The Miller Group works with your company to create a Business Continuation Plan (PLAN) to be used in the event of a disaster. A disaster can happen at any time and range in degree, from a seemingly shortphone service or power failure to a regional earthquake.
We work with your company to ask the proven questions to query about your business and operations and create a PLAN around your specific business to ensure your business continues (recovers) in the event of a disaster. The planning process usually takes between 2 to 4 months and ownership of the process is shared by both your company and The Miller Group. Shared ownership provides for greater success, as we know your business has busy times and during those times we assist in keeping the process moving forward.
The proven template we provide is a large step in having a PLAN in place, after just a few hours of effort by your planning team.
Our BCS does not end at the completion of the PLAN. We know that every business changes and the PLAN needs to be dynamic. We provide review services that schedule your business to revisit the PLAN with frequency.
The PLAN is only a part of our BCS. BCS is a full support service that incorporates data redundancy in our St. Louis or Springfield, MO, Data Centers. The duplication of your data can range from each month to immediate redundancy via bit level data duplication. We have clients that have existing data redundancy solutions and use BCS for the PLAN that we partner with existing solutions and other companies that use either one or both of our Data Centers to ensure they have quick access to their data so their disaster recovery is minimized and they can continue business operations as normal.
The costs associated with creating your PLAN is nominal compared to even a one-day disaster where your clients cannot contact you and/or your employees cannot work. The monthly reoccurring costs to host and maintain your redundant data on a dedicated server are less than most companies are charged for Internet connectivity. You CANNOT afford not to have a PLAN in place and your data located somewhere besides your business location.
Please email or call to discuss your business continuation plan and how we can help ensure you can continue business operations in the event of a disaster.
Our steps for Business Continuation Planning:
Create a planning team
Do the Business Continuation Assessment
Meet with planning team weekly and TMG to create a Plan
Create Plan
- Define responsibilities
- Collect Information
- Define disaster scenarios and thresholds
- Phone service is unavailable
- Power Failure to the building
- Internet Connection fails
- Building is inaccessible due to fire, water or safety
- Server crash and beyond immediate repair
- Natural or man-made disaster affecting region
- Test scenarios
- Deliver draft of PLAN
Publish the PLAN (present to management for approval)
Conduct meeting with employees to roll out the PLAN
Test the PLAN (table top and full scale)
Appoint personnel to modify PLAN (living document) and schedule testing
Call or Email to get started!
