Business Continuity Management: Key Principles and Best Practices

By Dark Soul

This book is a comprehensive guide aimed at enhancing the business continuity management in the face of crises and threats to continuity. It delves into the importance of risk management, ethics, and information management within public service organizations, using real-world examples and international standards as a foundation. The book is structured into two parts:

1. Part I provides an overview of the concepts and rationale behind business continuity management efforts, along with examples of existing standards and guidelines in the field.
2. Part II delves into the practical implementation of strategies to ensure continuity of business, offering a step-by-step approach to creating a business framework within continuity management organizations.

Overall, the book serves as a vital resource for officials and professionals seeking to fortify business continuity management against various challenges and crises, drawing from both theoretical insights and practical methodologies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dark Soul
• Release date: Jan 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224274819

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A Comprehensive Guide by Dark Soul

Introduction

Structure of the book This book has two parts:

• PART I: briefly discusses what and why; and provides examples of several existing standards and guidelines.

• PART 2: Contains the various stages of implementation of the working machine. At the end of PART 2, there is a summary of all the recommendations presented in the book. Sources In order to achieve this work, written research was carried out (the list of used sources is at the end of this book). The FPS Internal system commissioning process presented in PART II therefore takes into account the basic principles of several reliable international standards or directives on the subjects discussed in PART I.

PART 1

- What why? -

What is?

Definition terms and; (BCM) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP); are often confused. These terms are regularly confused, but they do not mean the same thing. Here are some specific definitions that explain the difference between the two. Business Continuity Management is a comprehensive management process that identifies potential threats to the organization and the effects that these threats can cause if they materialize, and that creates a framework to increase the resilience and ability of the organization to respond effectively to protect the interests, reputation , brand and value-creating activities of its main stakeholders Business Continuity Management is a management process that identifies and limits risks, minimizes the possible effects of interruption of critical business processes (in time) and support systems, with the sole objective. of quickly restoring critical business processes. The goal is to ensure the continuity of the business process and the existence of the organization. The BCM product consists of functional and implementable measures that are both preventive (preventing situations that threaten the continuity of the organization) and preventive (when a risk occurs, they provide preventive measures to limit the damage to an acceptable level). Business Continuity Plan (BCP) In other words, a business continuity plan is a product. A business continuity plan can be described as a set of reactive (or suppressive) measures aimed at limiting the consequences to the continuity of the organization when a certain risk occurs. Business Continuity Plan can also be described as a set of reserved procedures and information that is developed, compiled, and kept ready for use in the event of an incident so that an organization can continue to perform its critical operations at an acceptable, predetermined level. "The Flemish authorities use the following definition: banquette Business Continuity Plan is a precise and dedicated book that is used when business continuity is interrupted by an event, threat or crisis. This plan specifically addresses all the key people, tools, services and activities required to manage the BCM process. Summary is in other words, the management process through which an organization takes the necessary steps to ensure the continuity of the most critical processes regardless of the circumstances. If one or more processes are interrupted, the organization must be able to intervene quickly and reliably to resume those activities as quickly as possible. A business continuity plan is a product. It is a set of procedures, contracts and contact information that can be used when an outage actually occurs. Definitions of Importance In addition to the above definitions, there are countless other definitions. Some closer than others. It is very important that the management of the organization that wants to install agree on the meaning within the organization, the goals set for it, and thus the transmission of a single message within the entire organization.

What is the relationship with other specific disciplines?

What is the relationship of two other relevant disciplines? Several opinions exist on the subject.

Risk management

Definitions The first discipline very close is risk management. Risk management is a coordination process to analyze risks (risk analysis), implement measures to limit risks to an acceptable level and maintain the required risk level.7Risk management is a process of risk