Utilities
Oversights and Expectations
Utilities are unique; they often contain multiple cultures, priorities, technology organizations, and levels of business continuity maturity within one organization. Overall, most do an excellent job of protecting assets and responding to incidents, but oftentimes do not place the same emphasis on internal functions. The challenge is establishing an internal facing business continuity program while acknowledging and leveraging the prevalent service and problem resolution culture.
Why BConView?
The objectives of BConView is that the business continuity planning process involves the recovery, resumption, and maintenance of the entire business, not just the technology component. While the restoration of IT systems and electronic data is important, recovery of these systems and data will not always be enough to restore business operations. It emphasizes on development of enterprise wide BCP and the prioritization of business objectives and critical operations that are essential for recovery. This framework should include a plan for short-term and long-term recovery operations. It places significant emphasis on governance, risk assessment, BIA, planning, testing and maintenance requirements.
Projects & Offerings
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Water: Provided BIA and risk assessment templates and improved plan documentation methodologiees. Enabled tracking of awareness and training events, plan documentation exercises. This allows for the Program’s continual execution, maintenance and improvement.
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Oil & Gas: Enable effective management of regulatory compliance enforced by policy and standard operating procedures and enabling the continuous execution, maintenance and improvement of critical activities that strengthen organizational resiliency.
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Power: Establish a BCMS that documents partner recovery capabilities and business continuity expectations. Provide a road map to improve performance.
