BUSINESS CONTINUITY
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Organizational resiliency depends on being able to pursue critical business functions while responding to a major disaster. Quickly returning to normal operations efficiently and cohesively is a critical success factor in today’s environment.
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We specialize in designing effective business continuity and disaster recovery programs. Our services include:
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Resiliency Assessment.
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Business Impact Analysis.
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Crisis Management.
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Business Continuity Plan.
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Risk Consulting.
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IT Strategy and Cybersecurity.
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Resources.
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We provide an in-depth analysis of your organization structure and operations, taking into consideration different requirements and risks you may be facing depending on your industry:
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Audit and Gap analysis.
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Legislation and Regulatory framework:
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Legal requirements and client contingencies;
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Regulatory framework and compliance;
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Confidentiality.
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Resources:
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Staffing, competencies, governance;
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Infrastructure (servers, storage, networks);
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Hardware/software/data backup, offsite replication, recovery, testing;
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Procedures and Communication;
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Certifications.
A key component of a business continuity plan (BCP) is a disaster recovery plan (DRP) that contains strategies for handling IT disruptions to networks, servers, personal computers, and mobile devices. We specialize in designing and implementing DRPs with a simple, yet effective, methodology for resilience:
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1. Set recovery objectives.
2. Identify the necessary professionals.
3. Create detailed documentation for network infrastructure.
4. Select the data recovery technique.
5. Create an incident criteria checklist.
6. Document, test, and update the disaster recovery plan regularly.
Business continuity is all about keeping current operation of your business no matter and what can happen, but also, how to expand the reach and growth of your current footprint.
For startups, growth Business Continuity is paramount, it is a requisite most Fortune 500 and Fortune 100’s companies would demand of your company. to have and supply, contracting your services or buying your products.
When we provide our Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) we audit our services though an independent 3rd party (auditor) for full compliance. To assure your BCP and DRP are full proof in the eyes of any contracting party and you are assured success in your closing contract.
For mid-cap businesses BCP and DRP becomes even more important as it minimizes the risks associated with growth and continuation despite vast changes in landscape due to systemic and non-systemic risks.
Another aspect related to BCP and DRP might be related to Real Estate and its heist and best use, for example: Your HQ or manufacturing plant does not have the best technology to reduce electrical costs, or its design is outdated to allow for more development or innovation to be applied to it. Or simply, your vision of how the feel and look of your offices, stores or branches need to change to align better with the new image (visualization) of your enterprise.
Many others reach out to us to raise capital and realize that not having a solid valuation due to lack or outdated business plans, pitch deck along with real BCP and DRP can be a roadblock with investors’ due diligence period. Making this investment in your own firm is a strategic and unique approach to assure capital raise and/or lending that can enable your company to get to the next phase of growth.
Other instances, i.e. good planning is very important: shareholders exits or management composition changes along with Corporate Governance; multigenerational continuance, or lack thereof, in the management of an organization; e.i: a key employee leaving the company, gets into partial or total disability, illness, or death, among other matters, it can affect your day-to-day operations.
Along with a BCP, DRP that dovetails with Cybersecurity, we actively help our clients in other key aspects like:
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Align the best corporate structure set up to enable global investments, growth, minimizing tax consequences for both the corporation and the investors.
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Intellectual property protection: copyrights, trademarks, and patents. As well as licensing and franchising.
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Enhance your team with shared team member services from the professionals affiliated exclusively though Classy Disruptors. This will save your organization hiring efforts and money as our competitive rates have proven to suit most clients in the mid cap markets.
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Automation in your processes, systems and specially in your manufacturing process or supply chain needs or Robotics built to suit and increase productivity, minimize risk and costs.
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Blockchain solutions and smart contracts creation helping your company improve provenance related matters.
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Software as a service tailored to your organizational needs.
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