Introduction to Business Continuity Management (BCM)

“Prepare Today to Protect Tomorrow”

Business continuity is about having a plan to deal with difficult situations, so your organisation can continue to function with as little disruption as possible. Whether it’s a business, public sector organisation, or charity, you need to know how you can keep going under any circumstances. In short, it prepares you for when (not if) the stuff hits the fan, so you can ensure your fan keeps working !!

Having a process in place to manage the aftermath of any disruptive incident is essential to ongoing business activity. Understanding your key priorities, processes and procedures; any gaps you may have across those activities; training your team so they know exactly what to do, who does what, when, where, why and how; and testing your plans to ensure they work as intended.

In this workshop, you will learn important principles of BCM, the terminology of BCM, a high level understanding of the steps required and how to go about a Business Impact Assessment.

This workshop is brought to you in collaboration with Sheena Downey, from Digital Diligence, a recognised expert in the field, and author of the book “Ensuring Business Resilience: A Beginner’s Guide”.

A valuable BCM book, written by your trainer, to help you further understand the processes and practices and a great resource for your organisation.

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

 Understand the importance of BCM
 Understand the terminology associated with BCM
 Know how to get started or advance what you already have
 Identify the steps of a BCM implementation project
 Explain project management principles
 Help your organisation be better protected and be more resilient

Professionals from all levels of the organisation, including: operational leaders, risk management teams, portfolio management teams, program managers, project managers, and business analysts. In short, anybody who has an interest in BCM or who is likely to be either developing your BCM, managing your BCM, part of your BCM management and decision-making team, or a member of any of your response or recovery teams.

Sheena describes herself as a “Pessimistic Optimistic or an Optimistic Pessimist” – it changes around on a regular basis !! Sheena has a love for all things Resilient and is Australia’s first RIOT Consultant specialising in Resilience, Innovation, Optimisation, and Transformation.

Sheena has just completed her first book “Ensuring Business Resilience: A Beginner’s Guide” and is very much looking forward to sharing her knowledge, experience, skills and sense of humour.

Introduction to Business Continuity Management (BCM)

 The importance of BCM at project, program, corporate levels
 Understanding of BCM through the Manchester case study
 Looking a little closer to home and BCM practices in Australia
 It doesn't have to be you !
 It doesn't have to be bad news !
 What’s a BIA ?
 Tips for getting started
 Questions and answers
 Next steps