Organisations face numerous threats to their business. It is crucial to know the weak spots and prepare for disruptive events before they occur. Map your threats, lower the risks, manage critical situations and implement backup procedures to ensure business continuity.
Global risks such as climate change, pandemic flu and economic instability have highlighted the vulnerability of wider supply chains. Local incidents like fire, flooding, fraud or industrial accidents have the potential to interrupt businesses, cut share prices and damage reputations.
Stakeholders expect businesses to contribute more to society, and social or environmental incidents in the supply chain can severely threaten an organisation’s ability to safeguard its interests.
These kinds of threats make it necessary for organisations to prepare for disruptive events in order to ensure sustainable performance.
What are the benefits?
By following the best practice guidance set out in the business continuity management standard BS 25999, your organisation can effectively face a crisis and ensure:
• Organisational survival and effective recovery
• Increased stakeholder confidence
• Competitive advantage
• Operational and supply chain resilience
• Demonstration of good corporate governance
How we can help you
DNV helps organisations prepare and protect themselves from the impact of business interruptions. We provide in-depth analysis of an organisation’s needs and risk situation
and subsequently provide assistance with the creation of business continuity strategies and plans.
Our approach focuses on sector specific topics and requirements such as the Civil Contingencies Act whilst at the same time adhering to best practice standards like BS 25999.
We offer support for:
• Gap analysis of business continuity management systems against BS 25999
• Business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning
• Supply chain continuity planning and resilience
• Incident management planning including flu pandemic
• Business impact and risk analysis
• Development of business continuity strategies
• Testing of plans from desktop exercises to full simulation
• Independent audit and assurance of business continuity
• Benchmarking of business continuity management against best practice
Why partner with DNV
We are a global provider of services for managing risk, helping customers to safely and responsibly improve their business performance. As companies today are operating in an increasingly more complex and demanding risk environment, our core competence is to identify, assess, and advise on how to manage risk.
Our technology expertise and industry knowledge, combined with our risk management
approach, have been used to manage the risks involved in numerous high-profile projects around the world.
Organised as an independent, autonomous foundation, we balance the needs of business and society, based on our independence and integrity. With the objective of safeguarding life, property and the environment, we serve a range of industries.
Established in 1864, DNV has a global presence with a network of 300 offices in 100 countries, and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Our prime assets are the knowledge and expertise of our 9,000 employees from 98 nations.
DNV is a gold partner with Business Continuity Institute (BCI), a leading organisation working to promote the art and science of business continuity management worldwide.