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Bitesize

Keeping the lights on

Business continuity and emergency exercising.

Level
Bitesize
Learning time
1 hour 15 minutes
Where
Crisis and Emergency Leadership
Price
£39

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About this course

Overview and Outcomes.

Overview

This module explores how public service organisations keep the services people depend on running when normal conditions fail. It sets out the Business Continuity Institute's six professional practices, business impact analysis and its recovery terms, ISO 22301, ISO 22316 and the Civil Contingencies Act duty. The British Library cyber attack of 2023 shows how legacy infrastructure and candour shape recovery. This module looks at how organisations rehearse for crises and why lessons identified are so often not learned. It covers Weick and Sutcliffe's five principles of high-reliability organisations, the main types of exercise, the gap between lessons identified and lessons learned, and after action review. Exercise Cygnus in 2016 shows the distance between knowing and being ready.

What you'll develop

In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:

  1. Explain the Business Continuity Institute's six professional practices and why continuity is a programme rather than a document.
  2. Use MTPD, RTO, RPO and MBCO to set and test recovery priorities for your organisation's critical services.
  3. Assess your continuity arrangements against the British Library case, including legacy infrastructure, long outages and honesty after failure.
  4. Describe Weick and Sutcliffe's five principles of high-reliability organisations and what each looks like in everyday practice.
  5. Choose between discussion, table top, command post and live exercises according to what you most need to find out.
What it covers

The Modules.

1 hour 15 minutes of learning.

  1. 04Business ContinuityThis module explores how public service organisations keep the services people depend on running when normal conditions fail. It sets out the Business Continuity Institute's six professional practices, business impact analysis and its recovery terms, ISO 22301, ISO 22316 and the Civil Contingencies Act duty. The British Library cyber attack of 2023 shows how legacy infrastructure and candour shape recovery.39 min
  2. 05Preparedness, Exercising and LearningThis module looks at how organisations rehearse for crises and why lessons identified are so often not learned. It covers Weick and Sutcliffe's five principles of high-reliability organisations, the main types of exercise, the gap between lessons identified and lessons learned, and after action review. Exercise Cygnus in 2016 shows the distance between knowing and being ready.39 min
Where it fits

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Part of the Crisis and Emergency Leadership topic, also sold whole as Steady in the storm.

How credit works

Go deeper, and pay only the difference

  1. You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
  2. Next stepFocus, Prepared, not surprised, 3 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
  3. Explore, Leading through emergencies, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
  4. The whole topicImmerse, Steady in the storm, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.

When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms

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