Services

Whiting Risk Consulting (WRC) specializes in providing Business Continuity, Crisis Management, and Disaster Recovery services that encompass all aspects of the Response and Recovery Lifecycle.

The Response and Recovery Lifecycle is a best practices methodology to develop and maintain a Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Crisis Management program.

WRC Response and Recovery planning services include:

  • Risk Assessment
    • We assess threats and risks to your business through site surveys, building reviews, and natural hazard analyses.
  • Business Impact Analysis
    • We identify critical business processes and associated recovery time objectives, determine financial and operational impacts for downtime, prioritize systems and applications, determine interdependencies, and quantify resource requirements.
  • Program governance and policy development
    • We develop a practical, sustainable program that meets best practices and ensures the program can be maintained on an on-going basis.
    • We assist you in developing a program Steering Committee by identifying and training staff and creating program protocols and guidelines.
  • Workspace Recovery Strategies
    • We identify the best options for recovery of office workspace, distribution centers, and/or manufacturing plants by evaluating internal and external capabilities, providing cost estimates, and evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of available options.
  • Information Technology Recovery Strategies
    • We identify the best options for recovery of data center systems by evaluating internal and external capabilities, providing cost estimates, and evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of available options.
  • Business Continuity / Contingency Plan Development
    • We develop plans that provide the guidelines, tasks, and checklists that will prepare you to respond to an incident or disaster affecting your critical business processes or operations.
  • IT Disaster Recovery Plan development
    • We develop application-specific IT Disaster Recovery plans to enable offsite recovery of critical applications.
  • Crisis Management Team development
    • A Crisis Management program is critical to ensure leadership, decision-making, communications, and coordination during the response to incident.
    • We will identify and train team members, develop plans and materials for the team, and provide support at time of disaster, if needed.
    • We create, conduct, and audit Crisis Management Team exercises.
  • Pandemic Planning
    • We create the policies and guidelines necessary to prepare for and respond to a pandemic incident.
    • We also design and develop plans that provide location-specific preparation and response.
    • We create, conduct and audit Pandemic-related exercises.
  • Exercises
    • We have the capability to create, conduct, and audit all types of exercises including walkthrough, tabletop, and functional tests.
  • Maintenance / Training
    • We develop guidelines for regular maintenance and employee training.
    • We can develop a plan repository for storage of your plan documents using SharePoint or other collaboration software.
  • Employee Awareness
    • We can help you design a program to ensure that all employees know how to respond to an incident, including preparedness at work and at home.
    • We can develop programs for new hire training and initiation to BCP.
  • Outsourced Program Management
    • Our outsourced Business Continuity service allows you the flexibility of determining how and when resources are allocated to assist with your program.
    • We can act as your outsourced Business Continuity Team in place of or in addition to your internal BCP team.