Business Preparedness Programs
We here at the Erwood Group provide a wide variety of proprietary programs to enhance your business resilience through our business preparedness programs. Below are some of our most popular business preparedness programs including our advisement retainer, business continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, Crisis management programs and more.
C.A.R.E.S Program
Introducing the C.A.R.E.S Program—our proprietary Continuity And Recovery Execution System crafted to build resilient and enduring businesses. Specifically designed for Small and Medium Enterprises, this “Done With You” program ensures you can swiftly and efficiently establish a comprehensive business preparedness solution.
The C.A.R.E.S Program combines our proven methodologies with your unique business needs to create a tailored approach to risk management, business continuity, and recovery planning. Engage with us to fortify your enterprise against potential disruptions, ensuring you remain robust and responsive in any business climate.
Trusted Advisor Programs
Our Trusted Advisor Program equips enterprises and key personnel with direct access to expert advisors during critical moments. Designed for executives, managers, and essential staff, this program offers guidance on navigating risks, crises, IT disaster recovery, and strategic recovery planning. We provide flexible retainer options tailored to your needs, available in 6-month or 1-year terms, with initial advisement retainers set for six months.
To ensure personalized attention and premium service, we cap the number of available retainer seats each term, making our Trusted Advisors an exclusive resource for your business continuity and crisis management efforts.
Risk Assessment Programs
The Erwood Group proudly offers a proprietary Risk Assessment tool, meticulously designed to align with NFPA 1600 and other critical Business Continuity standards. This essential component of our IMPACT Tools suite is available at no cost, ensuring that every business can access our Basic Risk Assessment tool for free.
By integrating this tool into your business planning, you can evaluate potential risks with precision and confidence, supporting proactive management and strategic alignment. Click below to obtain more information and start enhancing your organization’s risk management capabilities today.
Risk Management Programs
Our Risk Management Program offers a comprehensive solution beyond the basic risk assessment, ideal for businesses seeking to actively manage their risks with precision. This advanced tool is not just for assessing risks—it’s designed to monitor, track, and manage them effectively. By integrating our sophisticated risk management tool into your business strategy, you gain the capability to oversee and control potential threats systematically.
This proactive approach ensures that your organization can anticipate and mitigate risks before they escalate, safeguarding your business operations and enhancing your strategic decision-making process.
Business Impact Analysis
The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a fundamental component of any robust business preparedness program, setting the stage for effective continuity planning and disaster recovery. Our comprehensive BIA process meticulously gathers essential data and information, laying the groundwork for your organization’s resilience strategies. Through our proven systems and methodologies, we ensure thorough identification and documentation of critical business functions and dependencies.
This crucial insight forms the backbone of your business continuity plans, enabling precise and proactive disaster recovery preparations. Engage with our BIA service to fortify your business against unforeseen disruptions.
Financial Impact Analysis
Our Financial Impact Analysis Program, enhanced by our Impact Tool Downtime Calculator, simplifies the process of quantifying financial impacts and downtime costs for your business. This comprehensive analysis not only pinpoints your costs but also aligns crucial recovery metrics—Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and Maximum Allowable Downtime (MAD)—with your financials.
This integration provides valuable insights into your insurance requirements and other critical financial decisions, empowering you to make informed choices that safeguard your operations and optimize financial resilience.
Strategy Selection Programs
Our Strategy Selection methodology streamlines the process of integrating effective contingency and recovery strategies into your business continuity plans. Tailored to meet the unique demands of your enterprise, our system enables businesses to swiftly choose from a range of strategic options, categorized into immediate, short-term, mid-term, and long-term solutions.
This approach not only enhances your recovery capabilities but also ensures that your strategy aligns perfectly with the specific recovery needs and timelines of your organization. Optimize your preparedness and resilience by adopting our targeted Strategy Selection methodology.
Plan Building Programs
Our Plan Building Program is designed to guide you through the creation of comprehensive business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management plans. Whether you’re engaging with our expert consultants, participating in our group consulting program, or opting for a do-it-yourself approach, our program is structured to support your specific needs.
