south midlands forum december meeting
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BCI South Midlands Forum3rd December 2015
Welcome
BCI South Midlands ForumPromoting Best Practice In Business Continuity
AGENDA
BCI UpdateDavid West
BCI South Midlands ForumPromoting Best Practice In Business Continuity
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BCI Update:
Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2016• New date – 16th – 20th May 2016
• Theme is ‘return on investment’
Appeal for tools and templatesHave you developed business continuity tools or templates that you are willing to share with the business continuity community?
• Do you have tried and tested exercise scenarios? • Examples of effective ways to demonstrate return on BC investment?• A BIA questionnaire that has never let you down? • A way of evaluating how you are performing against Standards? • Model BC plans?• Checklists for procedures?
All submissions will be quality assured before publication with authors being credited. Submissions and questions to [email protected]
Working paper series – contributions neededPapers can come in the form of best practice articles, case studies, empirical research, quantitative/qualitative analysis, or a meta-analysis of available literature in the field, among others.
a. capture the state of knowledge in business continuity (BC) and related fields; b. track current and emerging BC trends; c. provide inputs that may influence the profession; and d. discuss the future of BC as a discipline.
Papers can range from 2,500-5,000 words.
Submissions and enquiries to [email protected]
Cyber Supply Chain Resilience: A Business Continuity Approach• Latest working group paper now published• Offers practitioners another perspective in this field by
introducing the ‘cyber’ element of building resilience in supply chains and showing the interface among supply chain management, BC and information security. It also offers a vision on how coordinating these various operational disciplines might look in practice.
• Free to download from BCI website http://goo.gl/idzwwy
Resilience challenge for the BC profession• 2020 group paper now published• Positions BC as an integral part of resilience, the benefit
of which can be felt in a variety of ways throughout an organization.
• Free to download from BCI website http://www.bcifiles.com/8thReport.pdf
Guide to exercising your BC plan• Recent study showed that nearly half of respondents to a survey
had not tested their plans over the previous year and half of those had no plans to do so over the next twelve months
• What the main types of exercises are• What situation it would be appropriate to use them• How to plan an exercise• What needs to be considered when doing so• Can be downloaded free from http://
www.thebci.org/index.php/exercising-your-business-continuity-plan
BCI presentations now on Slideshare• Library of presentations available from BCI events• http://www.slideshare.net/TheBCEye• Hierarchy of availability – Unrestricted, no download
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