Certified Business Continuity and Resilience Professional
All what you need to know about the BCM Framework and how to build a robust framework for your organization
Ratings 4.59 / 5.00
What You Will Learn!
- What is Business Continuity Management
- Why BCM is important for organizations to survive and thrive
- Benefits & Value of establishing an effective Business Continuity Planning
- The ultimate 7 steps you need to know to perfect your Business Continuity Plan-BCP
- BCM Program Initiation Strategic Planning
- Introduction to the Risk Assessment process
- The updated Operational Risk Taxonomy you need to understand before identifying and assessing risks
- Risk Identification: How to identify risks relevant to your organization and industry
- How to identify causes, sources and drivers of disruption to your organization’s key activities
- Real examples of costs to organizational disruptions (you'll be surprised how much it could cost your organization)
- A case study.. - How preventable incidents could cost your business when you're not well prepared?
- Sources of Risk Identification: what are the 4 most important sources of data which you can use to identify relevant risks to your organization?
- What are the top 10 operational risks to watch for?
- Risk Analysis: How to determine the extent of the impact on your business?
- What you need to factor in your Impact Assessment? Customer impact, Financial impact, Regulatory impact, Operational impact, Reputational impact, Human impact
- Visuals and examples of Risk Assessment and Risk Impact
- Risk Evaluation: how to determine the probability and impact of the identified risks?
- How to prioritize risk treatment
- What is Inherent Risk and what is Residual risk and why we need both?
- What is control and what is control assessment?
- How control effective ness affects Residual Risk?
- The Business Impacts Analysis-BIA, the most important step to build a robust Business Continuity Plan
- Why a proper BIA process is important to your organizational resilience
- What are the 6 key steps you need to follow to master the Business Impact Analysis?
- What is Recovery Time Objectives-RTO and Recovery Point Objectives-RPO?
- Building a Business Continuity Strategy: What are the 10 key steps to define a successful Continuity Strategy?
- BCP success factors: How would I know if my Business Continuity Strategy is Good enough?
- Creating the BCP Framework: What are the key elements you should see in a comprehensive BCP?
- Awareness and Training Programs: Why Awareness and Training are imperative elements in your BCM program?
- How to Promote BCM awareness?
- Tips & Success Factors for a strong awareness program
- BCP Exercise, Assessment, and Maintenance: Why your BCP can't survive without those?
- How to develop an effective exercising program?
- What are the key Pre Exercise activities, Exercise activities and Post Exercise activities?
- Tabletop exercises and their importance: what is the difference between those who exercise and those who don't?
- Monitoring, evaluation and maintenance activities
- The top 10 Reasons behind every BCP failure!
- A review of ISO 22301 principles
- Key Risk Indicators- KRI's: Why and How to use them?
- Crisis Communication: Why Crisis Communication is important?
- How to design an effective Crisis communication plan?
- Tips for Effective Communication During a Disruption
- Third Party Risk Management (TPRM): Why TPRM is important for your Business Continuity?
- Are you ready for a Supply Chain Disruption?
- What are the top 5 BCM Road blocks that can hold your success?
- Emergency Response Plans: What are the 15 most common emergency incidents you need to prepare for?
- Effective Business Continuity Plan: What are the top six high priority objectives for an effective Business Continuity Plan?
- Common misconceptions about BCM and how to respond to them
- Highly effective tips for you to excel in your BCM career
Description
Hello and welcome to one of the top and highest-rated Business Continuity courses on the platform.
Throughout this course, you'll go through over 6 hrs of best in class Business Continuity resources that will not only develop a high in demand skill nowadays but also will enable you to help your organization effectively weather business disruption events and also will advance your skill set to progress your career further.
Almost each and every organization has experienced at least a single business disruption event that caused a certain level of operational disruption and affected its ability to deliver its products and services to a certain extent.
Only organizations that have planned for potential disruption events are able to survive and recover fairly quickly and in comparison to their competitors
Business disruption events are increasing exponentially as the world is becoming highly interconnected and highly interdependent every day, a disruption event in one organization, in one country can impact other organizations or other countries on the other side of the world almost momentarily.
Robust risk management, advance planning, and investment in readiness and business continuity planning are the keys to organizational resilience, growth, and survival, And that is your role to master in your organization.
