Welcome to BC Management's eNewsletter for candidates. Inside this edition you will find tips on how to be happy at work, better understand what professionals are earning in the business continuity profession, stay informed on valuable research to help support your program management decisions and view our current BC/DR job listings. View BC Management's October Candidate eNewsletter. Add Comment Listen to a BCI Webcast - Assessing Your BCM Program - What are the most "mature" programs doing?10/28/2012 BCI Webcast - Assessing Your BCM Program - What are the most "mature" programs doing? Cheyene Marling, Hon MBCI of BC Management recently presented in a BCI Webcast to support FEMA's National Preparedness Month. Here's the link to the video that runs just under 45 minutes. Synopsis: More than ever business continuity professionals want to know how the most mature programs are approaching business continuity planning. What are these organizations doing different from the rest? How are they achieving the visibility within the organization? How are they obtaining the necessary executive support? This session will assess the differentiating factors between the “Very Immature” programs and the “Very Mature” programs. Cheyene Haase, a Continuity Insights editorial advisory board member and president of BC Management, discusses the state of the job market for business continuity professionals, and the factors that are driving higher salaries and promotions, such as certification and technical skills. http://e-ditionsbyfry.com/Olive/ODE/CIN/Default.aspx?href=CIN%2F2011%2F10%2F01&pageno=10&view=document?EmailAddrr=CHAASE@BCMANAGEMENT.COM 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 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. Welcome to Day One of the 10th annual Business Continuity Awareness Week. There is a packed programme for you to share and we hope you will enjoy being part of this global event. Activities for today, Monday 21st March, include: WEBCASTS 6 Webcasts will be broadcast live today: Cheyene Haase (HON) MBCI, BC Management, Inc. Trends in Business Continuity Program Management Maturity Margaret Millet MBCI, Director Global Continuity, eBay, Inc. How do I incorporate BC management into Vendor management? Shannon Creighton MBCI, Vice President, BCI Canadian Chapter SGI BCP Lessons Learned Lorraine King, Product Marketing Manager, BSI ISO 22301 – the transition Frank Leonetti MBCI, Oracle Creating Op Resilience in the Brave new Virtualized & Cloud World Lyndon Bird FBCI, Technical Director, BCI; Lee Glendon CBCI, Head of Campaigns, BCI Why do Business Continuity Management? 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 today, don’t worry as they will be available to view when you have a moment. Here's the recorded presentation Cheyene Haase recently gave on The Differentiating Factors between "Very Immature" and "Mature" Programs.... just in case you missed it the first time. Continuity Insights hosted the webinar. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/984908569 Check out these upcoming events that BC Management President, Cheyene Haase, will be attending and presenting at! April 10 - 14, 2010 - 2010 SunGard Software International User Group Conference in Orlando, FL. Cheyene Haase will be presenting at this conference on how to Enhance Your Program through Trend Analysis and Research Data. April 12 - 14, 2010 - 8th Annual Continuity Insights Management Conference in New Orleans, LA. Cheyene Haase will be presenting at this conference on ROI and Measuring the Effectiveness of your BCM Program - An assessment from research data. To receive instant notifications when new posts are made to this blog, you can select the RSS Feed to the right. The feed can be sent to your Outlook email, Blogline, My Yahoo!, or iGoogle homepage. |  Stay Informed! Subscribe to the BCM Blog Today.Welcome!Sign up to receive BCM Blog updates via the RSS Feed link above. 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