Readysmith Advisers Limited and Marsh Canada Limited Provide Business Continuity Planning Platform

Nov. 1, 2010 - PRLog -- Designed for small and medium-sized organizations, ReadyMarsh enables broad and affordable business continuity planning. It does this by combining the advisory services of Marsh, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor, with Readysmith’s 24/7, web-hosted and wiki technology-based business continuity planning environment. Through ReadyMarsh, Marsh will assist clients in performing specialized risk assessments and developing procedures for emergency response, crisis management, business continuity, and information technology disaster recovery.

“For small and medium-sized businesses, ReadyMarsh offers affordable and wide-ranging planning consulting services that address emergency response, crisis management, and recovery of business operations,” said Michael Smith, President of Readysmith Advisers Limited. “We are excited to collaborate with Marsh and to bring our software-as-a-service business continuity solution to a broader client base.”

“Only a small percentage of businesses have developed effective plans to deal with business continuity and their options for planning are often limited to inadequate templates or expensive software or consulting services,” said Gayle Mitcham, Vice President and National Business Continuity Management Practice Leader for Marsh Canada. “Through ReadyMarsh, we are able to offer small and medium-sized organizations the tools they need to develop a cost-effective business continuity program that suits their individual needs, along with guidance from Marsh’s business continuity practitioners.”

About Marsh
Marsh has over 24,000 employees and provides advice and transactional capabilities to clients in over 100 countries. Marsh Canada Limited has 1,100 employees and offices in 13 cities across Canada. Marsh is a unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), a global professional services firm with over 50,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue of $10 billion. MMC also is the parent company of Guy Carpenter, the risk and reinsurance specialist; Mercer, the provider of HR and related financial advice and services; and Oliver Wyman, the management consultancy. Its stock (ticker symbol: MMC) is listed on the New York, Chicago, and London stock exchanges. MMC’s Web site address is www.mmc.com. Marsh’s Web sites are www.marsh.ca and www.marsh.com.

Marsh Risk Consulting (MRC), with more than 800 risk and dispute consulting experts worldwide, provides innovative and customized solutions focused on organizations’ business success. MRC’s Website is www.marshriskconsulting.com.

About Readysmith Advisers Limited
Established in 2008, Readysmith Advisers Limited provides a comprehensive business continuity planning solution for established channel partners to their small and medium sized customers. The Readysmith Advisers Limited service combines the expertise of veteran business continuity advisers with a secure, reliable, wiki technology based web site to assist in development of a business continuity plan to meet all the readiness needs of an organization. The comprehensive service addresses emergency response, crisis management, continuing business operations, and information technology recovery.

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We guide small/medium sized businesses through unknown territory - fire, flood, tornado, hurricane, power failure, bomb threat, supplier failure, pandemic... any bad thing that interrupts the business. We help plan for emergencies, crises and disasters.