Throughout this Business Continuity master class you'll learn:
- Introduction to important Business Continuity Management (BCM) concepts and definitions
• You will learn what is Business Continuity and Business Continuity Management
• You will learn what are the key benefits of establishing an effective Business Continuity Program.
• You will learn why effective Business Continuity Management is becoming a strategic and regulatory requirement.
- Program Initiation and Strategic Planning:
• You will learn how to gain leadership commitment as the first step in the success of your program
• You will learn the Key strategic steps for initiating a successful BCM program
- Risk Assessment:
• You will learn about the Most Common Disruption Events an Organization has to plan for
• You will learn the 3 key steps in the risk management lifecycle
• You will learn about the risk Impact and probability matrix
• You will learn the process of risk identification
• You will learn how to perform Risk Analysis
• You will learn how to evaluate risks and how to determine the magnitude of the impact from different aspects.
- Control assessment
• You’ll understand the concepts of inherent and residual risks and how controls affect the residual risk level
• You’ll learn the different types of controls and how to assess control efficiency.
- Business Impact Analysis
• You will learn and understand the concept and the objectives of the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and how it helps you better understand your organization’s business and processes.
• You will learn ISO 22301 standards for the BIA process.
• You will learn how to identify and prioritize functions (which ones will have the greatest impact should they not be available?)
• You will learn how to identify dependencies across functions (upstream & downstream)
• You will learn how to identify the qualitative and quantitative criteria to assess the impact on the entity (risk assessment)
• You will learn how to identify recovery objectives (RTO & RPO)
• You will learn how to assess the resources required to support recovery objectives
• You will learn how to identify gaps between required resources and existing ones.
- Defining Business continuity strategies:
• You will learn how to define and identify actionable Continuity and Recovery Strategies
• You will learn what a successful Continuity Strategy should cover.
• You will learn the key resources needed to build your BCM strategy
- Creating the BCP Framework:
• You will study ISO 22301 requirements for the BCM framework and procedures to manage the organization during a disruption
• You will learn the 9 key pillars of a strategic BCP framework.
- Awareness and Training Programs
• You will study the objectives and the importance of establishing a training program
• You will learn different types of training programs plus Tips & Success Factors.
- Exercise, Assessment, and Maintenance
• You will learn how to develop an effective exercise program
• You will learn Pre-Exercise activities, Exercise activities, and Post-Exercise activities
• You will study a Sample Exercise Results report
- Why BCPs fail?
• You will learn the Top 10 Reasons behind every BCP failure
• Case studies for famous BCP failure and the implications on organizations.
- Key Risk Indicators (KRI’s)
• The objectives of establishing effective KRIs
• How to Design effective KRIs
- Crisis communication plan
• Why Crisis Communication is important?
• How to design an effective Crisis communication plan?
• Tips for Effective Communication During a Disruption or a Crisis situation.
- Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)
• Why TPRM is important?
• Risks associated with TP failure and the importance of managing TP Risk in Business Continuity Planning
- Top five BCM Roadblocks
- Emergency response Plans
• Most common emergency incidents you have to prepare for.
- Top six high-priority objectives for an effective Business Continuity Plan
- Understand common myths and misconceptions about Business Continuity
- Highly effective tips and hints for building fundamental Business Resilience from practical experience.
Note:
This course is designed with an interactive and engaging learning experience that includes activities, exercises, or assignments following each key learning objective to ensure solidifying the concepts and getting us all engaged in the learning experience.· Make sure to finish any exercise or activity before moving to the next section.
The material and resources in this course are not only the best from an academic side but also from my real-life practical experience. I have led the design and implementation of the steps, strategies, and approaches in this course within the organizations I worked with and they all worked when we invoked the Business Continuity Plans and have been a savior.
This course is ideal for anyone looking to improve their skills in the following areas:
Business Continuity Management
Business Continuity Planning
ISO 22301 guidelines
Risk Assessment
Business Impact Analysis
Third-party / Supplier Risk Management
Who Should Attend!
- Risk analysts at all levels
- operational risk analysts at all levels
- business continuity analysts at all levels
- Enterprise Risk analysts at all levels