Business Continuity Management (BCM) Webinars

With 20 years’ consulting experience specialising in leadership and management development, Sarah Cook, the author of Making a Success of Managing and Working Remotely, outlines the benefits and pitfalls of remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. 

Download this webinar to learn about:

• Tips and techniques for making remote working a success;
• Practical advice for managers; and
• Building personal and team resilience when working in isolation.

Although business continuity and disaster recovery planning are essential governance responsibilities, not many organisations have a formal BCM programme in place.

This webinar will cover:

• What BCM is;
• Why organisations choose to deploy a formalised BCM programme (and why others don’t);
• The difference between business continuity planning and a BCMS;
• An introduction to ISO 22301, the international standard for BCM;
• Considerations for implementing a BCMS; and
• How to get approval for your implementation project.

The business impact analysis (BIA) is a core element of a successful BCM programme. A BIA assesses and analyses the impact of incidents to enable the effective resumption of activities through appropriate resource allocation within specific timescales.

This webinar will cover important considerations for a risk assessment and BIA:

• Setting risk assessment criteria;
• Conducting the risk assessment;
• Risk analysis and evaluation;
• Establishing BIA resource and activity dependencies;
• Setting BIA criteria;
• Determining the maximum tolerable period of disruption;
• What can be expected of BIA outputsl and
• Common challenges and how to overcome them.

The essence of effective BCM involves having a well-rehearsed response capability based upon concise, relevant and up-to-date plans, as well as the resources to support those plans.

This webinar will explain how to establish a testing, response and recovery procedure based on BCM best practice:

• Developing a response plan;
• Establishing resources – people and competencies;
• Prioritisation and timelines;
• Crisis communications and the crisis management team; and
• Exercise methodology.