Business Continuity Management
Executive Leadership and Management of Organisations
Course Overview
Course Objectives
- Explain the approach for establishing an operational Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) aligned to the UAE NCEMA 7000-2015, Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2013 and ISO 22301-2012 Societal Security; Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) requirements
- Identify components and best practices of a successful BCM Program, specifically its policy, strategy and supporting tools
- Understand the components for an effective Business Impact Analysis (BIA) that is able to meet strategic, tactical and operational requirements of an organization
- Develop a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and delivery of a Business Continuity (BC) exercise
- Develop requirements for an auditable Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to comply with UAE NCEMA 7000-2015
Course Outline
- Resilience
- How does Business Continuity provide value to an organization?
- Definition and ingredients of organizational resilience
- UAE NCEMA 7000-2012
- Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2013
- ISO 22301-2012 Societal Security; Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) requirements
- BCM Program, Policy, Strategy and Tools
- Implementing a BCM program, and its leadership
- The BC Policy requirements
- The BC strategy – how and depth?
- Contingency and standby
- Understanding stakeholders
- Legislations, regulations and standards
- Embedding Business Continuity
- Training needs analysis, skills and competency framework
- Why do we need a Competency Framework?
- Developing a Competency Framework
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Types of BIA
- strategic
- tactical
- operational
- Implementation methods for BIA and Risk Assessment (RA)
- Types of BIA
- Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
- Ownership and plan structure
- Roles and responsibilities of BC Champion and Team Leaders
- Delivering a Business Continuity Exercise
- Types of testing/exercising
- Key components for delivery of an auditable exercise
- Maintenance of the BCMS
- What is the function of an audit?
- BCM Steering Committee and Terms of Reference (ToR’s)
- Overriding management review and continuous improvement

Study Online
$250.00
1 Week Face to Face Classes
$2500.00
2 Week Face to Face Classes
$3200.00
Course Features
- 2302 Views
- 8 Weeks Online
- 1-2 Weeks Classes
- Certified