Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 7.0 edition

The GPG 7.0 marks the start of a new journey where this guide will be reviewed every year to better reflect the changing practices of the business continuity and resilience industry as they happen. The new edition maintains a collaborative approach to business continuity, ensuring that organizations and individuals understand how to work with related management disciplines to successfully implement business continuity and resilience solutions.

The new GPG consists of six Professional Practices, split into two management practices and four technical practices, which provide a structure to be used in the development of a Business Continuity Management System.

A new focus on the Business Continuity Management System

The previously termed Business Continuity Management Lifecycle has been replaced by the more scalable and holistic term: Business Continuity Management System.
In creating the Business Continuity Management System, the GPG 7.0 edition uses a methodology designed to be applicable to all organizations, regardless of size, industry sector, or geography.

Professional Practices (PP):

PP1 – Establishing a Business Continuity Management System (previously Policy and Programme Management)
PP2 – Embracing Business Continuity (previously Embedding Business Continuity)
PP3 – Analysis
PP4 – Solutions Design (previously Design)
PP5 – Enabling Solutions (previously Implementation)
PP6 – Validation

What’s new?

The GPG 7.0 edition encompasses the progressive evolution of business continuity as a discipline and highlights a Business Continuity Management System as the realization of business continuity management.
The ISO standard for business continuity (ISO 22301:2019) specifies requirements for a Business Continuity Management System.
There are strong links to ISO standards in the form of practical methodologies connected within the Professional Practices, with a view to help actualize the requirements as defined by the ISO.
It is greatly prescriptive about implementing the Business Continuity Management System and describes the priority stages in developing, applying, and managing a successful management system.
It incorporates updated processes and terminologies that have entered or evolved within the business continuity lexicon since the last review.

Learn more about the new GPG 7.0 edition with our dedicated articles:

Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) Edition 7.0 announced

Good Practice Guidelines 7.0: A new focus on the Business Continuity Management System

Good Practice Guidelines 7.0: Building an understanding of business continuity

Good Practice Guidelines 7.0: Analysing business continuity requirements

Good Practice Guidelines 7.0: Preparing business continuity strategies and solutions

Good Practice Guidelines 7.0: Enabling business continuity solutions

How to get your copy of the GPG 7.0 edition:

As part of your BCI Membership, you have access to a softcopy of the GPG. You can find this below or within your member dashboard. If you a non-member you will need to purchase it via the BCI Shop.

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Download the free GPG Lite for an overview of the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)

The GPG Lite Edition 7.0 is a condensed version of the GPG 7.0 edition, the definitive guide for business continuity and resilience professionals. The GPG Lite is for any professional looking to take their first steps towards understanding business continuity and improving organizational resilience.

Inside the GPG Lite:

An overview of business continuity management and the BCI
The objectives of each of the Professional Practices (PP)
Information on how the GPG can enhance a professional’s career in business continuity
A Glossary of terms

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NEW! Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 7.0 Edition