Software Suite enabling Operational Resilience Management

Having a well-strategized crisis management plan is the need of the hour. To do your planning well, you need to integrate the following components:

• Activation protocol.
• Detailing plan of action.
• Structured communication strategies.

An effective crisis management plan has to include the following basics:

• Chain of command/administration.
• Risk assessment analysis.
• Response action plans.
• Internal and external communication/notification system.
• Resources made available externally or on the cloud.
• Training, exercising and reviewing.

With the right integration of humans and automation, plus the scope of business continuity management tools like business impact analysis (BIA), risk assessment (RA), and MIS reporting, it has become possible to automatically map out the impact of any disaster situation that might have on your business.
Here is a step-by-step list of measures to be taken to review your business continuity plan:

• Step 1– Brief your staff about the review beforehand to ensure everyone is aware of what to expect.
• Step 2– List down the new objectives beforehand to maintain transparency.
• Step 3– During the plan review, check how resilient different areas of the organization are, and how quickly you’ll be able to bounce back after a crisis.’
• Step 4– Focus on calculating the effectiveness of all the continuity plan phases.
• Step 5– Assess your contact lists, communication channels, supply chain, essential personnel, equipment, data backup, and restoration.
• Step 6– Evaluate the effectiveness of the main business continuity planning phases, like an initial response, availability of staff & resources, and recovery & restoration.

Business impact analysis is the first stage in identifying the impact that organizational disruptions might have on business processes. Without the business impact analysis, the business continuity planning will not be able to identify or prioritize which processes and systems must be kept functional during times of crisis and provide the necessary instructions for their upkeep.
The BIA highlights the results of an interrupted operation or activity due to a certain event of disruption and information that will be required to build new plans for the recovery process to initiate.

Planning business continuity involves ensuring that your business remains operational or can at least bounce back quickly after a disaster. Business continuity risk assessment is crucial before taking any other steps to develop organizational immunity. Hence here is how you do a risk assessment the right way-

• Identify the risks to your business, and maybe create an ascending order of these risks, as per the potential for damage.
• Analyze the impact of a disruption arising in a particular risk factor.
• Check the probability of the risk occurring once and recurring in the future.
• Think of ways to mitigate or control the risk exposure.
• Prepare a risk treatment plan that best works for your requirement.

A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is used to anticipate the consequences of a disruption to a business function or process and gather essential information necessary to devise recovery strategies. To ensure the success of a BIA, it typically incorporates these five key components:

• Executive sponsorship.
• Understanding of the organization.
• Business impact analysis tools.
• Business impact analysis processes.
• BIA findings.

Ascent supports the organization to migrate the current data to AutoResilience before the handover is completed to the client team. We also provide active support post going live for the duration of the warranty period agreed in the contract.

The deployment of AutoResilience software is swift. Select SaaS or on-premise model based on your requirement and our implementation team will do the rest.

AutoResilience is a simple business continuity software. It enables your workforce to plan, implement, and execute your business continuity plan easily.

AutoResilience encourages workforce participation in business continuity planning by providing role-based access to its users. It enables authorized access to the software and gives each individual a sense of ownership in the organization. By emphasizing the importance of the plan clearly and concisely, AutoResilience helps create a sustainable business continuity program that aligns everyone with the same goals.

Our tool is designed for the best user experience although as an exception we also cater you custom solutions as per your requirement.

While our software solution remains our primary product, we can also provide consultancy services to aid in the initial planning and implementation of the business continuity management process.

Both. Our system can be hosted internally or in the cloud; the decision is entirely up to the client.