Proud sponsor of CMI's Business Continuity Management (BCM) Survey 2013
Now available to download
BSI is once again proud to sponsor the UK’s most widely used report on business continuity. Now available to download, the annual CMI Business Continuity Management Survey provides valuable insight into attitudes towards business continuity year on year.
The report focuses on how prepared organizations were for unexpected disruptions to their day-to-day operations over the past year. The 2013 report shows encouraging signs overall with an increase in the number of firms with business continuity plans in place for the third year running.
“Over the past few years, Britain’s businesses have experienced many unexpected incidents and I am sure 2013 will be no exception. So it is very positive news that more and more organizations are addressing the issue of business continuity, with many using the new international standard for Business Continuity Management (ISO 22301) as their framework.
There remains however an alarming percentage which still have no contingency plans in place. The reality is that Business Continuity Management is not a complicated science but a critical part of best practice management and business excellence.”
Shirley Bailey-Wood, Director of Publishing at BSI
Key highlights
Sources of disruption
Aside from snow (77%), the other most experienced causes of disruption during 2012 were: loss of people due to illness (42%), loss of IT (40%) and loss of telecommunications (27%).
BCM adoption on the rise
63% of respondents report that their organization has BCM arrangements in place – up from 61% in 2012, 58% in 2011 and 49% in 2010.
Less disruption and return on investment
In the last 12 months, 87% of managers whose organizations activated their BCM arrangements agreed that it effectively reduced disruption and 81% said that the benefits outweighed the cost.
Reasons for BCM
Corporate governance remains the biggest external driver of BCM with 52% of managers saying it was a catalyst for their organization to put plans into place. This is closely followed by direct experience of an emergency/crisis (42%) and customer demands (38%).
BCM for SMEs
In 2013, small organizations overtook medium organizations in terms of the overall percentage using BCM.
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BSI can help you acquire the confidence you need
Business continuity contributes to the development of a more resilient society. Organizations without an effective BCMS in place risk significant vulnerability and the resulting impact on their employees, customers and suppliers. Disruptions to your business can result in data risk, revenue loss, failure to deliver services as normal or in extreme cases, failure to deliver at all. That’s why organizations need strong business continuity planning.
BSI has developed a range of business continuity management (BCM) standards, self-assessment tools, books, conferences and training sessions to help your business reduce the chance and impact of disruption should an incident occur. Many organizations consider themselves prepared for interruptions, only to discover shortcomings at the last minute.
Successful businesses expect the unexpected and plan for it
Business continuity management encourages a proactive and systematic approach to ensure that you are best prepared. BSI has published the latest international requirements standard for business continuity management systems – BS ISO 22301.
This standard enables your organization to prepare for disruptive incidents that might otherwise prevent it from achieving key objectives.
BS ISO 22301 can be used to assess an organization’s ability to meet its own continuity needs and obligations and establish a business continuity management policy that provides a framework for implementing effective business continuity arrangements.
We recently published BS ISO 22313 which provides a more intuitive framework to those pursuing business continuity best practice. It is a key milestone to support the uptake and implementation of effective BCM worldwide.
Why is effective business continuity essential?
In an increasingly competitive market, organizations need to go to greater lengths to survive. After all where are they if they can’t continue to produce their products and services at a normal pace? Successful business continuity arrangements provide the solution to these problems by minimizing disruption and increasing the speed of recovery.
By adopting a standard approach to BCM as set out in BS ISO 22301, organizations can offer their customers and clients greater assurance that they will be capable of maintaining continuity of operations if they suffer disruptive incidents. BS ISO 22301 specifies the requirements to:
Identify crucial risk factors already affecting your organization
Understand your organization’s needs and obligations
Establish, implement and maintain your BCMS
Measure your organization’s overall capability to manage disruptive incidents
Guarantee conformity with stated business continuity policy
If disruption is not an option for your business, implementing BS ISO 22301 is the first step towards a best practice approach. The standard has been specifically designed to ensure continued business functionality during the most unexpected circumstances.
Keep up with best practice with the BCMS Transition Course. Helping you move from BS 25999 to ISO 22301, find out the necessary changes you need to make to maintain business continuity within your organization.
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You may also be interested in:
Corporate social responsibility and governance
Integrated management systems (IMS)
Project management
Knowledge management
Quality management
Risk management
Supply chain management & risk
For help transferring over to the new BS ISO 22301 from BS 25999:2, download your free transition guide today! This document has been specifically designed to ease the implementation of the latest international requirements standard.
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Keep up with international best practice and make the transition from BS 25999 to ISO 22301 with BSI’s Business Continuity Course.
Following the strong international interest in the original British Standard BS 25999-2, BSI published BS ISO 22301 – the latest international requirements standard for business continuity management systems. This standard gives your organization access to the requirements of a BCMS that will enable your organization to prepare for disruptive incidents that might otherwise prevent it from achieving its objectives.
BS ISO 22301 can be used to assess an organization’s ability to meet its own continuity needs and obligations and establish a business continuity management policy that provides a framework for implementing effective business continuity arrangements.
In common with other management systems’ standards, BS ISO 22301 is based on the ‘Plan-Do-Check-Act’ model that seeks to improve continually the effectiveness of the organization through proficient planning, implementation, supervision, review and maintenance.
We also recently published BS ISO 22313 which acts as the guidance document for BS ISO 22301. Together, these BCM standards seek to support organizations in their on-going challenge to improve business resilience in the face of unforeseen circumstances.
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Want to learn how to make move from BS 25999-2 to BS ISO 22301?
Guidance on moving from BS 25999-2 to ISO 22301
You can also keep up with best practice with the BCMS Transition Course. Helping you move from BS 25999 to ISO 22301, find out the necessary changes you need to make to maintain business continuity within your organization.
What exactly is BS 25999?
BS 25999 is made up of two parts
Part 1, the Code of Practice, provides BCM best practice recommendations to help you put the requirements for BCMS in to place in your organization.
BS 25999-1:2006
Business continuity management. Code of practice
Part 2, the Specification, gives you the requirements for a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).
BS 25999-1:2006
Business continuity management. Code of practice
BS 25999-2:2007
Business continuity management. Specification
BS ISO/IEC 27031:2011
Information technology. Security techniques. Guidelines for information and communication technology readiness for business continuity
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