Business Continuity
Business disruption can affect any organisation, from charities and SMEs to large, complex bodies. Incidents such as system outages, cyber events, supplier failure, loss of premises, or staff unavailability can quickly interrupt critical services and production. Beyond the immediate operational impact, prolonged disruption can trigger regulatory scrutiny, loss of income, contractual breaches, and lasting reputational damage.
Durrant Riley Advisory provides bespoke business continuity and organisational resilience support, combining strategic insight, practical implementation, and independent assurance. Every engagement is tailored to your organisation, your operating model, and your risk profile.
Some organisations begin with strategy and Board level assurance; others come to us to build or refresh continuity plans, conduct business impact analysis (BIA), test their arrangements, or strengthen supplier and third-party resilience. Many use a combination over time as their services, dependencies, and risk exposure evolve.
How We Help
Strategic Service
Business Continuity Strategy & Organisational Resilience
This service gives senior leaders confidence that the organisation can continue operating when something goes wrong.
We help you understand which disruptions genuinely threaten your organisation, from system outages and supplier failure to cyber incidents, staff loss, or loss of premises, and whether your current business continuity management (BCM) arrangements are strong enough to cope.
Rather than producing shelf-filling documents, we focus on real world resilience: what must keep running, how quickly it needs to recover, and who is responsible when pressure is high. Our work aligns with recognised continuity and resilience expectations across regulators, certification bodies, and industry governance frameworks.
Why this is good for you
- You know what truly matters to keep operating
- Your Board gains credible assurance, not false comfort
- You can demonstrate compliance with stakeholder, regulator, and governance expectations
- You reduce downtime, confusion, and reputational damage during disruption
Best for: Boards and leadership teams seeking proportionate, defensible resilience, without over engineering or unnecessary cost.
Foundations: Business Impact Analysis & Continuity Planning
This service builds the core foundations of business continuity.
We work with you to identify your critical services and activities, understand how disruption would affect them, and define realistic recovery priorities. From this, we develop clear, usable business continuity plans (BCPs) that people can actually follow under pressure.
Everything is tailored to your organisation, ensuring your continuity arrangements reflect your real dependancies, constraints, and operating environment.
Why this is good for you
- You know which services must be protected first
- Recovery times are realistic, risk based and defensible
- Plans are practical and usable, not theoretical
- Staff understand their roles during disruption
Best for: Organisations without business continuity arrangements, or whose plans are outdated, untested, or overly generic.
Active Resilience: Testing, Exercising & Supplier Continuity
This service focuses on making continuity arrangements work in practice.
We help you test your plans through tabletop exercises, scenario testing, and targeted reviews, including your reliance on key suppliers and partners. This ensures weaknesses are identified and fixed before a real incident exposes them.
We also assess supplier continuity, third-party dependencies, and operational resilience across your critical services and products.
Why this is good for you
- Issues are identified safely, not during a crisis
- Senior leaders and managers gain confidence in their roles
- Supplier and third-party risks are properly understood
- You can evidence testing and continuous improvement
Best for: Organisations with critical suppliers, outsourced services, or regulatory expectations around resilience and testing.
Incident Support: Disruption Management & Recovery
This service supports you during and immediately after disruption.
We provide calm, practical support to help you manage incidents, make decisions under pressure, and recover critical services as quickly as possible. This may include leadership advisory support, coordination assistance, and post-incident reviews to capture lessons and strengthen future resilience.
The focus is on control, clarity, and recovery, not blame.
Why this is good for you
- Decision making is clearer during high-pressure situations
- Disruption is managed in a structured, proportionate way
- Recovery is faster and more organised
- Lessons are captured and improvements implemented
Best for: Organisations experiencing disruption, near-misses, or wanting independent support during incidents.