Awareness and Education

• Raise BC/DR planning awareness through presentations and education at industry conferences
• Raise individual client awareness through presentations and education tailored to the level and needs of each specific client audience
  • Executives, managers, planning team, other employees
  • Focus on the Human Factors and Ripple Effects vital to disaster preparedness planning
  • Industry-specific considerations
  • Specific objectives to be achieved
• Incident Command System (ICS)
  • Business benefits of implementing modified Incident Command System
  • ICS organization structure for business
  • Applying ICS forms for business incidents
• Possible presentation topics include, but are not limited to
  • The differences between an outage, emergency, or disaster
  • The Business Benefits of Personal Emergency Plans
  • All Situations Have Ripple Effects
  • Exercise Techniques, Scope, and Scenarios
  • How to create realistic disaster scenarios for exercises
  • Managing by Objectives
  • Many more possible topics
• Participate in client-specific brainstorming sessions and discussion classes, to make sure everyone understands

Development

• Business Continuity Management (BCM) guidance
  • Methods considerations
  • Content
  • Best practices
  • Vendor recommendations
  • Specific client objectives and requests
• Plan guidance
  • Specific client scope and scale
  • Considerations
  • Recommended structure and content
  • Tool features and methods
  • Vendor recommendations
  • Specific client objectives and requests

Exercises and Drills

• Reviewing client's continuity plans and methodology, per contracted parameters
  • Exercise/drill schedule, methodologies, and techniques
  • Continuous improvement
• Specific exercise/drills
  • Review objectives and related scope and scale
  • Scenario creation assistance or review
  • Facilitate, assist, or observe actual exercise/drill
  • Review observations, lessons learned, recommendations, and action plans
  • Participate in after exercise/drill follow-up meeting with client management

Review and Evaluation

• Reviewing client's continuity plans and methodology, per contracted parameters
  • Client's specific objectives of the review
  • Plan scope (business, geography, or otherwise)
  • Plan scale (depth and applicability of content)
  • Plan content and completeness
  • Intended audience for findings
  • Considerations and recommendations
• Follow-up meeting to discuss findings. Additional meetings can be contracted.

Prices

• Because each engagement is different and there are many variables, it's impossible to provide pricing online. Contact me for specific services and prices.