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Submitted by Continuity Forum on Thu, 2007-10-04 11:42.Advice

Business Continuity - Category Advice and Support

Please click on the links below for details on Continuity Professionals able to assist with the development and implementation of BCM programmes.


BCM Consulting Ltd

Address 18 Weston Road, Rochester, Kent, ME2 3EZ, UK

WebSite www.bcm-consulting.co.uk

Telephone +44 (0) 1634 294312

Fax No +44 (0)1634 295799

Mobile +44 (0)7976 832813

Email info@bcm-consulting.co.uk

Contact Terry Coombes, FBCI, MEPS

Area of operations Global

Sectors Financial, Professional, Legal, Commercial, Telecoms, Retail, Public Sector, Local & National Govt., Charitable

PI insurance YES

Further Information

Assignments in all aspects of the Business Continuity and Risk Management project lifecycles undertaken on an Independent & Impartial basis. Practical & pragmatic approach ensures timely & cost-effective solutions to suit all types & sizes of Client organization.Specialist areas include Business Impact Analysis and the detailed Review, Exercise, and Verification of existing plans. Contacts with Professional Bodies, the Emergency Services, and Official Regulators provide depth & breadth to the expertise applied.

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Belfor

WebSite www.belfor.com

Address: 153 Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4SD, UK
Telephone +44 (0) 1235 841 967
Fax : 01235 861079
Email : info@belfor.co.uk

Area of operations International

Sectors All

PI insurance YES

Further Information

BELFOR have been responding to single incidents and wide area events for over 30 years through our network of 16 response centres situated throughout the UK.

We have helped recover many household names including high street retailers, supermarket chains, fast food restaurants, international hotels, financial institutions as well as manufacturing conglomerates and pharmaceutical giants.

BELFOR are used by all major loss adjusters and insurers or appointed directly by clients to ensure homes and businesses can get back to normal as soon as possible.
A flood after heavy rains, a backed-up sewer or a fire, can seriously affect the ability of any organisation to function effectively. BELFOR will respond day or night, and arrive with the resources and experience to begin the recovery immediately. This ensures BI is reduced and operation and trading can commence with the minimum of delay.

With over 30 years of expertise in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, BELFOR can help you put Disaster Recovery procedures and Business Continuity plans in place so that you can get your business operational again in the shortest possible time after an incident occurs. Our practical knowledge of disasters has been developed into a range of pre-disaster services that include RED ALERT, BELFOR's international priority response service, consultancy, software and training.

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Biscon Planning Ltd

Address Ridley Cottage, High Street, Chalford, Glos, GL6 8DS, UK

WebSite www.biscon.co.uk

Telephone +44(0) 845 076 5637

Email info@biscon.co.uk

Contact Mick Bayne

Area of operations World-wide

Sectors All

PI insurance YES

Further Information

Biscon provides total business continuity strategies for all sectors.Knowledge of diverse business backgrounds enables us to understand clients’ needs and to provide bespoke solutions for all size operations.

Our portfolio contains:

  • awareness seminars
  • risk assessment and business impact analysis
  • writing business continuity plans
  • auditing and updating existing plans
  • training

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    Colt

    WebSite www.colt.net

    Telephone 0800 358 9945

    Area of operations International

    Sectors All

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    COLT is a leading European provider of business communications, offering data, voice and managed services, backed by best-in-industry customer service, to more than 50,000 midsize and major businesses and wholesale customers across Europe.
    COLT owns and operates one of Europe’s most advanced networks with unmatched breadth and city density across 13 countries: the 20,000km network includes metropolitan area networks in 32 major European cities with direct fibre connections into 10,000 buildings and 12 COLT data centres.
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    ComAcc Consultancy Ltd

    Address 4 Oriental Road, Woking, GU22 7AJ, UK

    WebSite www.comacc.com

    Telephone +44 (0) 1483 824384

    Fax No +44 (0) 1483 824384

    Mobile +44 (0)7776 233997

    Email sharad@comacc.com

    Contact Sharad Karia MBCI

    Area of operations International

    Sectors All

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    ComAcc is an independent consultancy with practical experience in implementing complete Business Continuity Management programmes which include structured Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment to formulate Business Continuity Strategies. We develop and help in rehearsals of Continuity and Crisis Management Plans for large blue chip corporations as well as smaller organisations.

