Overview
Business Continuity and the contents of this program involves building and improving resilience within your business or company; it’s about identifying your key products and services and the most urgent activities that underpin them.
Devising plans and strategies that will enable you to continue your business operations and enable you to recover quickly and effectively from any type disruption whatever its size or cause.
It gives you a solid framework to lean on in times of crisis and provides stability and security.
This program is designed to embed Business Continuity into your business or company infrastructure and yield the business benefits.
Objectives
- Understand the principles of business continuity
- Understand the elements of an effective business continuity programme
- Have gained practical experience of the business continuity planning process
- Have gained practical experience of crisis management and business recovery issues
- Be able to apply the principles to their own business continuity planning efforts
- Have begun the process of developing their own business continuity strategies and plans
How this helps your organisation?
- Delegate will be able to provide knowledge and insight into the implementation of the fundamental principles of business continuity
- Conduct a review of the current status of business continuity within the firm
- Yield improved results by implementing an effective outsourcing strategy
- Delegates will provide the organisation with the skills and instruments to improve continuity in both long term and short term
- Improve the skills and morale of organisations employees through increased knowledge, confidence and capability
How this helps you personally?
- Understand how to apply the most optimum practices
- Learn from the experience of other delegates and the trainer
- Attain a strong knowledge of the principles of facilities management
- Add value to your knowledge and competency
- Improve your prospective career opportunities through self-development
Course Structure
Introduction
- What is Business Continuity?
- Why plan for business continuity?
- Business continuity vs. disaster recovery
- Case Study & Videos
Risk Events / Incidents
- Rare or unusual events
- Common events
- Weather, theft and vandalism
- Current issues affecting us all
- Benefits / rewards / cost savings for your organisation
- Case Study & Videos
Corporate
- Responsibility and accountability
- Adherence to legislative and regulatory requirements
- Policies
- Delegation and supervision
- Insurance
- Case Study & Videos
Business impact analysis
- A common sense approach
- How to collect data
- Critical scoring example (red / green / amber)
- Case Study & Videos
Departmental implications
- HR
- IT
- Insurance
- Others
- Case Study & Videos
Communication
- The importance of communication
- Call tree(s) and examples
- Contractors and suppliers
- Case Study & Videos