Business Continuity Planning workshop

‘Business Continuity Planning’ is an intensive, hands-on, five-day workshop presented by the Institute for Business Continuity Training in Washington DC from October 20th to 24th, 2003. Using lectures, group work, and in-depth case studies, the workshop explores all aspects of business continuity planning, from project initiation right through to testing and maintaining the plan.

The workshop can be taken either for the full five days, or in two sessions of 2 1/2 days each.

Topics covered in the first session include:
- Establishing and managing a business continuity programme
- Generally accepted business continuity 'best practices'
- Risk assessment:
- Business impact analysis
- BCP strategy development
- Business resumption planning
- Plan templates and software tools:
- Evaluating commercial recovery services.

Topics covered in the second session include:
- The five phases of a business continuity plan
- Developing a crisis management plan
- Validating and maintaining business continuity plans
- Techniques for training and exercising business continuity teams
- Plan maintenance and evaluation
- Auditing the business continuity programme
- Case study and table top exercise of a complete business continuity plan.

Course participants receive working tools and templates for a variety of activities, such as conducting a business impact analysis. In addition, they receive a complete business continuity plan which can be used as a template for their own organisation.

The course is relevant to both new and experienced practitioners. Participants receive CEU credits for 40 hours of contact time.

www.ibct.co.uk

•Date: 12th September 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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