Picture: Delegates attending ARC’s Business Continuity and Crisis Management Workshop at the landmark Burj Al-Arab Hotel, Dubai.
Business Continuity Management is an holistic management process that identifies potentialimpacts that threaten an organisation and provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value creating activities.
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BCM aims to improve an organisation’s resilience. By identifying, in advance, the potentialimpacts of a wide variety of sudden disruptions to the organisation’s ability to succeed it is able to prioritise the efforts of various other specialists aiming to achieve resilience in their areas of expertise such as security, facilities and IT.
BCM must be owned and fully integrated into the organisation as an embedded management process. Source: BCI
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These and other key principles of BCM have been discussed by delegates attending Day 3 of the Business Continuity and Crisis Management Workshop in Dubai, delivered by Phil Wood MBE. The Business Continuity Institute has recently published its 2008-updated BCM Good Practice Guidelines, which can be accessed by clicking here.
