The British Standard for Business Continuity Management (BCM) – BS25999 – allows your organisation to realise business improvements by applying good practice in BCM.
BS25999, instead of being another burden for Management, represents an opportunity to actively contribute to developing the organisations competitiveness.
According to BS 25999, BCM is a ‘business-owned, business-driven process that establishes a fit-for-purpose strategic and operational framework’.
Using BS 25999 can now embed BCM into your organisation to help enhance your organisation’s competitive position by:
- Using the Standard to support your Corporate Governance
Use BS 25999 to embed BCM good practice in your operational processes to support and enhance your corporate governance regime to meet internal and external audit
- Securing your Supply Chain
Assess your supply chain using the Standard to ensure it is resilient.
- Use your compliance to target and secure new customers
Use BS 25999 to promote your business’ resilience and differentiate yourself from your competition.
- Identify where BS 25999 is most valuable in your business
Select the parts of your business that can make the most valuable use of the Standard. You can use the Standard to deliver the maximum value to the business most cost effectively.
- Reduce your workload in managing uncertainty
A carefully considered, refined and current programme will allow you to respond most effectively to an incident that poses a threat to your business, your people and your systems, and to respond promptly to requests from Management, Customers, Regulators etc about your current preparedness.
SunGard’s BS 25999 Essentials Course
We recognise that understanding the Standard, grasping its implications, learning how to adopt it and manage it most effectively represents a challenge for any organisation, regardless of its size.
Getting the most from BS 25999, and implementing it cost effectively requires a thorough understanding of the Standard. It may differ significantly from how your organisation currently handles BCM – for example the circle of stakeholders affected by BCM will now typically be more senior, and cover a wider base than might have been considered before e.g. Shareholders, Customers, Suppliers, Regulators and so forth.
To help you understand BS 25999 and how it can be utilised by your organisation, SunGard offer a 1 day course that focuses on the policy, people and process issues involved in adopting and maintaining BS 25999.
The course will help you to understand:
- The methodology used in the creation of BS 25999
- The structure, contents, and interpretation of BS 25999
- The business benefits of adopting BS 25999
- The roadmap for adopting BS 25999
At the end of the training, you will have a good understading of the Standard, and will be able to articualte the benfits of adopting it in your own organisation to your Senior Management.
With an experience of Information Availability that is unrivalled, a significant investment in our continuum of services – over £67m in the last 4 years - and the expertise of our Professional Services team, there are few organisations who are better placed to help you achieve your BCM objectives under BS 25999 than SunGard Availability Services.
Furthermore, in our capacity as a representative member of Intellect http://www.intellectuk.org/, SunGard was invited to join the BSI committee panel which prepared the BS 25999 Standard for Business Continuity Management. As such, SunGard has played a significant role in the development of the new British Standard.