Biscon
Category - Business Continuity Management - Training listing
Address Ridley Cottage, High Street, Chalford, Glos, GL6 8DS, UK
WebSite www.biscon.co.uk
Telephone +44(0) 845 076 5637
Email info@biscon.co.uk
Contact Mick Bayne
Biscon Planning are a specialist business continuity consultancy, offering a complete range of business continuity products. The company has worked with a broad client base, delivering tailored solutions for both single and multi site companies, to both the public and private sector.
We have watched the industry grow and change over the years, and have developed our offerings accordingly. As companies have become more aware of their critical activities and requirements we have moved away from being pure consultants and towards a role best described as facilitators.
For large organisations, we arrange face to face meetings to allow us to gain an understanding of the business, its critical activities and the infrastructure it requires to function.
SMEs often think that their small size will protect them in the event of a disaster, or that they cannot afford the time or money to undergo the process of writing a business continuity plan. We keep the demands on individual’s time to a minimum with a workshop of key knowledge holders, prefaced by a questionnaire.
Both products have the same deliverables – a thorough Risk Assessment / Business Impact Analysis with prioritised action list, an Emergency Response Plan to educate staff in what to do in the event of a disaster, and a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan to get the critical activities back up and running in a timescale that the business has decided is acceptable.
Over time it has become clear that having a business continuity plan is only part of the solution. Key to the ability of an organisation to respond is the embedding of resilience. You need people aware of how they are to respond in the event of a disaster, not people who will be reaching for the BCP and thumbing through the contents! Biscon Planning have developed a selection of training courses designed around training, implementation and testing.
1. Awareness Training. The most basic knowledge level, designed to give participants an idea of what business continuity is, how it works, and why your company needs it.
2. Business Continuity Strategy. A course for those members of a company who have responsibility for defining what the business continuity strategy will be. It will look at where the company is now, where it is planning to be in the short, medium and long term and how to design a strategy that can develop with these changes.
3. Plan Implementation Training. For a plan to be at its most effective, the participants need to have a clear understanding of what their roles and responsibilities are. Using a series of hypothetical scenarios, this training exercise helps to clarify both what individuals are expected to do, and what they are not.
4. Scenario Based Plan Testing. A full desktop exercise involving all key individuals in the implementation of a plan.
If you would like to know more about these courses, or to talk to us about any other training needs, email us at info@biscon.co.uk, or visit our website www.biscon.co.uk. Members of Continuity Forum qualify for a 15% discount on listed prices.
If you would like to see you organisation listed on these pages please contact either Russell Price or Sara McKenna on + 44 (0) 208 993 1599 for further information.
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Creating Continuity ... Building Resilience ...
If you would like to know more about how your organisation can get involved and benefit from working with the Continuity Forum, please email us HERE! or call on + 44 (0) 208 993 1599.
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