The predecessor of ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management (Business Continuity Management, referred to as: BCM)

What is "BCM (Business Continuity Management)"?

“B”——Business, valuable activities

“C”——Continuity, the guarantee of continuous activity

“M”——Management, a method to provide guarantee

The ISO 22301 management system framework can help enterprises formulate a set of integrated management process plans, enable enterprises to identify and analyze potential disasters, help them determine the threats to enterprise operations caused by possible shocks, and provide an effective management mechanism to Stop or neutralize these threats and reduce losses to your business from disaster events. Compared with BS 25559, ISO 22301 has a higher degree of international recognition. It emphasizes setting goals, monitoring performance and indicators, setting clearer expectations for enterprise management, and placing higher requirements on the formulation of business continuity plans. .

Business continuity management includes the management of the recovery and continuity of business activities in the face of disasters, as well as the management of the entire program such as training, drills and reviews to ensure business continuity.

The core of the BCM management system is the BS25599 standard, which is applicable to all types of organizations. It is a holistic management process. The goal of this process is to identify the threats to enterprise operations caused by possible shocks as early as possible, and to provide a reasonable structure to effectively prevent or offset the threats caused by uncertain events, so as to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of the daily business of the enterprise. Business continuity management is a higher level concept than disaster recovery. BSI officially released the business continuity management standard BS25999 in 2007, the purpose is to make business continuity management have rules to follow. As a set of overall management standards and management processes, the BS25999 standard assists enterprises in conducting business impact analysis and risk analysis, quantifying them, and then developing and formulating various corresponding emergency and recovery plans, methods and processes to reduce the impact of disaster events on enterprises. Negative Effects.

ISO22301 is suitable for large, medium and small public and private organizations in all industries, and is especially suitable for industries in high risk and highly regulated environments, such as finance, IT communications, manufacturing, etc. Facing the frequent occurrence of natural disasters and man-made accidents in the world and China, enterprises in all walks of life have greatly increased the uncertainty and risks of their business operations, and strengthening the business continuity management of enterprises has become the best enterprise. A must-have for emergency plans. BSI believes that simply purchasing new ISO standards is not enough, and that companies should follow internationally recognized good practice and adopt a systematic approach to testing and rehearsing ISO 22301 management system planning. Mr. Erle Wang, President of BSI Learning China, said: “Many companies today have not conducted their business continuity drills. No matter what size you are operating, if you have not drilled your planning, it means you Putting their business and their employees at risk. Customers who adopted BCM’s holistic approach reported 82% faster incident and outage recovery.”