HB 293-2006: executive guide to business continuity management

The executive guide to business continuity management (BCM) provides senior management with an overview of the key concepts and processes that are required to implement and maintain an integrated, robust business continuity management program that allows individuals to: (i) better understand the uncertainty about the future; (ii) realise the potential for different types of disruption; and (iii) better plan for future management of those disruptions, and to put in place business improvement now to reduce the likelihood of significant disruption in the future. It considers BCM as an integral part of an organizations overall approach to effective risk management, and recommends it to be closely aligned to an organizations efforts in emergency management.

This document was prepared as a summary and a navigational tool for HB 292, A practitioners guide to business continuity management, and the structure is based on the framework of HB 221 Business continuity management.