13-15 August 2025- Gaborone; Botswana
Format: In- Person
TRAINING OVERVIEW
This 3 -day comprehensive programme designed to include all aspects of BCM required by managers and business continuity Practitioners responsible for the implementation, management, and maintenance of an effective business continuity management programme. The focus of this course is to ensure that the delegates can understand the theory behind BCM implementation and the practical application thereof.
The main reasons to attend is to obtain competency in;
¨ Outlining fundamental business continuity management principles and concepts.
¨ Explain and understand the link and relationship between risk and business continuity management in order to build organisational resilience.
¨ Utilise international standards and best practice.
¨ Explain the business continuity management lifecycle.
¨ Draft a business continuity management for your organisation.
The Main benefits of attending this Business Continuity are to:
- Keep employees and the community safe;
- Reduce the organisation’s vulnerability to business disruptions;
- Protect critical functions within the Organisation;
- Protect Organisation’s intellectual assets;
- Ensure continued service delivery during and after disruption has occurred;
- Preserve the ability to meet stakeholder expectations in a wide range of circumstances;
- Provide for an orderly and expedited recovery after a disruptive event; and
- Maintain or gain competitive advantage due to a swift and effective response.
Course Outline:
- The activities needed to establish and maintain a business continuity management system.
- Why and how to define the scope of a business continuity management system.
- How to develop an effective business continuity policy and governance.
- The difference between embracing and embedding business continuity.
- How to understand an organization’s culture and business continuity culture.
- How to improve an organization’s business continuity culture through different approaches.
- How to measure an organization’s business continuity culture.
- The benefits and outcomes of embracing business continuity management and the importance of ongoing monitoring and maintenance activities.
- The use of primary techniques of analysis, business impact analysis, and risk assessment.
- How to identify different types of business impact analysis and the activities that need to be undertaken to develop a business impact analysis.
- How to determine the maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD) and recovery time objective (RTO).
- About the product and service, the process, and the activity of business impact analysis.
- The content, approval, and use of a consolidated business impact analysis.
- Risk assessment in the context of the business continuity management system.
- The purpose of business continuity solutions design and how recovery strategies and solutions are developed.
- The strategies and solutions that can be used for different resources and RTO categories, and how unacceptable risks and single points of failure are mitigated.
- How to implement a solution, and establish a response structure.
- The factors affecting communications when responding to incidents and the relevant procedures to be applied.
- How business continuity plans are developed and managed as well as the purpose and characteristics of strategic, tactical, and operational business continuity plans.
- Why and how exercise programmes are developed as well as the different types of exercises.
- How to develop, conduct, and evaluate an exercise.
- How a business continuity management system should be maintained and reviewed
Who should attend?
- Risk Officers and Managers
- Municipal Managers
- Revenue Assurance
- Finances Managers
- Business Process
- Internal Audit
- Compliance
- Municipal Officials
- Accounts Managers
- Credit Control
- Corporate Governance
- Directors,
- Heads of Department
- Chief Executive Officers
- Mayors