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    Hansard Security Services

    Address The Baltic Exchange, 38 St Mary Axe, London, EC3A 8BH, UK

    WebSite www.hansardsecurity.com

    Telephone +44 (0)207 283 5076

    Fax No +44(0) 207 626 0733

    Mobile +44 (0)780 1796 770

    Email services@hansardsecurity.com

    Contact Tim Barker

    Area of operations UK, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia (see website)

    Sectors Security, (Consultancy, Manned Guarding)Crisis Management and Response, Event Management, Maritime Security

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Hansard Security provides security management and consultancy services for UK and multi national companies based in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Programmes are provided on an individual basis and include crisis management response training, security assessments, surveillance and counter surveillance exercises, maritime security, and business continuity advice. We have been accredited by the UK Dept of Transport to provide training to meet the IMO ISPS requirements.

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    Hazmat Response

    Address 10 Osbourne House, St Martins Lane, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3XS, UK

    WebSite www.disasteradvice.co.uk

    Telephone +44(0) 8700 789 999

    Fax No +44(0) 208 663 9072

    Mobile +44(0)7990 500 999

    Email j-charlton@btclick.com

    Contact Jeff Charlton

    Area of operations Worldwide

    Sectors ALL

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Specialist London based company with world wide experience in disaster and recovery. Winners of several Industry awards for innovation and building recovery.

    We have specific capabilities in:

    • the management of Asbestos, toxic mould & hazardous materials
    • Disaster Recovery pre & post event, planning & audit
    • Triage & fast track solutions to recovery fire/flood/chemical contamination
    • Contractor audits on work & results post disaster
    • Terrorism & resilience planning

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    ICM Computer Group

    Address ICM House, Oakwell Way, Oakwell Park, Birstall, West Yorkshire, WF17 9LU, UK

    WebSite www.icmore.co.uk/CF

    Telephone +44 (0)870 121 8300

    Fax No +44 (0)8770 121 8314

    Mobile +44(0)7990 500 999

    Email Allan.gerrish@icm-computer.co.uk

    Contact Allan Gerrish

    Area of operations United Kingdom

    Sectors ALL

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    ICM Computer Group is a leading Business Continuity provider in the UK.

    Our comprehensive range of Business Continuity Management tools and Business Recovery Solutions ensure businesses meet their continuity objectives suitable for today’s UK’s market and legislation.

    ICM’s success rate of 100% disaster recovery support, along with consistently high levels of service delivery achievement and innovative approach is recognised by all our business continuity customers.

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    InfoSec Associates

    Address Enterprise Centre, Mindrum, Northumberland, TD12 4QN, UK

    WebSite www.infosec-associates.com

    Telephone +44(0)7000 560 298

    Fax No +44(0)870 055 3603

    Email info@infosec-associates.com

    Contact Tom Fairfax

    Sectors Manufacturing, Local Government, Central Government and Public Sector Housing AssociationsSmall and Medium Sized EnterprisesBanks and Large Scale Financial Institutions, Health Sector (NHS), Defence Core and Contractors

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Independent and experienced business management consultants who specialise in Information Assurance and its core disciplines:-

    • Operational Risk Management
    • Business Continuity Management
    • Information Security Management
    • Non Exec IGO or CIO Support
    • Terrorism & resilience planning

    We achieve this by offering an innovative style based upon a sound working knowledge of industry best practice and a partnership approach with our clients
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    Inmarkets Limited

    Address 78 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6HH, UK

    WebSite www.inmarkets.com

    Telephone +44 (0) 207 929 5000

    Fax No +44 (0) 207 929 6000

    Contact Vivek Dodd

    Email vdodd@inmarkets.com

    Area of operations Global

    Sectors Compliance, Finance

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information:

    Inmarkets provides eLearning and knowledge management solutions: from off-the-shelf courses and tailor-made programs to learning management and content creation tools.

    We offer diagnostic tools to perform audits and create competency maps of the organisation, highly personalised courses that fit the need of the employees and a cost-effective delivery and tracking system to implement targeted business continuity training throughout the organisation.

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    In 24-hour, global economies, the impact of business interruptions must be kept to a minimum if profits and reputation are to stay intact.

    Marsh is a global leader in business continuity management advice. They assist clients in developing, implementing and enhancing plans that ensure they continue to operate, even when the unthinkable happens.

