ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management System Consulting
Prepare Your Organization to Continue and Recover When Disruption Occurs
Knowledge Kraft helps organizations establish, implement and improve practical business continuity management systems aligned with ISO 22301 and their actual operational risks.
Our consulting approach goes beyond preparing a business continuity document. We help organizations identify critical activities, understand disruption impacts, define recovery priorities and develop workable continuity arrangements for people, facilities, technology, suppliers and information.
Complete implementation, business impact analysis, continuity-plan development, exercises and certification-readiness support are available through onsite, remote and hybrid engagements.
ISO 22301 Consulting at a Glance
Service objective: To develop a practical business continuity management system that helps the organization prepare for disruption, continue prioritized activities and recover within defined timeframes.
Suitable For
- Organizations seeking first-time ISO 22301 certification
- Businesses responding to customer or tender requirements
- Companies dependent on technology or critical suppliers
- Organizations providing time-sensitive or essential services
- Businesses with untested or outdated continuity plans
- Multi-location organizations requiring coordinated recovery arrangements
- Certified organizations seeking to improve their BCMS
- Organizations integrating continuity with information security or IT service management
Knowledge Kraft Can Support
- Complete BCMS implementation
- ISO 22301 gap assessment
- Business impact analysis
- Continuity risk assessment
- Business continuity strategy
- Business continuity plan development
- Crisis and continuity communication
- Exercise and simulation support
- Internal auditor training
- Internal audits
- Management review preparation
- Certification-readiness assessment
- Post-certification improvement
What Is ISO 22301?
ISO 22301 is the international standard for business continuity management systems. It provides a framework for organizations to prepare for, respond to and recover from disruptive incidents while continuing prioritized products and services at an acceptable level.
An effective BCMS connects:
- Leadership and continuity governance
- Critical products and services
- Business impact analysis
- Disruption-risk assessment
- Recovery priorities
- Continuity strategies
- Incident-response responsibilities
- Business continuity plans
- Crisis communication
- Technology and data recovery
- Supplier continuity
- Exercises and testing
- Performance evaluation
- Continual improvement
The objective is not to predict every possible emergency. It is to build a structured capability for making decisions and maintaining essential operations when normal arrangements are disrupted.
Challenges We Help Customers Address
Organizations often approach Knowledge Kraft when they are facing challenges such as:
- Critical activities have not been clearly identified
- Every department considers all its activities equally urgent
- Recovery time expectations are not defined
- Continuity planning focuses only on IT or data backup
- Business and technology recovery priorities do not match
- Plans contain generic instructions rather than practical actions
- Roles and activation authority are unclear
- Alternate facilities or remote-working arrangements are untested
- Critical supplier dependencies are not understood
- Contact information and escalation routes are outdated
- Continuity exercises are not regularly conducted
- Exercise findings are not formally closed
- Plans are not updated after operational or technology changes
- The organization is unsure whether it is ready for certification
What Knowledge Kraft Delivers
A BCMS Designed Around Your Critical Operations
Knowledge Kraft works with leadership, operations, information technology, facilities, human resources, procurement, security and other relevant teams to translate ISO 22301 requirements into practical continuity arrangements. Our role may include:
- Assessing current continuity practices
- Defining the BCMS scope
- Facilitating business impact analysis
- Identifying disruption risks and vulnerabilities
- Defining recovery priorities
- Developing continuity strategies
- Establishing incident-response responsibilities
- Developing business continuity plans
- Aligning business and technology recovery
- Strengthening supplier-continuity controls
- Developing exercise scenarios
- Training response teams and internal auditors
- Conducting internal audits
- Preparing the organization for certification
The final BCMS is developed around the organization’s actual services, dependencies, resources and customer commitments.
Frequently Asked Questions
ISO 22301:2019 with Amendment 1:2024 remains the current published basis. A revised edition is under development but has not yet been published.
A BCMS is the framework used to identify critical operations, establish recovery requirements, develop continuity arrangements and continually improve organizational preparedness.
A business impact analysis evaluates how disruption affects the organization over time and helps determine critical activities, dependencies and recovery priorities.
A BIA evaluates the consequences and timing of disruption. A risk assessment evaluates possible disruption scenarios, vulnerabilities and existing controls.
No. Disaster recovery usually focuses on restoring technology, systems and data. Business continuity also addresses people, facilities, suppliers, communication and operational processes.
No. Emergency response focuses mainly on immediate safety and incident control. Business continuity focuses on maintaining and recovering prioritized operations.
No. Knowledge Kraft provides consulting, implementation, training, internal audit and readiness support. Certification is conducted independently by a certification body.
No. It cannot prevent every incident. It helps the organization improve preparedness, response, continuity and recovery.
The duration depends on the number of locations, critical services, operational complexity, existing plans and availability of process owners.
The exercise frequency should reflect the criticality of activities, organizational changes, customer requirements and previous exercise results.
Yes. Knowledge Kraft can facilitate the BIA with process owners and leadership. The organization must confirm and approve its recovery priorities.
Yes. The systems can share governance, risk management, incident response, supplier controls, internal audits and management reviews.
Yes. Knowledge Kraft can conduct an independent BCMS internal audit or train and support the organization’s internal auditors.