According to the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) - Business Continuity Management is a management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organization and provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an effective response which safeguards the interests of its key stake holders, reputation, brand and value creating activities.

According to wikipedia.org - Business Continuity and is the activity performed by an organization to ensure that critical business functions will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other entities that must have access to those functions. These activities include many daily chores such as project management, system backups, change control, and help desk. Business continuity is not something implemented at the time of a disaster; Business Continuity refers to those activities performed daily to maintain service, consistency, and recoverability.

Wikipedia further breaks down Business Continuity Planning - as “planning which identifies the organization's exposure to internal and external threats and synthesizes hard and soft assets to provide effective prevention and recovery for the organization, whilst maintaining competitive advantage and value system integrity”.^[1] It is also called Business continuity & Resiliency planning (BCRP). The logistical plan used in BCP is called a business continuity plan. The intended effect of BCP is to ensure business continuity, which is an ongoing state or methodology governing how business is conducted.

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is defined above.  This means BCM is therefore inclusive of disaster recovery, business recovery, crisis management, incident management, emergency management, product recall, contingency planning and just plain old ‘plan B’.

Continuity Co., LLC provides complete, comprehensive, and holistic business continuity solutions for our clients ensuring their ability to operate after and ideally during a disruption or disaster.

Disruptions come in many forms ranging from an earthquake and hurricanes to pandemics and fires; however, disruptions are not limited to just these events.

Today we have to worry about other issues which constitute a disaster to your business operations. These can be anything from terrorism, workplace violence, and negative press affecting the image or brand of your company, to civil unrest and employee sabotage. Let's not forget workforce disruptions like strikes, or sudden supply chain disruptions to name just a few.

Any of these scenarios and more can be considered a disaster for your business, especially if caught off guard and with no proper planning in place.

Continuity Co., LLC goes the extra mile in forming a true partnership with our clients in order to help them establish proper Business Continuity Management (BCM) programs so they can continue operations during times of disaster.

In some cases we may be able to help you company achieve an instant Return on Investment (ROI) and additionally find hidden value.

To see how Continuity Co., LLC can help you with your business continuity management planning call us today

877-565-8324

Imagine going to work in the morning only to discover that during the night a fire or flood occurred and damaged your documents, computers and all the data at that location. Imagine further still, that the damage to the building is extensive rendering the building unusable.

To make matters worse, an important client is already on the way to have a meeting with you and your staff. Now...What are you going to do? Do you have a plan? How do you communicate with everyone? Who do you call first? Where will you go? How will you get there? Will you be able to recover the information that was lost? Can you recover at all?

Here at Continuity Co., LLC we provide the answers to these questions everyday. Answers to tough questions you may have never given any thought to, but are essential for continuing your business operations after a disruption or disaster.

Remember, business disruptions can come in many forms ranging from an earthquake or hurricane to pandemics and fires. However, disruptions are not limited to these events and can include anything that disrupts your normal business operations such as a power outage, email issues, website problems, civil unrest, terrorism, supply chain problems, bad press, bad business decisions, employee sabotage and more.

Continuity Co., LLC has complete solutions to assist you with your disaster mitigation, response, recovery, and preparedness needs and can create your entire plan, review your current plan, conduct one-off assessments and risk analysis, and even act as a resource during your recovery efforts. Whether you need off-site data backups, alternate work-sites, virtualization, replacement equipment, or cloud based solutions Continuity Co., LLC has you covered.

Still think it can't happen to you or your business? Consider the story of Tessco Technologies below:

“To show how unforeseeable a disaster can be, for TesscoTechnologies, located outside Baltimore, Maryland thought it had little to fear. It was not in a flood zone, not in an earthquake zone and devastating hurricanes were more than hundred year events. But in the case of Tessco, the culprit was a faulty fire hydrant. One outside its Hunt Valley data center failed spectacularly on October 12, 2002 and several hundred thousand gallons of water blasted through a concrete wall leaving the company’s primary data center under several feet of water and left some 1400 hard drives and 400 SAN disks soaking wet and caked with mud and debris.” - 

Baltimore Business Journal (June 23, 2003). Computer World (November 17, 2003) See also Nth Generation Computing (August, 2007) See: http://www.nth.com/Data-Recovery-Clients/profile.asp?id=9. Also http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2003/06/23/daily28.html, and http://www.disasterhelp.com/images/Computerworld_Article.pdf