Needhams 1834 Ltd is a leading independent provider of risk management and business continuity consultancy, planning and training services. We enable our clients to identify potential risks, protect against them and put into place strategies, processes and plans that will mitigate the effects of disruptive events and ensure their business continuity.

News & Events

Open Evenings

Our next open evening is on the 25th September when Professor Dominic Elliott will be guest speaker. The title of Dominic's talk is 'How useful is Benchmarking in Business Continuity Management?'. Dominic's recent research has been broadly concerned with organisational learning from crisis. He has published many articles and books in the fields of Strategic and Crisis Management and Business Continuity, most recently in the Journal of Management Studies and Management Learning. He is currently Editor of the Academic Journal - Risk Management: An International Journal.

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Case Studies

Needhams 1834 has conducted several end-to-end projects for clients taking them from the initial Business Impact Analysis to full scale Crisis Simulations in their dedicated Disaster Recovery sites. A small selection of anonymous case studies is available to offer an insight into our work in partnership with clients.

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Our services include:

Business Continuity Planning Business Continuity Training Exercising & Simulations	Contingency Planning Crisis Leadership Training Risk Management	Crisis Management Crisis Media Training BS 25999 Gap Analysis
We work in partnership with our clients, and adhere to BS25999, to develop pragmatic strategies and plans that are fit for purpose. Training is available at all levels, with a full range of BCI-approved courses from beginner to board level. In addition, team training is conducted through workshops, desktop and live exercises, and sophisticated computer-based simulations. Our clients include FTSE 100 companies, local and national government bodies, financial institutions, universities and many other organisations in the UK and abroad.

Needhams 1834 offers a full range of Business Continuity Planning services to organisations in the public and private sectors. Fully BS 25999 compliant plans are authored and the whole process, from the initial Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis, to full scale rehearsals, is conducted to the highest professional standards in partnership with the client.

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Training in the different aspects of Business Continuity increases your organisation’s knowledge, skills and understanding of the issues concerned. Our courses, ranging from the BCI approved A-Z of Business Continuity’ to ‘Crisis Command Centre Management’, offer clients the opportunity for first class training. We provide a full range of open courses at our London based training centre or can tailored courses for delivery specific to a client at their location.

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Because the golfing adage of, ‘the more I practice the luckier I get,’ is true, rehearsals are essential to achieve proficiency in the use of the plans. Rehearsals improve familiarity with, and generate staff confidence in, the Business Continuity and Crisis Response Plans. Needhams 1834 provides the full spectrum of training courses on a progressive scale. Whether its basic desktop training or complex simulations you require, Needhams 1834 can provide the most sophisticated simulations on the market today.

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