The Business Continuity Institute

Purpose of the Workshop
The Risk, Resilience & Continuity Workshop aims to provide you with a better understanding of the potential contribution that BCM can make towards meeting the need for organisations to become ever more resilient in the face of an increasingly competitive and financially challenging operating environment. What must the next generation of BCM look like? How should BCM interact with the other resilience disciplines, especially including Risk Management? What knowledge do you, as a BCM professional, need in order to be a key player in ensuring the long-term viability of your organisation.

Many of the ideas being explored in this Workshop first emerged in the BCI Workshop held in June 2009 and you may wish to review the Report “Strategic Planning Workshop” that is available to download from the members area of the BCI web-site.

Who should attend?
The Workshop is being developed with the majority of BCM practitioners in mind, but especially those with the determination to promote continuity planning and risk management as significant contributors to the continuing success of the organisation by which they are employed. The outcomes from this Workshop will provide fresh insights into the ways in which BCM is developing as a vital management discipline.

BCI Members will wish to ensure that they have credited the appropriate number of CPD hours to their personal accounts as a result of attending this Workshop.

What will be discussed in the Workshop?
We have divided the Workshop into two main sessions:-

Session 1 is being developed to help us to understand what might be meant by “resilience” and to explore how the relationship between Risk Management and BCM can be developed to provide the basis for an effective resilience strategy. Presentations from Professor Ed Borodzicz of the Portsmouth University Business School and Richard Waterer, Senior Vice President at Marsh Risk Consulting, will take a broad view of the reasons why, for top management, resilience is vital to corporate success; and the role that BCM can and should be playing as a catalyst for change.

Session 2 comprises three case studies from a variety of sectors: public sector; finance; energy; water; transport ... plus the shared experience of delegates. The presenters are from the NHS Resilience Project, Santander (having brought together the Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley) and Parsons Brinckerhoff with their wide experience of major infrastructure projects. Each presentation will illustrate how these organisations are developing and delivering resilience strategies based firmly on the principles of effective continuity planning and risk management and, from these, delegates will identify how these same principles can be applied within their own organisations.

Professor Ed Borodzicz
Appointed Professor of Risk and Crisis Management in January 2005 Edward's interests include: risk, crisis and security management, risk and human behaviour, disaster response, socio-technical systems failure, corporate risk and business continuity, security and resilience, terrorism, transport risks, ethnographic research and simulations and games for training. Edward has worked extensively over the past 15 years with the emergency services, local and central government agencies and large businesses.

Richard Waterer
Richard Waterer is a Senior Vice President with Marsh Risk Consulting in London. Richard started his career in the disaster recovery and business continuity industry, before joining Marsh in 2000, since when he has undertaken a range of risk management roles. He currently heads up client and service development for Marsh Risk Consulting, which includes project managing a number of client engagements that consider both risk and continuity issues. Richard sat on the Lloyd's of London 2009 Panel on Executive Risk and is the author of the Marsh publication, "Managing Risk: A Guide for Business Managers".

Dr James Kimmance SBCI
Senior Delivery Manager & Head of Risk Management, Parsons Brinkerhoff
Awaiting Biography

Richard Bridgford MBCI
Head of Data Security and Business Resilience, Santander
Awaiting Biography

Risk & Resilience
Professor Ed Borodzicz, University of Portsmouth, Business School
The presentation will focus on the human dimensions of risk and resilience, illustrated with examples from recent research projects. Delegates will be encouraged to consider how their organisations could better prepare for crisis events as part of the BCM arrangements.
Delegates will be challenged to consider ...

What are the implications of BCM as a “corporate seat-belt”?
Can risk ever be “managed”?
Are we training and evaluating teams for resilience?

Delivering resilience through integrating risk management and business continuity management.
Richard Waterer, Senior Vice President, Marsh Risk Consulting
Richard will consider how BCM contributes to risk management and the practical role of BCM in the development and delivery of a resilience strategy.

What is the value from integrating risk management and business continuity management?
How is business continuity and risk management already converging?
How can continuity professionals practically go about integrating the two disciplines?
How will this further top management's demand for improved resilience?

The NHS Resilience Project
Merlyn Demaine, Project Manager, NHS Resilience Project

Purpose and objectives for the NHS Resilience Project
Complexity: third-party product and service providers; critical (life-saving) procedures; multiple suppliers; ...
Pressures on procurement; conflicting objectives; cultural challenges; ...

Infrastructure Resilience
Dr James Kimmance, Senior Delivery Manager & Head of Risk Management, Parsons Brinkerhoff
A review of techniques for assessing risk and resilience of infrastructure, with reference across generic projects to illustrate the key issues involved in assessing and then developing resilience strategies within the energy, water and transport sectors.

What is meant by resilience and how is risk perceived, assessed and communicated in different sectors and countries?
Does scale make a difference?
Just how complex do we get with dependency & interdependency issues?
The interplay between risk – business continuity – strategy in resilience.
How is success measured?
Trends and developments.

Resilience Planning in a Major Banking Corporation
Richard Bridgford / Mick Paisley, Santander
A finance sector case study that highlights the importance of maintaining a clear vision of the ways in which organisational resilience can be achieved rather than focusing on a fixed outcome.

The use of a four-level model that covers both strategic direction and operational activity, and provides performance measurement to meet the expectations of a variety of stakeholders.
The need to embrace a range of disciplines, of which BCM is just one, and ensure effective coordination between technical specialists.
The adoption of a multi-dimensional view of risk that enables effective communication with top management.
The importance of leadership and the need for political sensitivity in promoting the “resilience vision” throughout the organisation.

Click here to book to ensure your place at the Risk, Resilience and Continuity Workshop and take advantage of the Early-Bird rates.

Workshop offers!

EARLY BIRD RATE UNTIL 15TH JANUARY:
BCI Members and employees of BCI Partners: £250+VAT
non-members: £336+VAT.

Full price after 15th January:
BCI Members and employees of BCI Partners - £295 (+vat)
Non-members - £395 (+vat).

Non-member rates include the option of 12 months BCI Affiliate Membership in order to provide access to the conference materials and the Members-only area of the BCI website after the Workshop. It also provides discounted rates for attendance at BCI Workshops for the next twelve months.

Venue and Timings
The Bristol Hotel
Bristol
Prince Street
Bristol
BS1 4QF
Tel: +44 (0) 1179230333
Fax: +44 (0) 1179230300
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