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Business continuity management (BCM) is the management process that keeps an organisation's most critical activities running during a disruption and restores them within agreed timeframes. It covers a business impact analysis, risk assessment, recovery strategies, documented plans and regular exercises. ISO 22301 is the international standard for a business continuity management system.
Business Continuity Management isn't optional — it's the difference between surviving disruption and shutting down.
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A proven 4-step process from assessment to certification.
We evaluate your current BCM maturity and identify critical gaps.
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Our experts build and embed your BCM framework into operations.
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Three related disciplines that are often confused. A resilient organisation needs all three, working together.
| Business continuity management | IT disaster recovery | Crisis management | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | Keeping critical business activities and services running | Restoring IT systems, applications and data | Leadership decisions during a serious, fast-moving event |
| Main question | How do we keep delivering our most important products and services? | How quickly can we bring systems and data back? | How do we protect people, reputation and the organisation as a whole? |
| Typical owner | Business leaders, supported by a BCM coordinator | IT or technology team | Executive crisis management team |
| Key document | Business continuity plan | IT disaster recovery plan | Crisis management and communications plan |
| Reference standard | ISO 22301 | ISO/IEC 27031 | ISO 22361 |
For financial institutions regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the MAS Guidelines on Business Continuity Management set clear supervisory expectations. Most other sectors are not legally required to have a BCM programme, but clients, tenders, insurers and regulators increasingly ask for evidence, and ISO 22301 certification is a common way to show it.
A business impact analysis identifies your critical activities, measures how the impact of a disruption grows over time, and sets how quickly each activity must be recovered. It also records the people, systems, suppliers and premises each activity depends on. The BIA is the foundation for every recovery strategy and plan.
The maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD) is the point after which the impact of an outage becomes unacceptable. The recovery time objective (RTO) is the target time to resume an activity, and it is always set shorter than the MTPD to leave a safety margin.
ISO 22301 requires plans to be exercised at planned intervals and after significant changes. Most organisations run at least one exercise a year, starting with tabletop walkthroughs and building up to full simulations.
A focused programme for a small or mid-sized organisation typically moves from gap assessment to tested plans over a few months. Multi-site or regulated groups take longer because of wider scope, more critical processes and formal certification audits.
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