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Business Continuity Management
Course Category: Business Management Courses
Duration: 2 days
Price: 945 + VAT
Type: Public, In-House
Starting Dates:
03/02/09 For Two Days - Available - Book now »
23/04/09 For Two Days - Available - Book now »
03/06/09 For Two Days - Available - Book now »
24/09/09 For Two Days - Available - Book now »
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Course Overview
During this course you will be able to identify weaknesses or threats that could prevent your organisation of functioning normally, and be able to respond to them by developing a reliable business continuity plan.
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Gain an understanding of business continuity strategies
- Develop and implement continuity plans to make your business resilient
- Assess and rank business critical events and their impact on your organisation
- Identify and select a recovery site for your business critical operations
- Appoint a business recovery team to quickly react to any incidents
- Test and QA your recovery plan to ensure readiness
- Make modifications to your existing plan
- Understand how to mitigate adverse events impacts
- Evaluate the impact of NOT being able to perform business critical functions
- Identify the budgetary requirements of BCM
- Establish when you need to escalate the incident and the best way to do it
- Test and QA your recovery plan to ensure readiness
The course will help you gain practical skills that you will be able to take back into your working environment. You will work through a series of interactive exercises and case studies to help you design and develop business continuity plans.
Course Synopsis
Introduction to Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• What is BCM?
• Identifying threats to the business
• Defining incidents
• Why should businesses adopt BCM?
• Why don’t businesses adopt BCM?
• How should businesses approach BCM?
• Getting management buy in
Understanding your business
• Understanding business critical functions and priorities
• Understanding minimum resources required to operate critical functions
• Quantifying timescales when interruptions become unacceptable
• Identifying where business continuity strategies are required
• Identifying risks and how to mitigate against them
BCM strategies
• Analysing strategy options:
- Corporate strategies
- Business unit strategies
- Resource recovery strategies
• Understanding the costs of BCM
• Defining acceptable recovery timescales
• Recognising the most appropriate strategy for your business
Developing a BCM response
• Developing business unit recovery plans
• Developing a business continuity plan
Developing a BCM culture
• Assessing the level of BCM awareness
• Developing a BCM culture
• Monitoring cultural change
Invoking your business continuity plan
• Investigating an incident
• Analysing the impact on business activities
• Deciding next steps
• How to invoke your business continuity plan
Crisis management
• What is crisis management?
• Assessing the role of the crisis management team
• How to build a crisis management team
• Effective communications
Resuming normal business operations
• Achieving stability
• Examining the impact of interruptions
• Planning normal business resumption
• Communicating restoration plans
• Restoring normal operations
• Lessons learned
Testing your plans
• Testing individual components of your plan
• Developing test scenarios
• Analysing and understanding test results
• Updating your plan
Managing a BCM programme
• Defining programme goals
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