Industry-wide collaboration is often necessary - but always difficult, calling for close cooperation with businesses that are often competitors. BSI understands the resulting risk to intellectual property and competitive positions, and is skilled at facilitating the cooperation of groups whose natural response is conflict, not conversation. The result: a coherent industry-wide response, meaningful change, safely and cost-effectively delivered.
Case study - IT service continuity
In the absence of a formal standard, firms in the IT service continuity industry have had to make their own judgements as to how organizations should protect their IT networks from disruption.
Bringing together a consortium of firms from across the industry to collaborate on defining best practice, BSI Professional Services was able to fast-track the development of a specification. “We could have drawn up a specification ourselves - but it would have been just another opinion to add to the body of literature on the subject: it was important to have BSI’s imprimatur, and be able to draw on best practice from a wide variety of organizations,” says Oscar O’Connor, an adviser with Adam Continuity.
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