Business Continuity Management

• • 1. Overview of Business Continuity Management (BCM)
  • 2. BCM framework
  • 3. BCM strategy and policy
  • 4. BCM and risk management
  • 5. Overview of the Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
  • 6. Conducting a BIA
  • 7. BC plan development
  • 8. Linkages to other systems
  • 9. IT disaster recovery
  • 10. Testing BCM
  • 11. Implementing BCM
  • 12. System improvement
  • 13. Framework evaluation

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

• OUA-PSU-GCE-2021

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Business Continuity Management is the holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organisation and the likely impacts to business operations that may be caused if those threats materialise. This subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of Business Continuity Management. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of Business Continuity Management and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards. This subject will provide you with the knowledge and skills to translate theoretical concepts in Business Continuity Management to tangible outputs for industry. Business Continuity Management provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with other subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

• Online Multiple-Choice Quiz (15%)
• Assignment (50%)
• Online Multiple-Choice Quiz (15%)
• Report (20%)

Current study term: 11 Jul 21 to 17 Oct 21