What if your entire management team was skilled in a proven business continuity discipline following a simple standardized methodology? Over time planning sophistication could be enhanced as they gain confidence through success. But to implement this enterprise process, you need a winning strategy and commitment from senior management and those who will support the program. Think of this in the same way your management team knows how to prepare a budget and conduct employee performance reviews. They have discipline and methods they must apply and a support infrastructure that ensures consistency of results and sustainability of the program. As with budgeting and performance reviews, business continuity skill must be instilled in every manager who has responsibility for critical business functions.

To get started, Virtual Corporation can help you design the implementation strategies you will need to frame your program and obtain executive commitment to the plan. Virtual Corporation's proven approach integrates a highly customizable executive business impact analysis with our unprecedented success at designing practical, achievable BC programs.

The executive BIA engages executive to understand the work effort required to implement a sustainable BC program.

Through interviews, Virtual’s consultants assess organization exposures, threats and risks and the adverse business impacts that might occur. Furthermore, we reach agreement with executives on prioritizing recovery of critical operations and define the launch sequence for all operations to be included in BC program scope. That could be only business recovery, IT-disaster recovery, or crisis management, or some integrated combination of these central BC disciplines.

In parallel, we work with your BC ‘core team’ to:

• Define resources (BC delivery organization) required to achieve sustainable program
• Develop the implementation plan based on thorough understanding of work to be done and how it can be practically achieved within the organization
• Document costs, timetable and resource requirements to achieve objectives
• Gain senior management commitment to and participation in the program launch

Through many years of practical experience and in recognition of the importance of senior management commitment, Virtual Corporation has developed a highly efficient BC delivery organization model that is applied to all initiatives we undertake.  This model is sensitive to workload distribution between internal and consulting resources.  Virtual Corporation is committed to maximizing knowledge transfer while minimizing client's consulting costs. As such, Virtual Corporation involves client resources early and wherever prudent and practical.  Our Project Executive will work with you to identify the project resources and define a program delivery organization that best achieves these results.

No two business continuity projects are the same. Virtual Corporation emphasizes the importance of tailoring its methods, templates and tools to each unique client’s situation and objectives. Wherever possible, Virtual Corporation leverages our existing tools database to minimize project development time and client expense.