Business continuity training: a snapshot
Responses were received from many different countries, with the top three being the United States (39.6 percent), the UK (38.0 percent) and Australia (5.1 percent). Many respondents were experienced business continuity professionals, with 56 percent having more than five years experience in this area. 4 percent had more than 20 years experience; 24 percent had 10 – 19 years; 28 percent had 5-9 years and 34 percent had 1 – 4 years experience. The current qualifications and certifications of respondents can be broken down as follows: CBCP: 27.3 percent Participants were asked: “What is your general view of the current training opportunities that are available for business continuity professional development?” And were given the following options to make a choice of answer from: - Totally inadequate – you can never find an appropriate course that meets your needs Globally, there seems to be a consensus that current training provision is not as strong as it could be. 81.8 percent of respondents said that current training opportunities were either ‘somewhat inadequate’ (64.5 percent) or ‘totally inadequate’ (17.3 percent). Only 18.2 percent said that current training provision was ‘adequate’ with no respondents saying that current training provision was ‘excellent’. When broken down further, it appears that business continuity professionals in the UK are slightly happier with current training provision than their counterparts in the US. Almost a quarter of respondents from the latter said that training provision was ‘totally inadequate’. The breakdown for these countries was as follows: US: BUSINESS CONTINUITY TRAINING BUDGETS When it comes to the amount of money made available for training, the US seems to lead the UK by a long way. The average company budget for business continuity training in the US was $98,200 per annum; however in the UK it was only £9,700 (approximately $18,000). Of the respondents that had a budget to work to, most expected it to remain the same for the next year. Overall 54.4 percent thought their budget would remain the same (58.8 percent UK, 49.9 percent US), while 29.4 percent anticipated a budget increase (29.4 percent UK, 31.3 percent US). Only 15.7 percent believed that their budget would be cut (11.8 percent UK, 19.8 percent US). IDEAL TRAINING COURSES Many suggestions were submitted and a list of these grouped into themes can be found here. For the above training courses there seems to be a clear preference for them to be conducted in an ‘informal external venue’ (a hotel for example), but there were again significant differences between the UK and the US on preferred locations. The results were as follows: For the courses you identified how would you want this training to be delivered? All respondents US UK
•Date: 26th May 2006 • Region: UK/US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general |
