The document discusses business continuity management (BCM). It begins with examples of large financial losses companies can face during downtime. It then outlines how BCM originated from concepts like emergency planning, risk management, and crisis management. The document defines BCM as a holistic management process that identifies threats to an organization, the potential impacts on operations, and provides a framework for building resilience to effectively respond while protecting stakeholders. It notes BCM ensures critical processes continue during a crisis when some resources may be unavailable. Finally, it lists the main steps in the BCM life cycle as identifying risk assessment, analyzing business impact, creating a strategy, and measuring, testing, training and maintaining the system.

1. Business
Continuity
Management
Eng. Ahmed El Shiekh
SATECH CONSULTANT

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• BCM Origin
• BCM Definition
• BCM Life Cycle

5. Financial Disasters
• “ One hour downtime of Amazon.com would cost the
company 600,000 USD in revenue “
• “ If Cisco Systems were down for a day , the company
would lose 70,000,000 USD in revenue”
R Nolan “information Technology and the board of directors “ Harvard Business Center , Vol 83 , no 10 , pp 96,
October 2005

6. BCM Origin
Emergency
Planning
Risk
Management
BCM
Crisis
Management
*Crisis Management is the process by which a
business or other organization deals with a sudden
emergency situation
*Risk management is the process of identifying,
assessing and controlling threats to an
organization's capital and earnings
*Emergency Planning is the state in which normal
procedures are interrupted, and immediate
measures need to be taken to prevent that state
turning into a disaster.

7. BCM Definition
• A holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an
organization and the impacts to business operations that those threats,
if realized , might cause , and provides a framework for building
organizational resilience with the capability for an effective response
that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation , brand
and value- creating activities ( BCM institute, 2002 )

8. BCM Definition (Cont.)
• BCM is about ensuring continuity for critical business process during crisis.
• In case of crisis ( Terror attack , natural disaster , political unrests , IT
infrastructure failure , etc.) business often need to continue though some
critical resources might not fully available ( Staff, Office, Transport, Etc.)

9. BCM Life Cycle
Step 1 : Identify Risk Assessment
Step 2 : Analyze Business Impact
Analysis
Step 3 : Create Strategy
Step 4 : Measure , Test , Train &
Maintain

10. BCM Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IXEYVxTy4E

11. Thank You