What this service addresses
Business continuity planning should help teams respond quickly when operations are disrupted. Ramsay Resilience Group identifies critical business functions, completes business impact and dependency analysis, defines recovery priorities and responsibilities, and develops usable continuity and fallback procedures around how the organization actually works.
Why this matters
Many organizations have a continuity document but still lack clear recovery priorities, defined downtime limits, tested fallback procedures, or assigned responsibilities. Those gaps become costly when staffing, equipment, suppliers, facilities, or technology fail.
Who this service is for
When to consider this service
- Critical work depends on one person, vendor, facility, or system
- Recovery priorities are debated only after an interruption begins
- Manual fallback procedures are undocumented or untested
- The existing plan has not been reviewed through a realistic exercise
Deliverables within the agreed scope
Business impact analysis defining critical functions and acceptable downtime
Dependency map covering people, equipment, facilities, vendors, data, and systems
Role-based response structure with escalation and decision authority
Scenario-specific continuity and operational fallback playbooks
Communication protocols, maintenance schedule, and exercise recommendations
What the work is intended to support
- Clearer recovery priorities and decision authority
- Reduced delay and improvisation during disruption
- Better alignment between leadership, operations, safety, and IT
- A business continuity plan teams can maintain, test, and use during disruption
What to expect
- 01Define critical operations, disruption risks, recovery objectives, and stakeholders
- 02Analyze critical functions, impact thresholds, and hidden dependencies
- 03Design continuity strategies, fallback procedures, and response roles
- 04Review the plan with leadership, test key procedures, and establish a maintenance schedule
Frequently asked questions
Can you review an existing continuity plan?
Yes. Existing plans can be evaluated for dependency coverage, role clarity, communication, maintenance, test readiness, and whether procedures match actual operations before deciding whether targeted corrections or a broader rebuild is appropriate.
Does continuity planning require a complete shutdown scenario?
No. The work can address partial outages, staffing gaps, supplier failure, equipment loss, facility constraints, communication breakdowns, and degraded operations as well as full interruption.
