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FAST Continuity Programme

The FAST approach has turned business continuity on its head. It's made continuity an affordable and practical part of any business.

Fixed fee not day rate, fraction of the cost of traditional approach, delivers accurate results quickly with no rework. Designed to be cost effective for Medium sized companies, but delivers similar cost advantages and quality regardless of your size.

FAST makes all this possible by using revolutionary scenario based planning. This works by using scenarios to test your business, capturing the info you need for your business continuity directly into your plans. Traditional approaches use scenarios as the last step to prove the assumptions and data discovered from extensive interviews and analysis. Time and time again, when we came to do the scenarios, like all our peers, we found major gaps in our plans. When we start with scenarios this problem goes away and the effort required to complete the assignment shrinks!

FAST Continuity Programme consists of these phases:

1. Start with FAST scenario based assessment to understand what’s critical, what you have to really do to survive, what you will stop doing and identify the gaps in your existing provisions.

2. Pull together a Business Recovery Plan that sets out what you’ll do to keep in business if disaster strikes and create the team to deliver it.

3. Set out and budget for a remediation plan to close any gaps in your capability or enhancements.

4. Design, Deliver and Test any business continuity solutions.

5. Raise awareness, embed BCM in your change process and update your plans.

Repeat annually starting at 1

FAST Features

Though these steps are important, the first is key as it's what make our approach unique. It’s the step that’s revolutionary, breaks the mould of Business Continuity and drives value for our clients. When these steps are concluded you will have:

ü BS25999 compliant - meets the new continuity standard

ü Proven Business Continuity Plan

ü Trained Business recovery team.

ü Proven recovery for your technology and people.

ü Risk and Threat assessment

ü All the elements in place to satisfy your customers demands for BCM.

ü All processes and procedures necessary to run in and transition to DR.

ü Auditable exercise logs and evidence of control

ü Business Continuity Management System that if followed will maintain both capability and compliance.

FAST Benefits

	Our consultants spend less time spent onsite.
	You staff have far less work to do.
	A viable Business Continuity Plan is available in days not months.
	Rework is almost eliminated.
	The costs are a fraction of traditional approach.
	You have a Business Continuity Management system that will maintain your capability and compliance.

If this really is this good why don’t the big 4 do it?

The reason is three fold:

They exist to sell consultancy time, they’re not interested in driving down the amount of consultancy time from a cash cow like Business Continuity.
Practitioners resist change because they have invested a lot of time and effort to get the knowledge they have and don’t want to loose that perceived advantage.
Revolutionary ideas are rarely copied to begin with! Howard Aitkin, co-inventor of the first computer pointed out, “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas, when an ideas original you’ll have to ram it down their throats!”

FASTer approaches that offer value to the client and a fair reward to the consultant will in time replace traditional continuity approaches. However, it will take years to get the critical mass of adopters to force the big practices to change.

Who qualifies

While our approach is easy to apply to any Business, success comes from working together. Unfortunately, some businesses are unable to make the necessary changes or share responsibility. For this reason and because we’re passionate about delivering our next success story. We will only work with Businesses that have the qualities, commitment and potential to make a great team.

The results

Working with us, means that you’ll have a business that churns out profits no matter what fortune throws in your path. You’ll have everything you need to keep customers that are now starting to demand auditable continuity from their supply chain and you’ll be able to pitch for business in the most lucrative segments like financial services and government that now mandate continuity.

Precedent

Our approach and the strategies that underpin it arise from our experience delivering hundreds of continuity solutions and exercises in some of the most demanding environments. What’s more we’ve been both sides of the supply chain i.e. asking suppliers for continuity and responding to our customer’s demands for continuity. We know exactly what it takes and we get our clients there without any fuss.

The results speak for themselves. Our clients have accommodated exponential growth in continuity without experiencing anything more than a modest increase in costs. Many clients have seen the total cost come down.

The return on investment is almost always repaid several times over inside the duration of typical contract. This is possible for 3 reasons:

FAST focuses people on just enough continuity and makes a clear distinction between planning for what might happen and investing in what will.
Open Continuity take most of the fixed costs,
Our clients focus on their businesses not ours and use the insights to improve what matters most and target new segments for growth!

Why we’re different and why we’ll deliver

We’re unique because in bringing big business continuity to medium sized businesses, we've found a better balance between value for the client and reward for the consultant. Not only that, our apporach has been proven better and quicker than traditional approaches. Last but not least, we’re different because we speak your language and focus on local medium sized businesses, so we are better able to help you introduce the changes you want in your business in the shortest possible time.

What to do next

If you’re interested in finding out more about business continuity and what it can do for you . Contact your Open Continuity consultant Jamie on 07894 906 559 or mail him at jamie.watters@OpenContinuity.com for a free Continuity Assessment session.

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