Managing business operations in current times is a big challenge. Apart from having to keep looking at the bottom lines and market shares, the management has another major area to be concerned about which is continually keep assessing the risk to the business from all quarters and build disaster recovering plan in place. With the advent of Covid-19, it's never be important to think resiliently like this time. Now businesses are considering incorporating a business continuity management system or at least having a plan for that.

Business Continuity Management is one of the most prominent components within Enterprise-Wide Risk Management framework (ERM) , therefore, all biggest consulting firms like Mckinsey, BCG, Bain, PwC consulting, KPMG consulting, Deloitte consulting, EY consulting are providing operational risk advisory services to dozen companies around the world.

This course is based on my 12 years of experience in auditing many elite organizations around the world and understand how they ensure business operation continuity during challenging times and how business resiliency proves its effectiveness.

BY ATTENDING THIS COURSE, you would be able to:

- Explain why we need BCM

- Define what is BCM and objectives of BCM Programme

- Describe the phases in the BCM Life Cycle

- Understand the roles and responsibilities of each party in the BCM program.

- Explain what is "business as usual" (BAU)

- Recognize who should be responsible to develop, implement, participate and cultivate BCM

• during BAU

• during crisis

- State the statutory requirements for BCM from certain countries around the world.

- State what crisis is

- Define what crisis management is

- Differentiate between crisis management and crisis communication

- Describe what should be done in the event of crisis as according to the BCM plans

- Explain the escalation and communication process during crisis

- Work like risk professionals in any organization around the world.

- Get a certificate of completion of this course