Business continuity planning

Assess, design, implement and manage

Effective enterprise wide IT and infrastructure risk and business resilience planning should be at the heart of your business. Maintaining operational stability means staying in the game when it comes to the business objectives your organization is set to achieve. Going down or slowing down can seriously affect your revenue—or even your organization's long-term survival. IBM works with you to understand your objectives and provides IT and infrastructure risk management and business resilience expertise to assess a range of risks to the IT resources and assets on which your business processes depend.

An available, end to end resiliency plan to put you ahead of the game

Using industry best practices and our Resilient Enterprise Blueprint approach, we can work with you to develop and manage a program that is aligned to your specific business needs and can create a reliable, more productive business environment. By reducing the risks related to noncompliance with contracts, industry standards, regulations and internal controls, we can help you link business planning and IT to business resiliency. The result: an integrated program aligned to your evolving business needs and risk tolerance levels.

IBM provides a full lifecycle of services:

• Assessment and planning
  • Identify overall risks and vulnerabilities of your environment
  • Evaluate plans, processes, procedures, roles and responsibilities for the continuity program
  • Map IT to your critical business processes
  • Create plans for reducing risk from the range of threats identified
• Design
  • Creates a design for more resilient IT and physical infrastructure
• Implementation
  • Assists you in implementing your plans
  • Validation and periodic testing of plans
  • Updating plans due to changes in business conditions (acquisition, consolidation, expansion)
• Program management
  • Provides management of your risk and resilience program, including reporting

A continuity and resilience plan that is up to the test

At some point, it's very likely that the plans you are making now for maintaining continuous business operations will be put to the test. With business process expertise and more than 40 years of worldwide experience in business continuity, we can help you identify and fill gaps in your current business continuity strategy and guide you through the complex standards, practices and regulations that affect your business continuity program.