Workshop: Introduction to Business Continuity Management
Date: 19 October 2010
Time: 0930 - 1700
Topics:
- Understanding the six elements of the BCM lifecycle.
- Be able to describe the BCM requirements of British Standard BS25999.
- Appreciate the role of the Business Impact Analysis in determining critical processes and resources.
- Be able to describe the role of the Business Continuity Plan and understand how to produce one.
- Appreciate the function of BCM Strategies and define what they should cover.
- Be able to describe how to embed BCM in an organization.
- Understand the options for exercising, maintaining and reviewing BCM capabilities.
Summary: This one-day workshop will equip delegates with an understanding of how to develop, validate and embed a Business Continuity Management capability. Upon completion of the workshop they will be able to lead BCM implementation or development work within their organisation.
Who Should Attend: Anyone with responsibility for the continuance of service or product provision in the event of an emergency and anyone keen to understand how continuity can be a competitive advantage. This is likely to include senior managers, operations managers, risk managers and H&S managers.
Venue: tbc
Price per delegate: £250 plus VAT
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Workshop: Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises
Date: 18 January 2011
Time: 0930 - 1700
Topics:
- Appreciate the importance of validating continuity, contingency, security and H&S plans.
- Understanding the planning lifecycle and where exercising fits within it.
- Be able to describe the requirements of British Standard PD25666 Exercising and Testing Continuity and Contingency Plans.
- Appreciate the how to select suitable exercise aims and objectives.
- Understand the exercise methodologies that can be employed.
- Understand the resources, including people, required to deliver an exercise.
- Be clear on how to write an exercise script.
- Appreciate the issues to be addressed in delivering and validating an exercise.
- Understand how to conduct post exercise activities and how to identify the major lessons produced.
Summary: This one-day workshop will equip delegates with an understanding of how to design, deliver and evaluate an exercise of their business continuity, emergency, security or H&S plans. Upon completion of the workshop they will be able to in the conduct of a programme of exercises for their organisation.
Who Should Attend: Anyone with responsibility for the continuance of service or product provision in the event of an emergency and anyone keen to understand how continuity can be a competitive advantage. This is likely to include senior managers, operations managers, risk managers and H&S managers.
Venue: tbc
Price per delegate: £250 plus VAT
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Workshop: Executive Introduction to Organisational Resilience
Date: 12 April 2011
Time: 0930 - 1300
Topics:
- The changing risk perception of society and organisations.
- Risk as an organisational and cultural concept.
- Leadership’s role in reducing organisational vulnerability.
- Building a High Reliability Organisation.
- The Components of Resilience.
Summary: This half-day workshop will equip delegates with the knowledge surrounding research into organisational resilience. They will be clear on why crises happen to organisations and, importantly, why the culture and leadership within an organisation can determine how prone that organisation is to disasters. Delegates will also explore how to build High Reliability Organisations and investigate the components of a true resilience capability.
Who Should Attend: Anyone with responsibility for leadership within technically and structurally complex organisations that have the potential for any crises to produce significant long-term damage. Anyone interested in how organisational resilience can enhance their organisation’s performance and protect the interests of their staff, shareholders, partners and wider stakeholders.
Venue: tbc
Price per delegate: £185 plus VAT
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