How can you be sure your business continuity plans deal effectively with a wide range of potential disruptions or disasters? How can you be certain all the elements of your complex enterprise will recover using these plans? A comprehensive, multi-dimensional and on-going BCP testing program is the only way to achieve the level of confidence you and your senior executives expect– a highly resilient business. BCP testing experts from Strohl Consulting Services can design, manage and help execute a testing program for your organization with consultants available to:

• Assess your test experience and BCP objectives
• Recommend the type of tests that validate your enterprise’s recovery objectives
• Design a long range testing program with clear, usable management metrics
• Prepare meaningful test scenarios, learning objectives and success criteria
• Manage the staging and execution of scheduled tests
• Use automated command center tools to capture auditable, team actions, communication details, improvements and lessons learned during the test
• Develop post-test action plans to fill the gaps, prioritize organizational issues and plan improvements to your business continuity program.
• Recommend training and awareness curricula for test participants
• Review/Analyze the integration of plan maintenance and testing
• Develop training programs for future BCP test managers.

Consider the number of “bad” things that can happen to your organization and the complexity of your enterprise’s day-to-day operations. You can’t afford NOT to test these possibilities early, often and in a realistic environment. Let Strohl Consulting Services be your guide and Incident Manager be your testing tool.