Duration: 1 day

• Uncovering the business requirements for effective response, recovery and resumption is an important stage in Business Continuity Plan. Equally important is the ability to translate them into effective and efficient BC plans. This course will impart to the participants the core skills to identify viable business continuity strategies, and evaluate them; to put together a corporate-wide business continuity strategy supported by the business unit strategies.

Global Schedule

Course Objectives

• Use the results of the BIA to confirm the resource requirements.
• Identify alternative ways of providing resource requirements following a disruption, the costs and implications.
• Develop an evaluation method and set baseline criteria for analysis.
• Analyze the appropriateness of each option to meet the business need.
• Prepare cost/benefit analysis of strategy options.
• Present options and recommended solutions to senior management for approval.
• Prepare ‘statements of requirements’ for use in formal invitations to tender and contracts or formal agreements, including any jurisdictional and regulatory requirements.
• Interpret supplier proposals in relation to the statement of requirements.
• Identify any exclusion from the statement of requirements and advise on additional or alternative offerings.
• Select, using a procurement process, the resource and service suppliers and products required to meet the business need.
• Draw up an action plan to enable the agreed strategy solutions to be implemented.

Course Benefit

• Participants will be empowered

Audience

• Organizational BCM Coordinators, BC managers and coordinators; BC project team will benefit from this specially designed course.

Follow-up Courses

• BCM Specialized courses.