2010 Press Releases

Communicate, share and network on the largest BC-DR global forum

Singapore, 19 November 2010 – The largest business continuity (BC) - Disaster Recovery (DR) online forum to date, boasts an ever swelling number of over 3000 members, 300 over discussions and 50 downloadable files from over 60 countries!

Hosted since by renowned BC-DR institution, BCM Institute, the invitation only forum with chapters in Kuwait, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand & India has been uniting BC and DR peers since 2009- being the leading and fastest growing, active community on the Internet.

Business Continuity Conference Heavyweights in Information Security Themed Event

KUALA LUMPUR, 5th November 2010 -- The Cyber Security Malaysia Awards, Conference and Exhibition (CSM-ACE) 2010 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre being largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) security themed event in the country ended recently witnessing a large stream of professionals turning their attention to Business Continuity Planning issues.

Business Resiliency Beyond Effective Trade

KUALA LUMPUR, 29 October 2010 -- The Global Coalition for Efficient Logistics (GCEL), the Geneva-based non-profit organisation made up of public-private partnership of organisations, NGOs and governments, hosted its Humawealth Genesis Awareness Program for its members - mostly leaders in the finance, insurance and technology industry here recently. The program calls its members to look into its soft infrastructure to address the issue of the highly fragmented and inefficient logistic industry for a solution.

Indeed as the programs calls for a smarter region leading to a smarter planet through a greater global coalition for higher trade effiency -saving this region billions of dollars, the global community can also be assured of a greater efficiency for disaster relief at times when it is needed most.

BCM Institute's biggest producer of BC certified professionals

22 October 2010 – There's simply a never-ending market for the business continuity training and certification while many professionals achieve this title every year, many more set it as their goal add this to their individual credential's excellent reputation. Attesting to this, the BCM (Business Continuity Management) Institute operations in Singapore and Malaysia saw an influx of over 70 trainees, from 3 intakes, in just 2 months!

BCM Benchmarking : Bridging Your Business Continuity Programme to International Standards and Best Practices

Kuala Lumpur, 15 October 2010 – The emphasis of business continuity management has always been to meet either or both regulatory and compliance requirements. In reality, this responsibility is assign organization-wide but unfortunately, it usually left to the BCM Team and its business unit coordinators. The need to move the priority of BCM to a higher level requires a change in the entire programme management mindset of the professionals as they need to enlist all stakeholders who are affected by the readiness level of the BC plan. These does not only include the auditors, it includes anyone who is involves in risk management, corporate governance and maintaining due diligence within an organization.

Meet-the-Expert Debuts in Brunei

Bandar Seri Begawan, 8 October 2010 - Professionals from private and public sector alike for the very first time, were given insights on how to develop an efficient response in the event of a disaster from an business approach, in the Meet-the-Experts seminar recently.

The day-long Business Continuity Management (BCM) seminar was held as a result of joint collaboration by international business continuity & certification body, BCM Institute and ILM Academy, Brunei.

Metro Systems Corporation Celebrates 25 Years of Providing Disaster Recovery Solutions in SEA

Bangkok, 29 September 2010 - As part of its 25 year celebrations, Metro Systems Corporation Public Company Limited (MSC) invited distinguished speakers from leading BC-DR professionals in Thailand including BCM Institute Thailand's Country Manager, Mr Khun Choochai Mongkolkitikul in a 2-day technology update seminar. Founded in 1986, MSC is the first business partner of IBM in Southeast Asia. Since then, MSC expanded its business to offer fully integrated IT solutions & services, covering a wide range of the world’s leading IT products namely IBM, HP, Canon, Microsoft and many more.

Disaster Simulation Practice Makes It Perfect

SINGAPORE, 1 October 2010 – 0800 hours, Thursday 17 September, the Chief Information Officer of an insurance company calls for a meeting with Top Management and staff, informing them that a major bank has just reported a bomb threat at its headquarters. While staff get into their disaster response mode, unbeknown to the fact that this would be one of a series of disaster drills or simulations, that was scheduled the day before by the Crisis Management Team (CMT). The CMT consists of key executives, essential key supporting players and the heads of business with critical functions start to deploy the crisis management plan.

Survey Reveals BC-DR Issues will Dominate Businesses In Next 12 Months

SINGAPORE, 24 September 2010- Forrester Research Inc.’s latest survey of 2,803 IT decision-makers worldwide found improving business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities is the number one priority for small and medium businesses and the second highest priority for enterprises. The leading independent technology and market research company’s survey also revealed that the scope of BC-DR programs is growing also, according to the research. In fact, mature BC-DR programs now address all sources of downtime, including mundane power outages and weather-related disruptions, not just rare, catastrophic disasters.

Back To Basics: Getting Started with BC-DR Planning and Best Practices

[Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, 24 September 2010] The unsung heroes from large to medium-sized organisations, BC-DR professionals serve an important function in organisations - working tirelessly to ensure that their organizations are fully prepared for disruptions arising from disasters by subjecting their business continuity and disaster recovery plans to rigorous tests.

