In the aftermath of the catastrophic events of the past few years such as hurricanes, explosions at manufacturing plants or terrorist attacks across the globe, and with the looming threat of pandemics, companies worldwide are grappling with a serious challenge: how to plan for business resilience in a world where the unthinkable is now all too possible. But organisations should also be prepared for so-called smaller issues which can have a significant impact on business operations, such as a technology failure, power failure, a localised flood and transport problems.
If this is your situation
- You want to know which events might result in major threats for the value creation and continuity of your business.
- You want to develop an approach and / or strategies to overcome such major threats.
- You want to ensure that your business continuity and recovery plan and approaches are up to their task.
- You want to ensure that you are properly organised to do what is needed to execute the plan.
- You need to comply with your industry's business continuity planning rules and regulations.
- You want to make the most effective use of your business continuity budget.
- You want to select third-party vendors and business partners with superior continuity strategies.
How PwC can help you
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a global Business Continuity Planning (BCP) practice working with an integrated set of tools and methodologies to ensure a consistent approach is followed wherever our clients are located. Our worldwide experience and research with organisations that have experienced major crises has enabled us to develop a full understanding of what constitutes a workable business continuity solution.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a suite of BCP products, each designed to interact with the others to ensure that we can provide the most effective solution for your organisation.
- Traditional BCP
The Traditional BCP methodology incorporates five phases and takes an organisation from assessing likely failure scenarios and prioritising core business processes, through developing recovery strategies and creating plans for the critical business units. In addition, we will assist you with the initial test of the plans and develop an ongoing testing and maintenance process.
- FastTrack BCP
For organisations requiring a more rapid, less detail-oriented approach, PricewaterhouseCoopers offers FastTrack BCP. This approach is very fast, very profitable and very low risk.
Both Traditional BCP and FastTrack BCP are designed to take your organisation through the whole cycle and deliver working continuity plans at the end of the process. Of course, you may want to look at specific elements of your contingency planning. To help you focus on specific areas of concern, PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed the BCP Healthcheck tool which can be used to give you an immediate assessment of the overall state of your organisation’s level of preparedness. Once you have identified those elements requiring further work, our advisors can provide expert assistance as needed.
