Case Studies

Public Sector

Teed consultants have helped numerous local authorities, emergency services organizations and other government bodies develop, implement and exercise their business continuity plans. Our methods and experience allows us to typically take a public sector organisation through this whole process with just 20-30 days of our input. As a comparison, it is not uncommon for an internal member of staff to take a year or more to achieve the same, whilst also taking up more staff and management time than is absolutely necessary.

Our approach allows us to pass on knowledge and methods to our clients’ staff that will allow ongoing planning, review, maintenance and exercising activity to be carried out internally. We may be asked to come back once or twice a year to provide training or an independent exercise but we like to ensure that our clients are self sufficient.

We recognise the importance of being able to continue to provide public services and having sound recovery strategies in place that will achieve this should the worst happen. Projects often focus initially upon considering the loss of office and ICT capability and we bring our experience to the table to allow inexpensive solutions and workarounds to be identified, where feasible.

At an appropriate stage it is important to extend the business continuity focus to include all the other threats to the services that you provide. Fuel strikes, severe weather, pandemic, industrial action, regional incidents, loss of suppliers and any other relevant threats should be considered from a business continuity perspective. However, plans should be sufficiently flexible to focus upon the impacts of an event rather than the cause as it is impossible to always predict what could disrupt our services – not many organizations had volcanic ash in their plans!