Business Continuity for Effective Logistics

Singapore, 17 September 2010 - In Business Continuity Management (BCM) practice, one can identify a variety of threats in the Risk analysis and review phase ranging from natural disasters to terrorist attacks, but little does the complexity of the supply chain is rated as the greatest threat. For organizations where their core business deals with supply chain management and time sensitivity, this is critical.

IT Disaster Recovery Planning To Counter Malware Threats

SINGAPORE, 24 September 2010 - When the threat environment is constantly changing, how do you manage black swan events in the logistics industry continuously without disrupting the critical flow of goods? As a CSO, you have to look after your business partners, across all links that connect to your supply chain—whether that chain is physical or virtual.

GCEL Post-Event 14 Sept 2010

Building the Next-Generation ASEAN BC-DR Leader

SINGAPORE, 14 September 2010 -

Few would dispute that BCM Institute sits at the centre of the BC-DR industry in ASEAN. As the leader in BC-DR training, BCM Institute is now the premier BC-DR training provider in ASEAN. The rapid pace of globalization however, raises a new set of management questions for BC-DR leaders—and the programs that train them. Dr Goh explains that this is why BCM Institute’s courseware is changing to meet the needs of a new world, one in which companies are borderless and emerging markets in various industries demand increasingly experienced BC-DR talent.

McKinsey Survey: Management Admit General Business Uncertainty During Crisis

Crisis Management Key To Alleviate Business Uncertainty

SINGAPORE, 19 Aug 2010 - A *McKinsey Quarterly 2009 global survey in of 1653 respondents revealed that 47% of C-Level executives and Senior managers admitted to having feelings of General Business Uncertainty during an economic crisis. In addition, their sources of stress stemmed from their dissatisfaction with their performance during the crisis especially a lack of operating flexibility, repeated rounds of cost cutting, uncertainty about one’s job and explaining the company’s performance to investors. The survey findings suggest there was a lack of a proper crisis management plan in place or in the case of its existence it was perhaps not communicated to all individuals in the organisation.

Instructor Close-Up: Chairman of BCM Institute’s Certification Review Committee

BCM Institute's Courses Preferred For Asian Relevance

SINGAPORE, 24 Aug 2010 - Recent years have seen an unprecedented growth and interest in the BC-DR profession in Asia, spurred in no small part by instances of bad PR behavior, on the part of the world’s most powerful corporations and the lack of a successful BCM program. The quick-fix solution most organisations take is to send their employees for a BCM refresher course which does not have much relevancy to the Asian environment.

Think Big. Start Small. Act now!

It's Never Too Late for Small Medium Enterprises to Have a BC Plan

SINGAPORE, 5 Aug 2010 - Why do SMEs place low priority on business continuity planning? Stalwart supporters of good business continuity management cite that unjustified operational costs including the lack of human and infrastructural resources; fire-fighting with declining sales dominate and override the daily business agenda of many businesses. Owners of many of these decade-old, flood-fire-survivor businesses also question the need for investing on business continuity.

BCM Institute & UN Speakers Champion Humawealth Program

SINGAPORE, 3 September 2010 - GCEL or The Global Coalition for Efficient Logistics, the Geneva-based non-profit organisation made up of public-private partnership of organisations, NGOs and governments, is hosting a Humawealth Genesis Awareness Program here. World renowned for its Humawealth Program which aims to solve the problem of a highly inefficient logistics industry, has requested speakers hailing from the United Nations namely, Mr David Morrison, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Capital Development Fund as well as BCM Institute’s President Dr Goh Moh Heng for this event. Dr Goh will be addressing an exclusive, by-invitation-only, audience of high ranking officers from government and international organisations on the 9th September 2010, 2.30pm to 5.30pm at the Fullerton Hotel, on the need to enhance disaster recovery procedures for the logistics industry.

Instructor Close-Up: Dr Lim Yew Ban, Chief Learning Officer of BCM Institute

SINGAPORE, 4 August 2010 - Have you ever wondered about the background of BCM Institute's course instructors and what draws them to volunteer their precious time with the professionals who attend our courses? Well, over the coming months, we will be introducing to our business continuity-disaster recovery (BC-DR) community, our eminent team of course instructors. To kick-off our first Close-Up series, we have Dr Lim Yew Ban who has 10 years of training and lecturing experience up to the doctoral level. Coupled with his extensive experience in designing and developing professional courseware with industry practitioners, his expertise is highly sought-after in IT-Disaster Recovery circles.

BCM Institute Advances BC-DR Careers Globally

SINGAPORE, 26 August 2010 – From Singapore to Spain, global disasters and management mishaps have churned a buttering interest in both business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) international practices and the global mobility of these professionals.

Is Your Organisation Ready For The Next Pandemic?

SINGAPORE, 11 Aug 2010 - Professor Peter Collignon, Canberra Hospital's head of infectious diseases department has stated that the superbug NDM-1 has infected three Australians and a patient who had plastic surgery in Mumbai. Also known as the New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1 (NDM-1), it was first identified in 2009 in a Swedish patient admitted to hospital in Mumbai. Could we be seeing a new superbug pandemic in the offing and if so, is your organisation ready for a superbug pandemic or even a pandemic flu plan for that matter?

Temasek Poly launches Asia's First Academic-Industrial BCM program