Business continuity management (BCM) is an agenda that recognizes exposure to internal and external threats facing an organization. The aim of BCM is to insulate the organization from such threats and equip them a palpable capability to respond to these threats. BCM consultants help clients to design a business continuity framework and processes for handling major operational disruptions. The BCM consultant evaluates the organization business mission, functions and activities, and gives advice on vulnerabilities and high risk areas that could potentially cause business disruptions or loss of corporate equities. On the basis of these findings, the BCM Consultant designs and builds a customized BCM system befitting the client's business continuity needs including those of its key stakeholders.
When the performance of an organization to be below expectation, top management would seek to carry out a risk management exercise to identify functional areas that are often failing or under-performing. The symptom of under-performing functions is the frequent fire-fighting that employees do to 'patch' up failed operations. Failing functions are risks when they repeatedly fail. This is one purpose of implementing Enterprise Risk Management - to improve business performance. Such risks are analysed and treated to be made more robust in performance. The result is fewer failures and a tremendous boost to employee morale and bottom-line results. That is the work ERM Consultant do to help top managements to gear up performance results.
