How Industries Are Adapting To A Post-COVID-19 World
Every well-run business has plans in place to ensure the continuity of their operations in moments of crisis or disaster. In most cases, these may be in the form of business continuity plans, crisis management plans or even detailed pandemic plans. However, nothing tests theory quite like reality. With COVID-19 still fresh in the minds of your management and employees, this would be the best time to review your plans, assess which procedures and solutions work best for your organisation, and implement policies and strategies that are agile and resilient enough to respond to any types of crisis in the future.
A clear understanding of your supply chain will help to expose any potential vulnerabilities. This means identifying your key products and services and looking well beyond the first and second-tier suppliers or third parties. Taking action such as identifying single points of failures, alternative suppliers or third parties where possible, and having clear and appropriate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) embedded in your contracts will go a long way in helping to strengthen your supply chain during times of crisis.
Establishing a BCMS Through ISO22301
One of the key features of ISO22301 is that it is business focused and it must be driven by the business (not IT department), which is where many organisations assign the responsibility. ISO22301 utilizes a structured process to business continuity which starts with the identification of an organisation’s key products and services. It is then vital to complete a business impact analysis (BIA) which identifies the critical activities that support the products and services and their dependencies in the form of resources, other departments and third parties.
These activities represent the first and critical stage in the business continuity lifecycle and are followed by the determination of the business continuity strategy, developing a response including plans, exercising the plans, embedding business continuity in the organisation and putting in place a maintenance and review process. The whole of the business continuity process needs wrapping into a management system that ensures it is operating within a defined structure.
Achieving an Integrated BCMS
Achieving this optimum point is where we excel. We ensure that you gain maximum benefit from implementing ISO22301 by virtue of our experience of assisting multiple organizations in multiple industries and sectors through the certification process. Our consultancy services come not only with a 100% certification guarantee, but with the assurance that any implemented BCMS will be tailored, appropriate and sustainable — all embedded into your existing management processes.
Our approach to ISO22301 engagements is to first carry out a gap analysis of the organisation against the ISO22301 requirements to provide a clear picture where your organization already conform to the standards and where you do not. In fact, for specific work cases against a specific budget that you may have, this will be help scope the extent of the assistance that you would require from PNMS.
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