On the home straight now as we hit day 4 of Business Continuity Awareness Week.

5 webinars for you today on the main BCAW Channel with 4 on the Canadian Channel – full details below.  Competition within the BC24 game increases as over 450 teams have now registered and played. Have you downloaded the wide range of papers and reports to read yet? There is a wealth of powerful, persuasive information all available free of charge.

Activities and resources for Thursday 24th March include:

THURSDAY’S WEBCASTS

 

A total of 9 Webcasts will be broadcast live on Thursday:

John DiMaria, Certified Six Sigma Black Belt; HISP, MHISP, Director of Professional Services, President of the HISPI

Integrating your ISO27001 with your Business Continuity process

Rudy ShouShany, Sr. BC Consultant, B.C.C. Management

IT Disaster Recovery within Business Continuity Management

Henry Ee, FBCI, Director, BCP Asia

Overview of Singapore BCM National Standard SS540:2008

Roberta Witty and John Morency, Gartner Compliance, Risk and Leadership

Survey of the BCM Consultancy Market

Phil Lambert, President, Continuity Leadership

How to Conduct Powerful Exercises ……….. Every Time

 

To register for, and join in these webcasts, please go to BCAW Webcasts where you can also view the full schedule for Friday.

If you can’t join these webcasts live, don’t worry as they will be available to view when you have a moment.

Monday’s, Tuesday’s & Wednesday’s webcasts can be found at BCAW Webcasts

A further schedule of webcasts by 5 major Canadian partners in Business Continuity and Emergency Management who have teamed up to lead BCAW in Canada can be found at BCAW Canada Webcasts

Webcasts for Thursday are:

Willie Wong, IBM Canada – organised by DRIE

Risk Management: Personal Cyber Risks – online risks, awareness and simple actions to protect yourself

John Theo – DRIE Toronto

Exercising: it’s not just your body that needs regular exercise!

Catherine Tucci, Marsh Canada – organised by DRIE

Are you prepared? 10 things you can do now to prepare for any emergency, crisis or disaster

Paul Sullivan, Agility Recovery Solutions

10 Steps to Disaster Preparedness

BC24 – AN ONLINE INTERACTIVE GAME

 

What do the following have in common – Bark Bark Woof; Popcorn; The Chicken Littles; Trial and Error; Disaster Masters, Oil Toil and Zero Hour? They are all Teams which have entered the BCAW online interactive game. They have worked through the challenges within the game facing flood and supply chain failure and emerged the other side – some more successfully than others. By Wednesday afternoon 450+ Teams had participated but the leader board remains virtually unchanged with DEEWR SEC1 still holding on to that top spot.

Don’t forget to use an alias or opt out of the leader board if you don’t wish to put your team in the public arena.

Test your Incident Management skills by going to BC24 - the game

BC24 is sponsored by PwC, ClearView and Bureau Veritas.

THURSDAY’S FEATURED RESOURCE

 

Business Interruption Insurance & BCM

How comfortable are you with explaining how BCM could help your company’s insurance purchasing decisions? 

A new guide, developed by a BCI Partnership working group, is now available to help practitioners understand the language and issues of business interruption insurance and where BCM fits.  In short they are highly complementary to each other: insurance can provide cash flow, while BCM is the only way to protect brand and customers.

This new report and a wide range of other resources are available to download from the BCAW website at www.bcaw2011.com 

Halfway through Business Continuity Awareness Week and level of activity continues apace. In the UK we’ve received coverage in the influential Financial Times and Alan Elwood from the Northern Ireland Forum has appeared on Belfast local radio to talk about business continuity. Please share your local successes via the BCAW LinkedIn Group so that Lee Glendon, who pulls the week together here in Central Office can register our combined success.

Activities and resources for Wednesday 23rd March include:

BC24 – AN ONLINE INTERACTIVE GAME

 

Although 360+ teams have now registered and played, there is no change in the leader board since yesterday! It’s not too late to put a team of 6 together and rise to the challenge of overcoming a flood and supply chain disruption. 717 points is the target to beat.

Don’t forget to use an alias or opt out of the leader board if you don’t wish to put your team in the public arena.

Test your Incident Management skills by going to BC24 - the game

BC24 is sponsored by PwC, ClearView and Bureau Veritas.

WEDNESDAY’S FEATURED RESOURCE

 

Managing Threats in a Dangerous World

The 2011 Business Continuity Management Survey

 

Results from the annual survey carried out by the Chartered Management Institute – sponsored by the Cabinet Office, AON, the BSI and the BCI.

This eagerly awaited report looks at trends in BCM within the UK.

