Business continuity and supply chain disruption are often inextricably linked. Supply chain risk, resilience and vulnerability analysis are all subsets of effective business continuity planning. In turn, business continuity planning is a logical and necessary part of sound quality management and corporate governance.
In a globalised economy, business continuity can no longer be assured simply by focusing on a single business, enterprise or even industry. The collateral impact of a disruption, whether it be man-made or a natural disaster, can spread far and wide with consequences being felt in some of the most indirect and unlikely places. To survive, potentially unscathed, a robust and rigorous business continuity program is essential.
The process for developing an effective business continuity system is straight forward:
- Analyse the business function and identify the critical activities and dependencies.
- Identify the potential obstacles (and their impact) to the achievement of the critical activities.
- Design and implement mitigation paths to reduce/eliminate the impact of the obstacles.
- Test the effectiveness of the mitigation paths and improve where necessary.
RubiKon’s experience in implementing integrated planning and management processes to assure business continuity can help your organisation prevent an emerging crisis from turning into an organisational catastrophe. Our subject matter experts can implement a total solution addressing the entire extended enterprise or deliver a strategically targeted, function specific continuity and recovery path.
Whether your organisation’s weaknesses are at the emergency response stage, the continuation stage or the recovery stage (or all of them), RubiKon will provide a tailored outcome that will improve your resilience and enhance your ability to survive the unexpected.