Awareness module on business continuity

This awareness module explains Business Continuity Management as an approach to save the business and save lives. When the chips are down, whether and how well the organization and its people survive serious incidents depends on their readiness, resources and resilience - three aspects that can be bolstered ahead of time as a kind of insurance policy. Business processes fall on a continuum from absolutely vital to inconsequential in terms of their value to the organization’s business objectives and the consequences of failure. Those at the upper end of the scale are called “critical" in order to focus attention on them and prioritize resources, but in truth the distinction between critical and non-critical is arbitrary. Furthermore, processes that are unnecessary most of the time may become critical under some circumstances (for example at month- or year-end), and in certain types of incident, coincident failures of several processes or activities which individually are not critica...