Business Planning Training - Business Continuity

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Introduction to Business Continuity

Overview
This course is intended to give those new to Business Continuity (BC) an understanding of BC Planning and the skills and techniques required to create a Business Continuity Plan. The course is based around the Business Continuity Institute’s (BCI) Good Practice Guidelines and BS 25999. The course covers the whole BC lifecycle and includes tip, trick and pitfalls for anyone starting out on the process.

Delivery: 1 day, instructor led

Course Objectives
The objectives of this course are:

1. Give newcomers and understanding of Business Continuity
2. Explain how a BC programme should be managed
3. How to create a BC plan
4. Understanding the challenges in creating a plan
5. An overview of Disaster Recovery and how it fits into Business Continuity Planning

Target Audience
Those new to Business Continuity at any level within an organisation whether Private or Public Sector.

Pre-requisites
No previous knowledge is necessary for this course

Course Content
The course covers the following:

1. The background to Business Continuity
2. The Jargon!
3. Where to start
4. Executive buy in
5. The BC Lifecycle in details (each stage clearly explained)
6. How to test plans
7. Disaster recovery
8. Roles and responsibilities
9. Communications
10. People issues
11. How to carry out a business impact analysis and conduct risk assessments
12. Promoting BC within your orginisation
13. What does a plan look like?

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