custom fit solutions in business continuity training, coaching and mentoring. Call our Business Continuity Consulting team today to get started with your journey towards greater enterprise resilience!