Contingency Now can help your organization determine its risk management profile.Contingency Now will partner with your organization and create a business recovery plan that is aligned with strategic strategies and informational structures.Check out our other consulting services such as Audits, Training Programs, and Risk Analysis & Assessments.Proactive contingency planning will protect your employees, investors, supply chain, technology and business processes from unplanned outages and down time.Follow this link to access a list of resource documents and information that can help your enterprise.Learn about Contingency Now and what a few of our past clients are saying about the outstanding value we bring to the table.
A well prepared and validated disaster recovery plan for IT will ensure the timely recovery of your critical information systems.Did you know that business continuity planning is critical to the survival and livelihood any operating enterprise?Contingency Now's Business Impact Analysis will provide critical system, business process and financial data so your senior management team will know where, when, why and how much risk is inherited into enterprise operations.Contingency Now can help your organization create an effective business continuity management program.
Business Continuity Plan & COOP for Business Processes
A Business Continuity Plan (BCP - private) or Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP - public) is a proactive senior management  commanded enterprise-wide interruption event management program driven by business requirements. A more formal definition of business continuity is:

"Business Continuity is the ability to sustain mission critical business processes during an unplanned interruption event."

A BCP and/or COOP is a "live document" that is aligned and/or infused into the operational capabilities and strategy of the enterprise. As a proactive management controlled program, a BCP/COOP mitigates the consequences of an enterprise interruption event to a level acceptable to management. Also, the BCP/COOP provides a proven and tested methodology to effectively permit resumption of critical enterprise-wide functions. Without an effective and working BCP/COOP, both public and private enterprises can experience significant financial losses and with private firms - even bankruptcy.  A list of financially and/or business limiting events for private companies are:
  • Negative or misaligned public perception
  • Inability to maintain customer support
  • Inability to effectively communicate internally or externally
  • Excessive time for reconstitution to normal operations
  • Loss of key vendors and/or partners
  • Decreased credibility to investors
  • Existing customers will jump to competition
  • Increase in employee stress and decrease in moral
  • Key projects are delayed or cancelled
The COOP is quite similar to the BCP except it's aligned to specific government mandates with differing workgroup recovery requirements.  Government jurisdictions must plan for a minimum of 30 days downtime while operating their infrastructure at a remote location.  Also, it's imperative that government jurisdictions are capable of maintaining and effectively managing public security across multi-hazard events. 

For private companies, think of your BCP as the action plan that helps to ensure full operational integrity and information availability. It's not just about the ones and zeros of your business data, it's about validating and ensuring ongoing business processes and key functions prior, during and post a business interruption event. A well developed, integrated and and validated BCP/COOP provides the following value to your business enterprise:

  • Ensures the safety of your most valued asset the employee
  • Minimizes and/or mitigates financial losses to the enterprise - revenue for private and cost basis for public
  • Ensures the on-going availability of key business services and operations
  • Compliance to government sponsored regulations such as the HIPAA Security Rule 164.308(a)(7)(i), GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) FPC-65
  • Ensures the timely and effective resumption of critical enterprise-wide functions
  • Marketed correctly -- can increase revenues, differentiate to the competition (private) and ensure ongoing public safety for public operations
  • Mitigates corporate and personal liabilities
  • Positively enhances public opinion
With the onset of the information age and an increase in new business methodologies leveraged by emerging technologies, your business enterprise cannot afford to operate without a well executed BCP. Business continuity and COOP planning is here to stay and Contingency Now is here to help you solve information availability and continuity of operation's problems.