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BCM is a strategic approach that ensures continuity of critical business processes during disruptions. It combines risk assessment, contingency planning and recovery with governance and testing.
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is an enterprise-level framework to ensure critical business functions continue during and after disruptions. It covers risk assessment, incident response, recovery strategies, testing and governance. BCM reduces downtime, preserves revenue and reputation, and embeds stakeholder communication and continuous improvement into operations.
Time to restore critical functions after an incident.
Share of tests that meet planned recovery objectives.
Volume of documented internal and external dependencies.
Large bank operates multiple redundant data centers, regular DR tests and centrally governed BCM.
Manufacturer implemented multi-sourcing, buffer stocks and playbooks for supplier outages.
Agency coordinates contingency plans with municipalities, runs citizen information channels and regular exercises.
Conduct inventory of critical processes and assets.
Perform business impact analysis (BIA) and risk assessment.
Implement contingency plans, recovery runbooks and test cycles.