Practical ISO22301 Business Continuity Management That Works

How to Implement a Business Continuity System, Develop Business Continuity Strategies & Write Business Continuity Plans

Created by: Patrick Ow CA Risk Specialist
Risk Management & Organisational Resilience Specialist

What Will I Learn?

• Keep your business operating regardless of the type of disruption you may experience or face using a strategic top-down approach to business continuity.
• Implement a business continuity system for your organisation, develop practical business continuity strategies and write usable business continuity plans.
• Improve and strengthen organisational resilience through the holistic integration of risk management, business continuity management, and resilience management.
• Implement the five Rs of business continuity – Risk management, response, recovery, restoration, and resumption and learn about this is an integrated approach.
• Apply the international risk management process, ISO 31000, to effectively build and strengthen your organisational resilience and achieve your objectives..
• Design and implement a fit-for-purpose business continuity management system per ISO 22301 that is practical to your organisational context and circumstances..
• Conduct effective ISO 22301 business impact analysis to determine the criticality of your business activities and only focus on what matters most to you..
• Implement practical ISO 31000 risk assessments to effectively identify and manage the disruption-related risks that may impact your organisational objectives.
• Develop organisational-wide business continuity strategies that will guide and simplify the development of essential business continuity plans per ISO 22332.
• Develop implementable but practical business continuity strategies for your operational areas per ISO 22331 using minimum effort and maximum results..
• Learn to strategically determine what business continuity plans are actually needed using a top-down approach that simplifies and prioritises plan writing.
• Understand and apply the ten-step better practice business continuity management process in your organisation and how you can strengthen your resilience..
• Learn about the 10 common disruptions to future-proof your organisation and understand and identify the different types of mitigations you are implement.
• Understand the importance of third-party risk management in identifying, managing and minimising business continuity and disruption risks to the organisation.
• Understand the relationship between climate change and business continuity, and how to identify and manage climate-related disruption and continuity risks.
• Understand how to use the criticality worksheet to strategically develop your business continuity strategies and plans that interoperate and integrate.

Requirements

• Openness and desire to learn new contemporary concepts and approaches.
• No prior business continuity experience is required.

Target audience

• People who are struggling with their current business continuity planning.
• People who are responsible for developing business continuity strategies and plans in their organisations.
• Business owners, executives, managers, team leaders and employees who want to meet the ever-increasing customer expectations for the high availability of products and services.
• Information technology professionals
• People & culture or human resource professionals
• Finance professionals
• Facilities management professionals
• Risk management professionals
• Communications professionals