Business Continuity Manager (BCM®)
Business Continuity Management (BCM®) is vital in today's ever-changing business landscape due,in part, to the growing complexity of technology and supply chains. Developing a BCM strategy is crucial to an organization's survival as it helps manage risks and maintain critical operations during disruptions. However, there's often confusion across management levels regarding the processes, responsibilities, best practices, and oversight in BCM.
Business Continuity Manager (BCM®)
Evaluating BCMS performance and fostering continuous improvement can be challenging. To support effective BCM implementation, the IERP® offers the leading BCM® (Business Continuity Manager) certification program.
This program is ideal for professionals looking to enhance their BCM skills and take on leadership roles within their units, divisions, or organizations. It builds upon fundamental BCM principles covered in the BCL® (Business Continuity Leader) program. Enroll now to protect your stakeholders, safeguard assets, and ensure long-term resilience and financial viability in today’s unpredictable business environment.
Business Continuity Manager (BCM®)
Business Continuity Management (BCM®)is vital in today’s ever-changing business landscape due,in part, to the growing complexity of technology and supply chains. Developing a BCM strategy is crucial to an organization’s survival as it helps manage risks and maintain critical operations during disruptions. However, there’s often confusion across management levels regarding the processes, responsibilities, best practices, and oversight in BCM.
Evaluating BCMS performance and fostering continuous improvement can be challenging. To support effective BCM implementation, the IERP® offers the leading BCM® (Business Continuity Manager) certification program.
This program is ideal for professionals looking to enhance their BCM skills and take on leadership roles within their units, divisions, or organizations. It builds upon fundamental BCM principles covered in the BCL® (Business Continuity Leader) program. Enroll now to protect your stakeholders, safeguard assets, and ensure long-term resilience and financial viability in today’s unpredictable business environment.
In person, virtual training
3 modules over 3 Days
24 Hours
Certification Modules
To become fully certified, participants will have 3 years to complete all training modules. Registration for individual training modules is also available.
- Emergency Preparedness, Response, BC Awareness and training
- BCMS Performance, Metrics and Audits, Disaster Recovery Plans and Lean Methodologies
- Crisis Management
Emergency Preparedness, Response, BC Awareness and training (30 October 2023)
- Fundamental to a successful business continuity management system that makes the organisation resilient to disaster is the application of the elements of emergency management. The lack of a coordinated response can result in regulatory and civil liability to the organization and can also result in the loss of customers and reputational damage.
- The design of this module is geared towards preparing and training organisations for emergencies and the hazards to be aware of when an emergency occurs. Participants will be guided on best practice emergency management frameworks and processes, practical hazard identification and mitigation measures as well as components of the preparedness lifecycle. The syllabus includes instructions on how to produce the emergency response program and plan and the Emergency response team’s roles and responsibilities. Critical to the co-ordination of all of this is the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) which participants will study as well as the critical role of communications. The content also includes guidance on designing, developing, and delivering the relevant awareness and training programs to ensure buy in and the overall success of the program.
BCMS Performance, Metrics and Audits, Disaster Recovery Plans and Lean Methodologies (1 November 2023)
- When an event threatens the integrity of business operations, you have a crisis on your hands. Every organization is vulnerable to crises. A crisis communications plan is an important component of any disaster plan. It can act as a guide to help you quickly contain the crisis and recover from its impact. The days of playing ostrich – burying you head in the sand and hoping the problem goes away – are gone. You can try, but your stakeholders will not be understanding or forgiving. If you don’t prepare, you will incur more damage. Experience demonstrates that organizational leadership often does not understand that in the absence of adequate internal and external communications, operational response will break down. Stakeholders will not know what is happening and quickly become confused, angry, and negatively reactive; the organization will be perceived as inept, at best, and criminally negligent, at worst. The length of time required to bring full resolution to the issue will be extended, often dramatically, and the impact to the financial and reputational bottom line will be more severe.
- This program takes BCM Professionals through the fundamental concepts on how to put together a proper plan, the agencies you need to work with in these situations and how you should communicate to the general public. It also demonstrates how the principles covered during the program will guide them in not just surviving the onslaught of any crisis, but emerging after the crisis with a stronger business and wiser team.
Crisis Management (31 October 2023)
- The purpose of a BCM audit is to identify any inconsistencies in BCM processes which might inhibit the BCMS from achieving its intended outcomes. It helps ensure not only the effectiveness of the plan but whether the plan is up-to-date and capable of dealing with all threats and opportunities. Ensuring your organisation can recover effectively from any disaster is a basic business requirement. The construct of this program grounds participants in all of the components, scope, elements, types and principles of BCM audits. The content also covers the fundamentals of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) as distinct from BCM and guides participants through the full DRP process including planning, mapping business functions to infrastructure, all the way through to backups and data recovery options and how to prepare the DRP.
- In addition to providing guidance on BCMS performance evaluation and metrics, the design of the program also provides guidance on continuous improvement and Lean methodologies as processes and methodologies to ensure the sustainability of the various programs and to promote improvement initiatives and innovation within the BCMS. Continuous improvement is the vehicle that will help us to identify tangible improvements. The improvements could lead to enhanced business performance through cost reduction, productivity and process efficiency.
Eligibility Criteria
- A degree holder (or its equivalent, and above) with at least 3 years relevant working experience OR with BCL® qualification
- A non-degree holder with at least 10 years relevant working experience OR with BCL® qualification
Who Should Get Certified
- Internal Audit and Assurance professionals
- C-Level executives and head of departments
- Risk management professionals
- Non-risk management professionals working in Corporate planning/strategy, Governance, Compliance, Operations, Investment, Treasury, Regulators and other related areas.
Assessment
- Multiple choice examination
- Attendance and participation in class
- Case study
Proven Benefits Of Being BCM® Certified
Recognition as a certified and qualified business continuity manager.
Include yourself into a new network of like-minded risk professionals.
Improve career opportunity – pay boost, promotion & job portability.
Acquire the ability to make informed decisions.
Enhance your professional credibility within your own network.
Recognition as a certified and qualified business continuity manager.
Include yourself into a new network of like-minded risk professionals.
Improve career opportunity – pay boost, promotion & job portability.
Acquire the ability to make informed decisions.