This versatile offering ensures that regardless of how you choose to develop your plans—collaboratively or independently—you have access to tailored tools and expert advice every step of the way. Enhance your organizational resilience by building robust plans with our comprehensive Plan Building Program.
IT Disaster Recovery
Our IT Disaster Recovery Program is tailored to support overextended IT teams grappling with the daily challenges of maintaining complex systems like virtualization, hybrid clouds, and high availability (HA) environments. These complexities often hinder effective disaster recovery planning and documentation. Our program simplifies these processes by standardizing documentation methods and reducing complexities across your organization. We provide comprehensive training and methodologies that enhance your IT team’s capabilities and confidence in their disaster recovery strategies. Empower your IT department with the tools and knowledge to ensure robust and reliable disaster recovery preparedness.
Crisis Management Programs
Our Crisis Management Program equips organizational leaders and crisis teams with the tools and training necessary to effectively plan, prepare, and respond to crises. We guide you in developing comprehensive crisis management plans, from establishing clear protocols and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to implementing a robust crisis notification system for team members. Our services also extend to crafting detailed communication plans for both internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, we offer support by augmenting your crisis response team with expert guidance and advisement during critical events, disasters, or disruptions that impact your business, ensuring you navigate these challenges with confidence.
Cybersecurity Programs
Cybersecurity is a critical component of any organization’s Business Preparedness Planning. At the Erwood Group, our comprehensive Cybersecurity Program offers a range of services from basic system and dark web monitoring to advanced policy management and employee training. Our offerings extend to Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) services, including Virtual and Fractional CISO options. We emphasize the importance of educating employees at all levels to recognize both potential and actual threats, empowering them to act as the first line of defense. This proactive approach significantly enhances your organization’s ability to safeguard against cyber threats effectively.
Exercise Programs
At the Erwood Group, we uphold that rigorous training and frequent exercises are crucial for achieving operational excellence. Our unique Learn, Practice, Implement, Challenge™ methodology is designed to maximize the benefits of repetitive training, which include enhanced performance, greater confidence, muscle memory development, improved outcomes, and refined strategy formulation. By engaging regularly in these structured exercises, participants are pushed towards peak performance, ensuring that they are well-prepared to handle real-world challenges effectively. We advocate for frequent exercise sessions as a means to reach and maintain the highest level of preparedness and response capability.
Developing contingency Programs
When your business needs to develop its contingency and business preparedness program, go with the experts. The Erwood Group can take you from zero planning to a best-in-class program in less than a year. Let us help your business to stand out as a shining example of how to do things the right way in your industry. Our professional contingency programs help you do just that!
Our team of amazing consultants will work with you one-on-one or in small groups remotely or at your site to create exceptional resilience programs to make your business noticeable in all the right ways. We’ll help protect your business and legacy.
Flexible for Your Needs
We understand that building your business makes your schedule unpredictable. For that reason, we don’t want to add to the chaos, so our consultants maintain a flexible schedule to meet your needs on your timeframe.
Contact us today for more details, to get a free quote on our services or to schedule an appointment.
Programs to Boost Your Business’ Resilience
- Business Impact Analysis: This program sets the foundation for your business continuity plan. Our experts will uncover your critical processes, set recovery time objectives (RTOs) recovery point objectives (RPOs), and the Maximum Allowable Downtime (MAD) of your business.
- Business Continuity Program: You don’t just need a plan to make you more resilient, you need an effective and polished program with effective strategies to help you recover. Our team of experts can take you from zero planning to an effective program in six months.
- Crisis Management: Learn crisis management from the people who have been through multiple crises. From setting up your crisis management team, leading the team, and communicating with stakeholders and the press. Let us introduce you to crisis leadership.
- Exercises: From introductory tabletops to full-scale functional exercises at our location or yours. We partner with an award-winning Hollywood special effects team to take your mature crisis team training to the next level.
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