Business resilience planning is a sound commercial investment where the benefits far outweigh the costs. Not having a course of action if a devastating disaster or service interruption occurs may result in total loss of the business or significant reputational damage. Additionally regulatory, shareholder and governance obligations to protect the lives and assets of the organisation need to be safeguarded.

How KPMG can help

An effective business resiliency plan must include an integrated and synchronised approach across all stages of a disaster event timeline.

Services we can provide that will help you with include:

Prepare	Business impact analysis Business continuity plan Insurance arrangements Training and awareness sessions Scenario based exercises Resilience and risk management maturity assessment
Respond	Emergency response Crisis management
Recovery	Crisis management IT disaster recovery services
Restore	Business continuity services Lessons learned

 

Why resilience matters

There are continued threats that we often don’t believe will occur on our patch.  These include but are not limited to:

• Extreme weather events
• Significant earthquakes
• Flooding
• Fire
• Extended power disruption
• International or national supply chain disruption
• Civil unrest
• Terrorism
• Biosecurity and ecoterrorism
• Cyber security incident
• Catastrophic IT event
• Health and Safety events, including loss of staff
• Legislation changes
   

Whilst the likelihood of these risks occurring may be assessed within your business as low, these can have a significant impact on your ‘business as usual’ operating level.  As a result we believe it is essential to ensure your business and staff know what to do during a severe incident, your systems can recover effectively, and you can prioritise recovery strategies to support your business regaining efficient operations as quickly as possible.
 

Why chose KPMG

KPMG brings together in-depth resilience knowledge and experience gained from working across several different industries, both locally and internationally. KPMG’s business resilience team is skilled in assessing businesses readiness and recovery priorities, and developing clients’ resilience capabilities.  We provide fit for purpose solutions to enable our client’s businesses to have effective systems and procedures in place, supporting minimal impact and ensuring business continuity can be achieved.