BCM, or business continuity management, involves identifying risks, analyzing the impact of disruptions on business processes, and developing recovery strategies and plans. It is important for organizations because 2 out of 5 enterprises that experience a disaster go out of business within 5 years. BCM ensures business viability during crisis situations like fires, floods, or technology failures. The most important aspects of effective BCM are planning, training employees, and regularly testing plans. While technology plays a role, BCM is not primarily about IT - it requires support from top management and focuses on protecting critical business processes.

1. Milan Petrásek
31st January 2013

2. Overview
 What
 Why
 How
 Summary

3. What is BCM? I.
There are a plenty of definiton
ISO 22301

4. Intro – What is BCM? II.
And there are a plenty of
frameworks, standards etc.
Big Four scenario
British standard BS25999

5. What really BCM is?
Identification of
Risks
Business
Impact Analysis
Recovery
Strategy
Recovery Plan
Development
Testing &
Exercising

6. Why? I.
2 out of 5 enterprises that
experience a disaster, go out
of business within 5 years.
Business continuity plans and
disaster recovery services ensure
continuing viability.

7. Why? II.
 One of Top IT Priorities for 2010/2011 (by
Forrester)
 Probability of crisis situations isn‘t zero.
 Crisis situations:
 „Accident-like“ – for example fire
 Natural disaster - floods, storm
 Failure of buildings technology - energy supply
 And many more
 In some businesses BCM is mandatory (Czech
law – 240/2000 Sb – crisis management)

8. Why? III.
 To protect critical business processes from the
effects of major failures or disaster
 To counteract interruptions to business
activities
 Information is the key. And information still
grow up …
 Without information and information
technology, we won't be able to have good
decisions

9. How
To survive a disaster you need:
 a plan to follow
 well trained people
 vital data
 a place to go

10. Summary
 BCM isn't primarily about ICT
 BCM needs support from top management (CEO,
COO, Board)
 The most important part of BCM are
 Planning
 Training
 Testing
 Technology is only a tool.

11. Sources
 Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity
 Forrester Research – Survey 2010
http://www.forrester.com
 Gartner
http://www.gartner.com/id=340749
 CIO
http://www.cio.com/article/40287/Business_Continuity_and_Disaster_Recovery_Planning
_Definition_and_Solutions

12. Questions
Thank you