Business Continuity Training

This course provides an intensive, hands-on workshop covering all major aspects of Business Continuity Planning for corporations and government organizations. Save $ 500 when you register early!

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This 3-day course provides an intensive, hands-on workshop covering all major aspects of Business Continuity Planning for corporations and government organizations.

“How to do” plus “What to do”

Drawing from the new International Business Continuity Standard ISO 22301, the British Standard BS 25999, and the American standard NFPA 1600 US, we believe this course “ECP-601: Effective Business Continuity Management” is the very best business continuity training offered anywhere in the world.

Learn how to initiate and manage a comprehensive BCP project—from start to finish! In addition to "best principles", you also learn "best practices" - the practical "how to" develop and maintain effective continuity plans. We teach you “what” you need to know plus “how” to do it.

The course covers:

- tools and techniques for conducting risk assessments and business impact analysis

- practical methodologies to design and manage effective continuity plans

- case studies to examine real life situations and their solutions

- guided study and group exercises to apply the lessons learned

- methodologies for creating a plan to support your business in the face of any critical incident.

Participants leave the course with workbooks and a Flashdrive full of BCP software - hundreds of templates, files, spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations etc.

Participants also receive BIA templates and a complete and detailed business continuity plan with plan templates for their reference.

This course is fully accredited by the National Institute for Business Continuity Management.

Completion of this course qualifies participants to write the certification exam to obtain the professional designation of Certified Continuity Manager (CCM). IBCT has had virtually 100% success preparing course participants for this exam. In the unlikely event that you do not succeed in your first attempt at the exam, IBCT will pay the $ 500 fee for any subsequent attempts.

A typical course participant has less than two years of experience in business continuity planning! They have been ‘volun-told’ into this new role and need to know how to successfully carry out these new duties.

This course is suitable for—and has been used effectively by—every type of organization in the private and non-profit sector and government. The techniques and tools we provide are applicable to banking, insurance, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, federal, state and local government organizations, in addition to international corporations and non-profit agencies.

In addition, participants leave this course with our Diploma in Business Continuity Management, a CEU certificate for 32 contact hours, a CD full of BCP tools and, on successful completion of the CCM exam, the Certified Continuity Manager designation.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants should:
· have a solid understanding of the overall Continuity Management lifecycle
· have the tools and knowledge required to conduct Risk Assessments and Impact Analyses for their organization
· be able to guide their IT and business unit personnel through the development of practical and effective business resumption plans
· understand the advantages and disadvantages of plan development software packages and commercial recovery services
· know how to establish the organizational framework required to keep their Continuity plans current and viable
· have the tools and knowledge required to plan and coordinate effective tests and exercises
· know how to maintain support and commitment for the Continuity program
· have a solid understanding of Continuity "Best Practices"
- successfully write the certification exam for the "Certified Continuity Manager" designation

Topics covered include:

1. Business Continuity Lifecycle Management:
· The new realities of Business Continuity Planning
· Management's roles and responsibilities with respect to Business Continuity
· Establishing and managing a Business Continuity program
· How to evaluate, and maximize, the program's cost-effectiveness
· Generally Accepted Business Continuity 'Best Practices'
· Future trends in Business Continuity Management

2. Business Impact Analysis:
· Identifying critical business processes
· Determining impacts of business interruption
· Assessing the time-sensitivity of impacts
· Developing impact mitigation strategies
· Establishing the 'maximum tolerable downtime' of critical processes
· Determining minimum resource requirements for business resumption
· Preparing and presenting a Business Impact Assessment report
· Interview techniques

3. Business Resumption Planning:
· Establishing Business Unit Recovery teams
· Identifying planning assumptions
· Documenting recovery strategies and resource requirements
· Developing activity and task lists for each phase of the recovery
· Documenting tasks and compiling supporting information

4. Setting the Framework - Enabling your Continuity Program
· Overview of Continuity 'best practices'
· Setting corporate policies, objectives and budgets
· Assigning accountability for the Continuity program
· Establishing the Business Continuity teams
· Implementing an Incident Command / Crisis Management Framework

5. Keeping the Plan Alive - Validating and Maintaining your Continuity Program
· Maintaining and administering Business Continuity plans
· Auditing and evaluating Business Continuity plans

6. Testing, Training and Exercising a BCP Program
- conducting tests, training and exercises of the Business Continuity plan

7. Implementing the Program
· Selecting the Right ‘Vehicles’
· Obtaining Budgetary Approval
· Preparing the Program Content
· Launching the Program
· Managing the Ongoing Program
- Maintaining management support and commitment

Course Handouts:
· Print and Electronic Versions of all Presentation Materials
· Excel Spreadsheet tools for Risk Assessments, Business Impact Analysis, Strategy Evaluations, Awareness and Training, and more
· Word document templates and a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan.

Audience

This course is designed for new or experienced business continuity planners, business unit staff and information technology staff who are involved in or manage business continuity planning functions.

AGENDA

Day 1

Evolution of Business Continuity Planning

Six Elements of the BCM Life Cycle

Element One: Understanding the Organization
Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis
Collecting and Compiling the Data
Analyzing the Data and Determining Options

Case Study/Exercise

Element Two: Determining BCM strategy
Identifying Strategies to Reduce Risk and Impact
Overview of Computer Recovery Planning
What Do I Do Next?
Fast Tracking the Process

Case Study/Exercise

Day 2

Element Three: Developing and implementing a BCM response
Implementing a Crisis Management Framework
Establishing the BCP teams
Business Resumption Planning

Case Study/Exercise

Element 4: Exercising, Maintenance and Review
Testing and Validating BCP plans
Exercising BCP teams
Enabling the BCP program
Maintaining and Administering BCP plans
Auditing and Evaluating BCP plans

Case Study/Exercise

Day 3

Element 5: Embedding BCM in the Organization’s Culture
Developing a BCM Awareness & Training program

Case Study/Exercise

Element 6: BCM Program Management
Maintaining Management Commitment
Business Continuity Best Practices

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