This brand new report and a wide range of other resources are available to download from the BCAW website at www.bcaw2011.com 

 

WEDNESDAY’S WEBCASTS

 

A total of 8 Webcasts will be broadcast live on Wednesday:

Danny Tan, LRQA

SS540 – A Market Differentiator – Maintaining a Resilient Supply Chain

William McLeod, Deloitte, Director, Resilience

Simulations & Wargaming

Luc Albrecht MBCI, Swift

Successful Resilience Project for Financial Industry

Derek Taylor, Continuity SA

Providing Transparent Corporate Governance & Risk Oversight

Phil Lambert, President, Continuity Leadership

Is Continuity worth it? ROI tells the story

 

Marie-Hélène Primeau MBCI, President, Premier Continuum

Continuity Management vs Risk Management

Dickenson Y. Africa, CPA, CISA, MBA, CBCLA, BC Manager, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Crisis Mgmt

Conducting Business Continuity Audits

To register for, and join in these webcasts, please go to BCAW Webcasts where you can also view the full schedule for the week ahead.

If you can’t join these webcasts live, don’t worry as they will be available to view when you have a moment.

Monday’s & Tuesday’s webcasts can be found at BCAW Webcasts

Additionally there is a schedule of webcasts which has been put together by 5 major Canadian partners in Business Continuity and Emergency Management who have teamed up to lead BCAW in Canada: the Disaster Recovery Information Exchange, the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness, the Business Continuity Institute Canada, the Canadian Red Cross and the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada.

Their webcast for Wednesday is:

Retra Setrak, DRI Canada

Become the Five-Headed Beast of Business Continuity Management

To access this webcast and to view the schedule of webcasts for the rest of the week go to:

BCAW Canada Webcasts

BC Management will be exhibiting at the Disaster Recovery Journal Spring World Conference.  If you'll be there be sure to stop by and say hi at our booth.

Time: Sunday, March 27 at 5:00pm - March 30 at 12:00pm
Location: Orlando, FL

BC Management will have a booth at the DRJ Spring World Conference. Come by our booth and learn how we can assist you with hiring new personnel, benchmarking your program and/or compensation with our BCM research data or assist with your career planning in business continuity. We're looking forward to seeing everyone there. More details at http://www.drj.com/springworld/conference/overview.html.

Welcome to Day Two of the 10th annual Business Continuity Awareness Week. There is a lot of activity for you to join in with today from seminars to forum meetings to webcasts to an interactive game. Alternatively, you might prefer to quietly take in one of the many downloadable research reports or case studies available. Don’t forget these events and resources are all invaluable assets when it comes to recording hours for your Continuing Professional Development programme – access your CPD account via the members’ section of the main BCI website.

Activities and resources for Tuesday 22nd March include:

TODAY’S FEATURED RESOURCE

 

“Engaging and Sustaining the Interest of the Board in BCM”. Key findings from a BCI survey carried out at the end of 2010 which attracted 600+ responses giving great insights into this perennially difficult challenge.

NB a webcast looking at the key findings of this research will also be broadcast on Tuesday.

A wide range of resources are available to download from the BCAW website at www.bcaw2011.com 

BC24 – AN ONLINE INTERACTIVE GAME

 

Based on a flooding incident as well as a supply chain failure, this game allows 6 players to take the following key roles:

BCM Manager; PR Manager; HR Director; IT Director; Procurement Manager; and Senior Director.

The players will react to news and events as they occur, making the best decisions they can based on the facts available.

At the time of writing the leading team, DEEWR SEC1 is closely followed by newcomers DHL/UK/Paul Cushion with The Office in third place – although these results will inevitably have changed by the time you read this bulletin.

Approaching 300 teams have registered and are playing by Monday lunchtime and we expect this number to grow over the next few days.

Don’t forget to use an alias or opt out of the leader board if you don’t wish to put your team in the public arena.

Test your Incident Management skills by going to BC24 - the game

BC24 is sponsored by PwC, ClearView and Bureau Veritas.

LOCAL EVENTS AND MEETINGS

 

Local Events for Tuesday 22nd March are listed below but don’t forget to check what’s happening in your region for the rest of this week by going to www.bcaw2011.com. Congratulations to the Australasian Chapter who have organised a superb range of meetings and seminars.

BC Management's December Newsletter Highlights the Following:

·         Current BCM Job Openings

·         BC Management's 9th Annual BCM Study Closing on December 15, 2010 - study has been live since March 2010.

·         Information on BCM Customized Research to Support Your Program Management Decisions.

·         BC Management Announces a New Office in Shanghai!

·         Recovery Forecasts - Hiring in the Business Continuity Profession.

·         Cheyene Haase was Awarded an Honorary MBCI at the BCI Annual Gala Dinner.

·         Avalution Offering Training Course in San Diego, CA.

·         Public-Private Partnerships for Resilience?

·         DRJ Announces Agenda for Spring World 2011.

·         Continuity Insights Releases their Conference Program.

·         DRI International becomes more Global.

·         Continuity Insights as a LinkedIn Group.

·         Register for IAEM On-Demand Webcasts.

·         Norwich University Offering a Free Risk Management Webinar.

 

Newsletter available at http://www.bcmanagement.com/newsletters.html.