A Brief Analysis of
Business Continuity in UK
By Rain Xia
2015-2-5
The Definition of Business Continuity
The Role of BC in Boosting Resilience in UK
The Official Practice of BC Promotion
The Inspiration of BC to Emergency Management in
Shanghai
THE DEFINITION OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY
•continue to operate
a set of planning and
preparatory activities
an organization 's
critical business functions
•be recovered to an
operational state
THE DEFINITION OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Business Continuity Management：Code of Practice
BS25999-1:2006
Specification for Business Continuity Management
BS25999-2:2007
Societal security-Business continuity
management systems-Requirements
ISO22301:2012
THE DEFINITION OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Compared to the regulations of China, ISO22301:2012 has 3 aspects:
all the stakeholders should be considered
all the data should be used in a fixed way
all the assessment will be required in detail
THE ROLE OF BC IN BOOSTING RESILIENCE IN UK
Top five types of impact of disruption for organisations with and without
BCM arrangements
From Weathering the storm -The 2013 Business Continuity Management
Survey by Ben Musgrave & Patrick Woodman, published in March 2013
THE ROLE OF BC IN BOOSTING RESILIENCE IN UK
The positive role of BC can be described as follows:
To refine all the requirements of resilience to draw
a specific plan for certain organization
To help and maintain the harmony and integrity of
resilience
 To make up the loss that can not be insured in a
general way
THE ROLE OF BC IN BOOSTING RESILIENCE IN UK
Figure % of managers experiencing significant organisational impact as a
result of disruption.
From Weathering the storm -The 2013 Business Continuity Management
Survey by Ben Musgrave & Patrick Woodman, published in March 2013
THE OFFICIAL PRACTICE OF BC PROMOTION
Promote on line
THE OFFICIAL PRACTICE OF BC PROMOTION
Promote on line
THE OFFICIAL PRACTICE OF BC PROMOTION
Promote on foot
To gain every opportunity to communicate with
organizations
To focus on such risks that certain organizations
might take
To fix attention on the organizations which produce
the public service or products
To promote in an acceptable way
THE OFFICIAL PRACTICE OF BC PROMOTION
Effect of promotion
When public sector rates of BCM are compared with large private
sector organisations, the contrast is less pronounced, with 70 per
cent of large private sector companies adopting BCM.
THE OFFICIAL PRACTICE OF BC PROMOTION
Effect of promotion
As Figure shows, BCM arrangements vary depending on size of
organisations.Large organisations are more likely to have BCM than
either their medium, small or micro counterparts.
THE INSPIRATION OF BC TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
IN SHANGHAI
To update the concept
Many Plans
District-oriented
→
One Plan
→ Organization-oriented
THE INSPIRATION OF BC TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
IN SHANGHAI
To support and improve
To establish or integrate one department
dealing with BC promotion
To draw up a set of regulations on BC
To set a fiscal budget for BC promotion
THE INSPIRATION OF BC TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
IN SHANGHAI
To innovate the mechanisms
Government-leading
→
NGO-participating
Vertical Structure
→
Horizontal Structure
Professional Instruction
→
Business Promotion
THE INSPIRATION OF BC TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
IN SHANGHAI
To advertise BC in various ways
Professional Institutes
Universities and Colleges
Forums and Sessions
website construction
THE INSPIRATION OF BC TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
IN SHANGHAI
To evaluate and assess concretely
assessment and evaluation
draw up the BC plan
carry out the BC plan
before disasters
after disasters
appraisers and supervisors
government
internal
stakeholders'
supervision
assessment
audit
data
subjects of assessment
documents
procedure
A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY IN UK
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