    Today, most organisations will have some form of business continuity plan. But many of these have been developed in response to specific threats and needs. The effectiveness of these plans can quickly diminish not only as the business environment changes, but also with the dynamics of the organisation itself and its changing business processes.

    Marsh has been helping clients to develop, implement and enhance their business continuity plans for many years. The methodology is deliberately flexible so that plans are created that the clients’ business . For more on Marsh and thier services please click here...

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    MATRIXbcp

    Address: Communications House, 26 York Street, London W1U 6PZ

    WebSite www.matrixbcp.com

    Telephone: +44 (0)845 074 0760

    Email info@matrixbcp.com

    Contact: Michael Payne

    Area of operations: World-wide

    Sectors: All

    PI insurance: YES

    Further information

    MATRIXbcp offers a full range of BCM services to all sectors but has particular expertise in continuity planning in hostile environments and in the oil and gas sector. Our portfolio includes:
    • Strategies for business continuity management (BCM)
    • Development of business continuity plans (BCP)
    • BCP exercise planning and execution
    • BCM staff training and mentoring
    • BCM benchmarking
    • BCM audits
    • Post incident support

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    Merrycon Ltd

    Address The Willows, Kentrigg, Kendal, LA9 6EE, UK

    WebSite www.merrycon.co.uk

    Telephone +44 (0)1539 730908

    Fax No +44 (0)1539 730908

    Mobile +44 (0)7876 454476

    Email melgosling@merrycon.co.uk

    Contact Mel Gosling

    Area of operations UK, Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand,China, Hong Kong, Singapore, India

    Sectors Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Retailing,Distribution, Construction, Charities, Membership,Printing, Local Government, Information Technology

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Developing and delivering appropriate and effective Business Continuity Plans quickly, cheaply, and efficiently, using structured consulting and software. Managing Business Continuity projects to meet requirements, budgets, and timescales. Testing of Plans to review completeness and practicality, ensure familiarity, provide training, and audit their currency.

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    Redan International Ltd

    Address 31, Wolverton Close, Ipsley, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 0AR, UK

    WebSite www.redan-international.com

    Telephone +44 (0) 870 902 8810

    Fax No +44 (0) 870 802 8811

    Mobile +44 (0)7771 686656

    Email mikem@redan-international.com

    Contact Mike Mikkelsen FBCI MCMA

    Area of operations UK, Europe, PacRim, Middle East, Global

    Sectors Telecommunications; Retail; Insurance; Health; Logistics; Education

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Consultancy:

    Creation and introduction of Corporate Operational Risk reduction strategies and programmes. Creation and introduction of Corporate BCM strategies and programmes. Corporate Operational Risk and Impact Analysis. Director briefings on BCM. Understanding of global BCM processes and procedures. Operational Risk and BCM KPI identification and measurement

    Training:

    Communications and BCM. Global BCM processes and procedures. Ensuring BCM works for and with you – Company Bespoke

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    Renaissance Contingency Services Ltd

    Address The Mews,15 Adelaide Street,Dun Laoghaire,Co Dublin, Ireland

    WebSite www.renaissance.ie

    Telephone + 353 1 2809410

    Fax No +353 1 2808302

    Mobile + 353 87 2570612

    Email mconway@renaissance.ie

    Contact Michael Conway

    Area of operations Ireland, UK and Mainland Europe

    Sectors Business Continuity Consultancy provider in multiple business sectors

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    We are the leading Business Continuity Planning consultancy service based in Ireland and have carried out assignments for most of the leading organisations within Ireland covering the following sectors: Financial Services, State, Semi- State, Manufacturing and distribution.

    Our reference list is a who’s who of Irish business and we have carried out substantial assignments for multi national organisations based within and outside of Ireland.

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    Security Risk Management Ltd

    Address Fabriam Centre, Atmel Way, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE28 9NZ, UK

    WebSite www.srm-solutions.com

    Telephone +00 44 (0) 191 2804744

    Fax No +00 44 (0)191 2806015

    Mobile + 44 (0) 777 171 4061

    Email Brian.Fenwick@srm-solutions.com

    Contact Brian Fenwick

    Area of operations All Countries

    Sectors Public & Private Sectors

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    SRM Ltd. provides a holistic approach to Security and Risk Management with particular emphasis on Information Security BS7799 implementation and audit (Including CLAS consultancy) and Business Continuity (PAS 56) implementation and audit.

    SRM Ltd. is a provider of a BCI Approved Business Continuity Overview training course enabling Project Team from within an organisation to initiate and develop Business Continuity Management process through to maturity.

