Continuity Planning Associates

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Exciting new role for CPA's Managing Director, Lyndon Bird

Formation of a new strategic alliance with Safeguard Communications

Our new product line

Exciting new role for CPA's Managing Director

Steve Mellish, FBCI, chairman of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) formally announced the appointment of Lyndon Bird, FBCI as the new Technical Services Director for the BCI this month.

Having previously chaired and served as a member of the board, Lyndon is well known and highly regarded by those on the industry.

Lyndon's new role will focus on raising the profile of Business Continuity Management, being the primary point of contact for the BCI in dealings with government, academia, the media and strategic partners as well as responsibility for implementing the international expansion portion of the BCI strategic plan.

Lyndon has previously been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award in 2004 and the Consultant of the year award in 2002 by Continuity and Insurance Risk magazine.

Strategic Alliance formed between CPA and Safeguard Communications

January 2006 has also seen the formation of a strategic alliance between CPA and Safeguard Communications.

Safeguard Communications have established a reputation as being the leading provider of Crisis and Incident Management solutions. CPA has been working closely with Safeguard to establish Crisis Commsuite as the leading incident and Crisis Management solution.

With their wealth of experience and an established presence in the field of Emergency planning, Safeguard Communications are the natural choice to establish a platform to launch world class Crisis Management solutions.

With the inclusion of RapidReach into the portfolio of Crisis Management products, the full incident lifecycle can now be managed through our suite of products.

Our extended product line-up

We have a range of solutions that are new and unique and modular by design with only one mission: to quickly guide organisations out of a crisis situation with an unblemished reputation, quickly restored service and production whilst maintaining the confidence of markets, stakeholders and staff. Our solutions are used by some of the UK’s leading companies (British Airways, Lloyds TSB, Shell, Waitrose and Prudential) to name but a few.

Our applications include RapidReach for notifying and mobilizing staff in crises via any device (such as phone, pager, SMS, mobile, email), sending the right information to the right people at that time.

Once a crisis or situation is identified your response team can be directed to Crisis Commsuite, a virtual situation ‘war room’ solution, where your team(s) can collaborate online, to work rapidly through a command and control environment to resolve the crisis, regardless of their location.

Crisis Commsuite is a real time hosted command and control solution that enables you to effectively manage a Crisis in a secure, virtual war room.

Sona Mobile can provide you access to up to date, critical information and business continuity strategies on a hand held device, ensuring that you are in a position to respond the instant you receive notification, regardless of your location.

If you require any information on the above products, or would like to arrange an online demonstration, please contact our sales team at sales@cpa-ltd.com

Case Study

' The reason we chose to engage CPA was because of their capacity to take the trouble to understand our business thoroughly and then demonstrate that convincingly in recommending approaches and strategies that fit with our culture, philosophy and method of working.'

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