International Organization for Standardization as stated in BS EN ISO 22301, defined business continuity as the capability of an organization to continue the delivery of its products and or services at acceptable predefined levels following a disruptive incident.

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1. Introduction

The International Organization for Standardization, as stated in BS EN ISO 22301, defined "business continuity" as the capability of an organization to continue the delivery of its products and / or services, at acceptable predefined levels, following a disruptive incident. Business continuity management is a holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause. It provides a framework for building organizational resilience with the capability of an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities.

 

Business continuity is therefore about keeping critical activities going in the event of an interruption to business, including any type of incident that may impact on business, people, buildings, IT or suppliers. Examples include power outages, network failure, cyber attacks, pandemic etc.

 

Business Continuity Management has been more particularly defined in BS EN ISO 22301. This is based on the PDCA principle as follows:

• Plan: Establish business continuity policy, objectives, targets, controls, processes and procedures.
• Do: implementation and operate the business continuity policy, controls, processes and procedures.
• Check: Monitor and review performance against business continuity policy and objectives.

 Act: Maintain and improve the Business Continuity Management System by taking corrective action.

The aim of this coursework is to develop a Business Continuity Management System based on BS EN ISO 22301 for an organization of your choice. To do this, you will work in a multi-disciplinary team and complete the deliverables more particularly specified in the next sections. A digital copy of the standard is available from the University library.

2. Specification of requirements

 As part of the coursework, you are required to complete a report which includes the sections more specifically described below.

 In completing the tasks below, attempt, where possible, to use avallable templates from the literature and those you may find from the internet as a guide. Feel free to design your own templates.

 

 2.1 Rationale for selecting the organization and contextual setting Select a suitable industry, company or organization of your choice based on available literature, work experiences, placement, or personal research, and explain the rationale for selection it. Be sure to obtain approval for the selection made by the module coordinator before you start work on the assignment. The organization selected must be large enough to sustain a serious incident that would pose a significant threat to normal business.

 

Begin by outlining a contextual account of the organization, its size, location and standing in the commercial, industrial, utilities, government or educational landscape.  Identify the key objective the organization and its main mission.  Briefly highlight potential threats. 

 2.2 Previous related case study and lessons learned

Identify and discuss a case study from the literature, in a related area of the organization business, whereby a business continuity management system has failed and what lessons have been learned from it. 

2.3 Leadership

 Discuss how senior management should demonstrate leadership and commitment to Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), Outline the BCMS policy and the associated roles, responsibilities and authorities. 

2.4 Planning

Outline business continuity objectives and plans to achieve them and explain how such objectives can be measured. 

2.5 Support

Discuss the resources required for the establishment, implementation and maintenance of the BCMS.  Refer critically to the competences required and the various communication resources and protocols, both internal and external, that the organization must master in the event of an incident   

2.6 Operation

Discuss the operation and control of processes that need to be in place in case an incident Conduct a Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment and Business Continuity Strategy, and outline all associated resources and procedures, incident response structure, and warning and communication.  Focus your business continuity plans and recovery plans as specified below.

 Include in your 'Risk Assessment and Analysis a detailed risk evaluation by:

• Identification of critical business functions essential for continued service or production.
• Determination of events that can adversely affect the organization, the damage that such events can cause and the controls needed to prevent or minimize the effects of a loss Potential

Include in your 'Business Impact Analysis':

• Identification of the impacts that result from disruption that can affect the company and the techniques that can be used to quantify and qualify such impacts
• Prioritization of critical business functions

Include in your 'Business Continuity Plan:

A Recovery Strategy.  Determine and guide the selection of alternative recovery operating strategies to be used to maintain the critical functions

2 .7 Performance evaluation and improvement

Discuss now the above planning. Support and operation can be monitored. Measured undervalue and what internal audit plans should be in place for. Continuous improvement. Briefly outdone scenarios that can be used to assess the performance of the BCMS.

Discuss now you can test, approve, and implement the business continuity plan, and how to maintain it on an ongoing basis to meet the changing demands of the business. For example, discuss testing criteria and procedures and develop processes to keep the plan up - to - date.

2.8 Conclusions

Provide a list of up to 10 conclusion points from the work derived, as well as what lessons have been derived from developing a business continuity management system.

3. Referencing

Use the Harvard System. References must be properly indicated along the report to support discussions and the list of references must also be included at the end of the coursework. The following link provides support with referencing: http: / / / www. bradford. ac. uk / library / help / referencing The following format should be used:.

• Include all your references at the end of the coursework
• Avoid using websites like Wikipedia, about. Com, Wikihow, ehow. co. uk, Investopedia or similar sites as references. These are not appropriate academic references.
• Use only good quality references, such as recent articles from academic journals, books, industrial and government reports, specialized magazines, publications, etc.
• Download this guide to apply the Harvard Referencing System http: // www. bradford. ac. uk / library / media / library / documents / Harvard Guide Eng Inf 2014.pdf
• The library also provides online resources to help you with referencing: http: / / www. bradford. ac. uk / library / help / referential
• Plagiarism must be avoided at all times in line with faculty policy
• All text should be in your own words and include the references along the relevanti sentences and paragraphs.
• Avoid excessive use of quotations ". If you use quotations, you must explain in your own words what you understand from those quotations.

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