Elevate Your Preparedness: The Assessment Advantage

Navigating today’s business arena requires more than strategy; resilience is a fundamental cornerstone. With each passing day, your organization encounters a spectrum of challenges and opportunities, from market fluctuations to technological breakthroughs, each presenting its distinct array of obstacles to overcome. However, the true measure of success lies not just in weathering the storm but in emerging stronger, more adaptable, and better equipped to face the uncertainties that lie ahead. So, how can you ensure your business survives and thrives in this ever-evolving landscape?

Asfalis Advisors introduces a powerful resource in your journey towards resilience: the S.A.V.E (Strengthen, Advise, Validate, and Educate) Assessment™ tool. This resource is your key to understanding your organization’s resilience level and the maturity of your emergency management, business continuity, crisis management, or organizational programs. It provides a comprehensive view of your resilience, examining your existing programs, processes, policies, and plans. By utilizing the S.A.V.E Assessment™ tool, you’ll gain valuable insights that can be turned into effective strategies and recommendations, enhancing your organization’s ability to navigate through challenges and opportunities.

Identifying Gaps, Driving Growth

The S.A.V.E Assessment™ tool follows a detailed process that allows you to pinpoint gaps in your emergency management, business continuity, crisis management, or resilience programs. By evaluating critical areas such as program administration, planning, implementation, execution, training, validation, and sustainability, you will gain invaluable insights into your business’s tenacity.

The Benefits of the S.A.V.E. Assessment™

The S.A.V.E. Assessment™ is invaluable for organizations with critical infrastructure. Here's how:

Commercial Facilities

Benchmark against industry standards, secure resources for enhancement, and enhance resilience and competitiveness.

Energy Sector

Evaluate and enhance resilience programs, ensuring uninterrupted energy supply and securing support for improvements.

Government Agencies

Compare resilience programs with industry benchmarks, secure funding for essential services, and prioritize resource allocation for maximum impact.

Healthcare and Public Health

Align programs with industry standards, secure development resources, and enhance patient care and safety.

Transportation Systems

Evaluate resilience programs, ensure network reliability, and enhance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Emergency Services

Evaluate resilience programs, strengthen physical and cyber resources, and enhance the capacity for prevention, protection, response, and recovery efforts across all levels of government and private-sector partners.

Overall, the S.A.V.E. Assessment™ delivers tangible benefits and value by enabling effective assessment, validation, and benchmarking of resilience programs, ensuring long-term success in today's dynamic environment.

A Holistic Evaluation

The distinguishing feature of the S.A.V.E Assessment™ tool lies in its holistic methodology. It fully evaluates your organization’s capacities and capabilities, drawing on industry standards and best practices. From scrutinizing program administration to gauging sustainability, every facet is examined to understand your organization’s tenacity comprehensively.

Six key categories are used in the assessment:

Program Management
Planning
Implementation
Training and Education
Exercises and Tests
Program Sustainment

After analyzing these categories, we provide an overall score to assist in evaluating the current state of your organization’s existing programs.

The Insightful Report

Once the assessment is complete, we will provide your organization with a detailed and insightful report as a roadmap for enhancing resilience. Here's what you can expect from the report:

Executive Summary: A concise overview highlighting key findings, recommendations, and actionable insights.
Strengths: Identification of areas where your organization excels in terms of resilience and preparedness.
Risks, Barriers, and Recommendations: A thorough analysis of potential risks and barriers, accompanied by a 2- 5 year actionable roadmap and recommendations to address risks effectively.
Key Themes: Identification of recurring themes or patterns observed during the assessment process, providing valuable insights for strategic decision-making.
Program Maturity: Assessment of the maturity level of your organization’s emergency management, business continuity, crisis management, or resilience programs.
Graphical Scorecard: A visual representation displaying the strengths and weaknesses of your organization’s resilience capabilities, allowing for easy identification of areas for improvement.
Key Executive Insights Briefing: This presentation offers actionable steps for enhancing resilience, ensuring informed decision-making, and aligning organizational priorities with long-term objectives.

This comprehensive report is a valuable tool for your organization, providing actionable insights and recommendations to enhance resilience and mitigate risks effectively. It helps you validate and communicate your gaps in ways that support your organization to receive additional resources (such as funds and talent) in a way that gets approved by leadership.

Actionable Insights, Tangible Results

Completing the assessment generates objective data that can be translated into actionable strategies and recommendations. Whether it’s making a business case for necessary resources, identifying opportunities for improvement, or aligning with industry standards, the S.A.V.E Assessment™ tool equips your business with the insights needed to enhance business stamina.

Driving Continuous Improvement

The journey doesn’t end with assessment. Asfalis Advisors’ continuous improvement cycle ensures that you are ready to address immediate challenges and prepare for future uncertainties. By integrating multi-data collection processes and providing a sustainable framework, the tool fosters a culture of perseverance that evolves alongside the business.

Why Choose Asfalis Advisors?

Our clients choose us because of our commitment to excellence and results-driven approach. With a deep knowledge of industry practices and a track record of success, we provide more than just an assessment tool—we deliver tangible value. From responsive engagement to tailored recommendations, we partner with clients every step of the way to ensure their success.

Testimonials Speak Volumes

"Our company was interested in an assessment because the organization was at a point where we were experiencing rapid growth in a pandemic coupled with 'the great resignation' and needed to update and assess many of our practices, policies, and procedures. Asfalis has provided validation, expertise, trusted counsel, and sound recommendations thus far through the engagement."

Vernetta Purcell

Chief Operating Officer

Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board

"Good insights on recommendations to measure program success and assessment on focus areas. The deliverables received will aid our growing program."

Executive Director of Emergency Management

Higher Education Institution

The S.A.V.E Assessment™ includes:

4 industry standards

NFPA 1600 "Standard on Continuity, Emergency, and Crisis Management"
ISO 22320: 2018 "Security and Resilience - Emergency Management"
ISO 22313: 2020 "Security and Resilience - Business Continuity Management"
ISO 22361: 2022 "Security and Resilience - Crisis Management"

Assessment tool has 200+ questions

As a result of the assessment outcomes, clients have collectively:

Don’t wait for the next disruption to strike.
Let’s S.A.V.E your organization from uncertainty and pave the way for a resilient future together.

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Together, let’s build a stronger, more resilient future.