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    Steelhenge Consulting

    Address
    34 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1 0DH
    Unit 2, Lower Woodford, Salsibury, SP4 6NQ

    WebSite www.steelhenge.co.uk

    Telephone +44 (0)1722 782228

    Email enquiries@steelhenge.co.uk

    Contact Dominic Cockram/Tony Cowdrey

    Area of operations International

    Sectors Resilience and Crisis Management consulting and training in UK and Internationally

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Resilience strategic development
    Threat and risk vulnerability analysis and development
    Reviewing and auditing crisis and incident plans
    Training programme development and delivery
    Exercise development, implementation and management at all levels from desktop to major simulation
    Crisis communications management and training
    Crisis Leadership development.
    Call Centre and responder training

    MORE INFORMATION

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    Surefire Communications

    Address 10 Wavell Drive, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 8PG, UK

    WebSite www.surecomm.com

    Telephone +44 (0)161 796 3941

    Fax No +44 (0)870 056 2402

    Mobile +44 (0)7973 341194

    Email enquiries@surecomm.com

    Contact Chris Tulloch

    Area of operations Europe, Middle East, Far East, North America

    Sectors All, but specialise in Telecommunications, Call Centre and E-Commerce Continuity

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Surefire Communications is a recognised provider of consultancy and training services. We cover the full range of Business Continuity services, specialising in high availability, high-tech environments. Our training courses were among the first to be accredited by the BCI.

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    Syan

    Address Hortonwood 37, Telford, Shropshire, UK

    WebSite www.syan.co.uk

    Telephone +44 (0) 1952-607000

    Fax No +44 (0) 1952-677278

    Email Barry.wright@syan.co.uk

    Contact Barry Wright

    Area of operations UK

    Sectors All companies / public sector organizations employing more than 100 staff and operating with a 50-mile radius of Telford, Shropshire

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Syan has been providing IT services for over 20 years and specializes in the provision of a complimentary range of IT products and services to provide mid-sized organizations with a complete ‘managed’ service.

    From a Business Recovery perspective, this includes the provision of IT and workplace recovery services most suited (although not exclusively) for companies in the Telford and surrounding areas.

    Syan’s IT DR Services include the provision of servers on a cold restart basis via the provision of relocatable / mobile equipment; warm / hot restart via the provision of a hosted environment from two locally based data centers plus high availability solutions too.

    Syan’s workplace facilities include a 100 seat facility c/w computer/ network rooms at its newly built Business Recovery & Data Centre in Newport, Shropshire plus a further 50 seat capability at its data centre in Telford. The two sites are 10 miles apart and inked by dark fibre for added resilience.

    Services can be purchased on ether a dedicated or shared basis. Syan’s risk ratio’s for shared services are 10:1 for IT equipment items and 15:1 for workplace seats.

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    VERITAS

    Address 350 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, RG2 6UH, UK

    WebSite www.veritas.com

    Telephone +44 (0)7843 514977

    Fax No +44 (0)1189 436233

    Mobile +44 (0)7843 514977

    Email Christopher.frampton@veritas.com

    Contact Christopher Frampton

    Area of operations Global

    Sectors All

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Cost effective Business Continuity, Crisis and Disaster Recovery strategies, implementation, exercise, and assessment services. Delivered by world-renowned externally accredited consultants. Our services designed around the Utility Computing model, mitigate risk and protect client organizations against the threat of disruptions, whilst supporting the compliance and regulatory needs of the business.

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    Visor Consultants

    Address 212 Piccadilly, London, W1J9HG, UK

    WebSite www.visorconsultants.com

    Telephone +44 (0) 20 7917 6026

    Fax No +44 (0)20 7439 0262

    Mobile +44 (0)7774 824487

    Email info@visorconsultants.com

    Contact Peter Power

    Area of operations Global

    Sectors All

    PI insurance YES

    Further Information

    Crisis Management, BC, Operational Risk Management, Exercising, Testing, Workshops, Public Speaking, Media Training, Stress & Trauma awareness, Rehearsing, Motivating, Leading, Terrorism, Conflict Management, Chairing, Facilitating, After Dinner speaking, Writing features & articles, Emergency Planning, Setting New Standards, Expert Witness, Appearing on TV / Radio, Security, Resilience, Strategic Motivation, Auditing, Inspiring.


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