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page1 Newsletter Business Continuity Awareness
Issue # 1-2017 For
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Content 1. Message from Business Continuity Management
Inaugural Edition
2. What is Business Continuity?
Keeping calm and carrying on
3. What is Business Continuity Management?
A holistic management process
4. What do we use BC for?
Absorb, respond to and recover from disruptions
5. Are BC and organizational resilience the same thing?
Business Continuity Management Framework.
6. Important words
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Message from Business Continuity Dear Colleagues,
Management Continuing on our journey of BCM Awareness, we are pleased to release the first editi
the Alinma Business Continuity Awareness Newsletter.
In this issue, we will discuss on the different types of plans that are evolved after the in
stages of Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment & BC Recovery Strategies
Alinma Bank has started this journey to enhance its BCM
capabilities through a structured Awareness program which will be mix of email messa
newsletters, class room training sessions and e-LMS.
Every employee plays role in BCM, and hence your cooperation
and active participation is very important.
Kindly send in your comments and suggestions for improving
this newsletter to us at <email id>.
page2 What is Business Continuity? Business Continuity is often described as ‘just common
sense’. It is about taking responsibility for your business and
enabling it to stay on course whatever storms it is forced to
withstand. It is about “keeping calm and carrying on”!
BC is about building and improving resilience in your
business; it’s about identifying your key products and
services and the most urgent activities that underpin them
and then, once that ‘analysis’ is complete, it is about
devising plans and strategies that will enable you to continue
your business operations and enable you to recover quickly
and effectively from any type disruption whatever its size or
cause. It gives you a solid framework to lean on in times of
crisis and provides stability and security. In fact, embedding
BC into your business is proven to bring business benefits.
What is Business Continuity Business Continuity Management (BCM) is defined as a
Management? holistic management process that identifies potential
threats to an organization and the impacts to business
operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and
which provides a framework for building organizational
resilience with the capability of an effective response that
safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders,
reputation, brand and value-creating activities.
(Source: ISO 22301:2012)
page3 Are Business Continuity and Business Continuity is the discipline that has organizational resilience as its objective. T
organizational continue to be attempts to
resilience the same thing? codify organizational resilience as both a discipline and management system in its own
right but moving from the
academic research on resilience to organizational practice is still very much work in
progress. We do not currently see
much distinction between Business Continuity as set out in the Good Practice Guidelin
and efforts to codify
organizational resilience. Resilient organizations are forward thinking and able to adap
changing circumstances which
may have damaging effects on the organization’s ability to survive. These include such
things as changes to the market in
which the organization operates, competitors, legislation, technology etc., as well as
incidents that disrupt the
organization’s ability to deliver its products and services. Business Continuity helps an
organization to build and improve
resilience and provides the capability for an effective response to threatening events.
such, BC is one of the key
disciplines required in any organization who aims to be a resilient organization.
The first priority in the case of a disruptive event is the immediate and ongoing safety
customers and staff.
Following this, ensuring that our critical services are operating when service delivery is
disrupted, and that normal
business is resumed as quickly as possible, is guided by the Business Continuity
Management Framework.
Follow these awareness articles for further information
Contact <> in case of an incident.
page4 Important Words 1. Activity
Process or set of processes undertaken by an organization
(or on its behalf) that produces or supports one or more
products and services
2. Audit
Systematic, independent and documented process for
obtaining audit evidence and evaluating it objectively to
determine the extent to which the audit criteria are fulfilled
3. Business Continuity
Capability of the organization to continue delivery at
acceptable predefined levels following disruptive incident
4. Business Continuity Management
Holistic management process that identifies potential threats
to an organization and the impacts to business operations
those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a
framework for building organizational resilience with the
capability of an effective response that safeguards the
interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities
5. Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)
Part of the overall management system that establishes,
implements, operates, monitors, reviews, maintains and
improves business continuity
