Plan Maintenance

All Hands Consulting - Plan Maintenance Plan Maintenance services help you maintain and update your plan as a living document. All Hands members are experienced in maintaining plans with or without software. We have consultants experienced in using planning software such as LDRPS, Precovery, ePlanner, ComPAS, ComPLETE Revolution, REXSYS, and DRS

Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government

All Hands Consulting - Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government All Hands Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government services are based on the belief that COOP and COG plans should be developed as part of a Comprehensive Emergency Management Program using a planning process based on federal guidance, industry standards, and best practices in emergency management and continuity planning.

COOP and COG plans should detail all of the procedures that define how a government and the community will continue or recover its minimum essential functions in the event of a disaster.

Essential functions are generally understood to mean those functions that must be performed to achieve the jurisdiction’s critical missions. Each jurisdiction must inventory and prioritize all of its functions and determine which ones are truly essential. Specific plans must then be developed and resourced to ensure continuity of each function. Managers will use these plans to ensure that there is minimum disruption to their service delivery in the event of a disaster or other major interruption to services.

Contingency Planning

All Hands Consulting - Contingency Planning Contingency planning should be an integral part of your overall business continuity management process. Business Continuity and emergency planning requires a thorough review of your organization's entire operation for safety and operational vulnerabilities. Following a business impact assessment (BIA) methodology, you should review essential operations as well as key suppliers, business, and data partners as well as infrastructure components that are deemed vital. Planning must include detailed contingency plans that will guide your organization in performing its critical functions during a disruption or disaster.

All Hands can assist you with this process by identifying all critical processes and by evaluating threats at every location, identifying all the key components, their interdependencies, and their relative importance.

Business Impact Analysis

All Hands Consulting - Business Impact Analysis The BIA is typically conducted as part of our comprehensive business continuity service. A joint client and All Hands team will identify, review, evaluate and prioritize issues that pose potential crises and/or negative impact for the client's business operations.

The joint team will also analyze the client's current overall business continuity management planning efforts. The BIA is a diagnostic survey that consists of issue analyses, risk identification, and assessment of potential business impacts and crisis situations. The diagnostic survey assists us to determine the client current capabilities, level of training, and categorization of potential business disruption situations.

Business Continuity Planning & Plan Development

All Hands Consulting - Business Continuity Planning Our typical approach to Business Continuity Planning and BCM Plan Development is to work closely with the client organization's staff to develop a comprehensive plan based on a five-phase project plan as follows:

1. Business Impact Assessment (BIA)
2. Business Continuity Plan (BCP) development
3. Staff Training
4. Business Continuity Plan Validation: Drills and Exercises
5. Program Effectiveness Evaluation & Monitoring