By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply best practices in Business Continuity Management (BCM), including methodologies, tools, and approaches.
• Enhance organizational capabilities and techniques within a Business Continuity team.
• Design, implement and manage a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)

This course is ideal for anyone who is in, works with, or is training to be in any organizational planning role, or position such as; Business Continuity Managers, Incident Response teams, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or Chief Information Officer (CIO), or Operational Risk Managers.

Target Competencies

• Team Management
• Strategic Planning
• Communication skills
• Crisis Management
• Processes Thinking
• Analysing skills

This course combines presentations as well as individual and team activities designed to establish a practical understanding of the elements of Business Continuity Management, enabling you to construct, deploy and validate relevant Business Continuity Management strategies/plans.

Introduction to Business Continuity Management and Organizational Resilience

• How does business continuity provide value to the organization?
• Definition and components of Organizational Resilience

Business Continuity Management program, policy and strategy

• Application of a Business Continuity Management program and suitable leadership
• Business continuity policy requirements
• Business Continuity Strategy - How, what and to which extent?
• Emergency and contingency plans
• Understand stakeholder expectations.
• Legislation, regulations and standards that should be followed.

The Business Continuity Plan – development and implementation

• The plan ownership and structure
• Business continuity manager and team leaders’ roles and responsibilities
• Business continuity management costs

Implementing the Business Continuity Program

• Development of the competency’s framework required for the operational planning of business continuity management.
• Analysing training needs and skills and competencies framework

Risk Management and Business Impact Analysis

• Risk Management
• Implementing business impact analysis methodologies
• Introduction to different types of business impact analysis
• Strategic
• Tactical
• Operational
• Business impact analysis case study

Additional considerations within Business Continuity Management

• BCM in the public and private sectors
• Business management challenges in the KSA and GCC

Rectus attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.