Enhance Organisational Resilience through Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning

Have you ever considered, how would your business be able to carry on in case of major disruption to your operations? How do you

reduce your organization's vulnerability to terrorism, pandemic flu, computer virus assaults or your own employee's dishonesty? This Workshop emphasizes on practical methodologies and techniques to prepare, prevent and deal with actual business disruption events with the appropriate business continuity management program.

Synopsis

Major changes & crises have the potential to disrupt the organization's income sources, operating expenses, stock price, competitive position and ongoing business viability. Disasters may strike an organization when least expected. Changes and Events such as a new regulation, the explosion of BP platform, the accidents with Toyota cars, the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Nokia facing the Iphone onslaught, etc. have alerted organizations to the adverse impact that sudden changes & disasters can have on their business.

The workshop emphasizes on the importance of ERM to build the organizational capability for continuous learning and business renewal. It provides a roadmap to deal with change and crises with a practical problem solving approach and a focus on the importance of stakeholders’ management, crisis communication and hands-on experience in preventing or controlling crisis situations. Participants will work on exercises based on actual business crisis events. This module will teach you how to recognize the threats that your organization faces develop and respond with the appropriate change & crisis management program.

Learning Objectives: How you will benefit

• Understand the main elements of a Business Continuity Management process
• Learn how to coordinate with other functions such as Crisis Management & Risk Management
• Create Business Continuity Strategies adapted to your organization’s needs
• Ensure that the BCM is internalised through training rehearsal & maintenance regime

Workshop Outline

• Understand what is a crisis and how it evolve dynamically from issue to disaster
• Understand the cirtical importance of communicating effectively during a crisis
• What is DRP, BCP, BCM, etc and how do they fit with Risk Management
•  How to perform a Risk Assessment and Business Impact Assessment (BIA) to identify vulnerabilities
• How to Identify appropriate business continuity & recovery strategies for key data/information, people, infrastructure and processes
• How to embed, test and maintain continuity arrangements (BCP/DRP)  for your organization

Toolbox

• Take part in a business disruption simulation exercise
• Develop Checklists
• How-to procedures/reminders and templates sample

Testimonials

“The methodology covered during the workshop provided me with a very useful and practical way for conducting a BIA. Only for that, it was already worth it. But it also gave me a comprehensive review of the BCM strategies and techniques.” BCM Manager, Hospital