Case Study
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Business continuity management on a global scale
The structured implementation of a BCM
strategy throughout 102 discrete and diverse business units for
a global UK manufacturing and retail organisation presented quite
a challenge.
With annual turnovers in excess of £1bln
and with manufacturing and sales operations extending across Europe,
North and South America and the Far East, this organisation needed
to implement a consistent and standardised approach to Business
Continuity Planning and Management.
Needing skills in both Business Continuity Management,
to achieve the primary goal, and Project management to control the
process. Simply getting all the right people in the right place
at the right time was a significant achievement. Run over a three
month period with a dedicated team of 4 consultants, this project
was split into two distinct phases. Starting with a number of regional
BCM workshops in the UK, Sweden, USA, Canada and Singapore to introduce
the BCM Methodology and brainstorm business risks, the workshops
were followed up with a BCM review schedule to test the integrity,
breadth and depth of individual business unit plans.
Having successfully brought together different
areas of the business, working together to identify business risks
and internal constraints and dependencies etc, it was possible to
introduce a standardised approach to continuity management and integrate
this with the company's existing Control Risk Self Assessment processes.
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