Business Continuity consultant based in Manchester

BUSINESS CONTINUITY

ParkinsonHowe has been delivering business continuity since 1998 and understands the issues and constraints your business may have.

Proven Expertise

Track record in Business Continuity that extends over 20 years.
Leading Edge

We work with industry leaders to ensure our solutions are best of breed.
Flexibility

We understand that your needs will change over time.

CONTINUITY SERVICES

understanding your business

Correctly understanding your business is vital in scoping a Business Continuity project. ParkinsonHowe will guide and assist. […]
strategy & Business impact analysis development

An assessment of a business detailing the impact that would be felt if it were unable to operate normally due to a major incident. […]
developing & implementing bcm

The means by which the evacuation, escalation and notification part of a company's response to an incident is managed. The 'front-end' of a Business Continuity Plan […]
developing a bcm culture

An examination of external and internal recovery solutions appropriate to the company's recovery requirements. […]
Exercise & Testing

The execution of Recovery Plans in a "safe" environment, to assess the plans' effectiveness, identify weaknesses and improvements. […]
MAINTENANCE & AUDIT

These can take many forms but are designed to ensure that all staff are kept informed (in varying degrees of detail) […]

Did you know?

of companies experienced difficulties in understanding the type of exercises and testing they should perform.
of medium to large organisations felt that a company wide business continuity plan gave them the all they required
of business impact assessments where not analysed for improvements and strategies

ENDORSEMENTS

We engaged ParkinsonHowe for a business continuity consultancy engagement. They exhibited complete professionalism right from the beginning - understanding the problem, to the end - provided us with the root causes and corrective action processes. I am very much satisfied with their services.

Business Continuity Director
Rockwell Collins
ParkinsonHowe helped us to develop an innovative approach to our business continuity. They work very professionally and autonomously allowing the team to resolve our day-to-day work, the result was a project delivered on time and to budget with valued results.

Continuity Project Manager
TOTAL E&P Indonesie

Business Continuity Approach

Our Background
We offer a wide range of BCM (Business Continuity Management) and risk consulting for industries across the UK, Europe, and the US. We have the required expertise to help you put Business Continuity in place and help your business manage any concern and recover from business impacting event. Whether the issue is be technological, natural, or other. We will partner with your business to evolve your recovery ideas into best practice business continuity and crisis management solutions.

Over many years we have built up an extensive portfolio of consulting, implementing, and auditing services your business can draw upon. Our business continuity services cater for all shapes and sizes of companies, from small to multinationals.
What we do
To develop an ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) takes time particularly around the refinement of the processes and documentation. One of the critical factors is the business agreeing on recovery strategies and contingency arrangements not only for IT systems but employees and the supply chain.

With this in mind ParkinsonHowe assist and alleviate as much of the worry as possible, by utilising previous work for Business continuity systems. Any work carried out on the management system is usually prepared using your existing approach, however because we have developed many management systems, we can call upon our existing templates. This significantly speeds up the consultancy process and will allow your business to gain further assurance to improve timescales.

The end-costs of our consultancy frequently prove to be a nice surprise, due in some part to ParkinsonHowe coordinating with you, but working independent of day-to-day business decisions.
What we provide

With a proven track record for helping organisations achieve and/or maintain ISO 22301 certification using our structured methodology and tools, ParkinsonHowe consultants can help you to develop, implement, operate and manage an BCMS efficiently and effectively by providing expert advice relating to all aspects of compliance and certification to ISO 22301:2012 including:
- Assisting in Understanding the Context of the Organisation
- Assisting in Scoping & implementation of ISO 22301
- Conducting Gap analysis
- Developing workable strategies for the continuity of business
- Conducting and analysing the Risk assessment
- Assisting in defining the Security improvement programmes
- Assisting in continual Compliance & certification processes
- Conducting, maintaining and improving an BCMS Internal ISO 22301 audits

UNDERSTANDING YOUR BUSINESS
It is important during the early stages of any business continuity implementation to clearly establish the objectives of the project. When implementing a business continuity system, the organisation must make a prior, clear decision on whether it will cover the whole organisation or just certain products or services. Such issues in relation to the strategy of the business with regard to business continuity will require discussion with the top managment and the project team to ensure alignment. This discussion will also form part of the scoping, project plan and schedule. These will be formalised within the Project Control Document

STRATEGY & BUSINESS IMPACT ANALYSIS DEVELOPMENT
The objectives of this task are to understand how quickly each critical activity needs to be recovered. This information is needed to guide the recovery strategies. The BIA should have:
- Identified the key dependencies for each critical activity and identify risks to each
- Helped in better understand the impacts of disruption and determine the maximum tolerable period of disruption
- Determined the minimum level of activity and the recovery objective of each
The BIA review is essential to ensure that sensible recovery time objectives are set for each activity/process. If recovery time objectives are set too tight, it can result in inefficient and excessive recovery strategies. It is also important that the recovery time objectives are consistent with one another, so that activities are prioritised and resources allocated efficiently

DEVELOPING & IMPLEMENTING BCM
We have the ability and knowledge to deliver the most cost effective and certifiable ISO27001 implementation to meet your needs, whether that be:
- Documents in MSWord or Excel.
- Cloud based solutions
We have the knowledge, understanding and have worked on many different solutions, always bearing in mind that getting the best solution for you is paramount.

DEVELOPING A BCM CULTURE
We work and audit for a number of certification bodies and therefore are best placed and competent to conduct an internal audit that will firstly meet your requirements and secondly meet Certification and accreditation rules.

During our work we will seek to clarify ask for the following information
- Understand your current operational management system.
- Review your policies, procedures, and work instructions.
- Identify gaps in your implementation of ISO22301:2012.
- Recommend security controls appropriate to your requirements.
- Internal audit timescales that match your current certification.
- Control testing to verify that control owbers are working within established limits.
- Process audit to verify that processes are working within established limits.
- Produce and deliver audit reports that meet ISO, UKAS and certification body standards.
All these areas can initially be confusing, and we are here to assist.

EXERCISE & TESTING
If you are looking to have a resource manage your BCMS for a short time or maybe long term then we are more than happy to assist, we will work with your business and guide you for the lifecycle of certification and beyond. Should the standard change, we are in the best position to review and manage the changes in your management system.

MAINTENANCE & AUDIT
ParkinsonHowe on request can perform ISO 22301 or BCI GPG mock certification or adherence audits which will provide you with the following benefits:
- Understand the requirements of certification and the rules.
- Provides you with an understand of the weaknesses and areas to be addressed the certification audit.
- Allows the organisation to understand the audit processes.
- Educates the control owners in understand what is required in terms of documentation and evidence when supporting the certification audit.

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