The Business Continuity Institute

  • Reading, United Kingdom

Telephone
+44 (0)118 947 8215



Courses available

Business Impact Analysis Training Course

The BIA is the main technique used for analysing an organization and forms the Analysis stage of the BCM Lifecycle. It will help you review and assess an organization to identify its objectives, how it functions, and the constraints of its operating environment.

This 2-day course comes complete with course slides and Student Workbook that contains exercises to be completed throughout the course. The course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) and reflects current International Standards in business continuity.

What the course covers:

  • Concepts of BIA
  • The four types of BIA
  • BIA methods
  • How the BIA information is used in the Design phase of the BCM Lifecycle

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Understand and apply the different methods available to conduct a BIA
  • Extract all the information you need from an organization to enable you to Design the most appropriate business continuity solutions

You will receive 16 CPD points and a Certificate of Attendance from the BCI on successful completion of the course.


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CBCI 2018 Certification Course

The course is for anyone that has business continuity responsibilities within their organization and/or anyone looking to develop a career in the industry:

  • Business continuity professionals already working in the industry
  • Business continuity coordinators/champions with responsibilities in their organization
  • Professionals looking to start a career in the industry
  • Those that have business continuity responsibilities embedded in their role in smaller organizations such as Managing Directors or Operations Managers

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Meet the instructors
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    John Paul Breed

    Lecturer

    Senior Crisis Leader (retired UK Police Superintendent) with over 30 years’ in the public, private and non-profit sector dealing with emergency, crisis and organizational resilience experience at strategic, tactical and operational levels including collaboration and mutual aid activations to support major incidents at a local, regional and national level.

    Key strengths include the development, implementation and validation of business continuity in line with ISO 22301, together with the development of integrated emergency management strategies for large high risk, low frequency operations.

    A proven track record of performance management whilst leading a large geographically dispersed work force, adept in change and budget management. Complemented by Masters’ level academia and professional qualifications in Business Continuity, Emergency Management and Security. 

    Most recently Head of Emergency Preparedness, Business Continuity and Resilience in the UK and formerly the Business Continuity Lead and Emergency Manager for the Ministry of Advanced Education and the British Columbia Ministry of Health, together with being a strategic advisor on crisis management in the UAE.

    A curriculum developer and course leader and university lecturer for Buckinghamshire New University delivering the certificate in Business Continuity (CBCI) and Diploma in Business Continuity (DBCI), together with being a Chartered Security Professional and Fellow of the Security Institute.

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    Rob Cooke

    Owner

    Highly analytical and accomplished Resilience Practitioner with extensive experience consulting/supporting implementation and maintenance of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity & Crisis Management policies for Disaster Recovery Plans and Crisis Management Plans; project activities on different topics.

    Instrumental in executing the implementation of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity documentation, measurement, and reporting processes. Stellar record of providing support to the Organizational Resilience Team in documenting review of materials to determine the sufficiency of action items derived from different business areas of the organization. Demonstrated success in delivering financial, manufacturing, and international banking services across, IT Service Industry, Energy Sector, and Public Sector. Skilled in IT Governance, Operational & Cyber Resilience, Service Continuity, Incident & Recovery Management, Business Continuity Management, Infrastructure Project Management, and Service Design/Delivery.

    Proficient in Project Management, Disaster Recovery planning, testing and documenting; improving Operational and Cyber Resilience as well as Business Continuity standards through the introduction of resilience, and efficiency initiatives.

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