Overview

Organisational resilience means a harmonious integration of all business functions to enable proactive organisational decision making. Therefore it is essential that separate functions of Governance, Risk and Compliance are integrated into your organization’s business objectives through software.

This course is designed to introduce the concept of organisational resilience. It will provide delegates with a practical approach to build on the foundation of their existing skills and knowledge to develop and enhance resilience capabilities for their organisation. Business Continuity principles and practices are essential to building resilience in organisations. Developing effective resilience capabilities requires a collaborative approach between established management disciplines.

Course Objectives

• Provide an overview of organisational resilience
• To engage in workshop discussions about organisational resilience
• To offer examples of what works in practice, e.g. building resilience capabilities

Who Should Attend?

Business continuity and resilience professionals who are already familiar with the concepts of enterprise risk, emergency response, business continuity, crisis management and disaster recovery management. It is recommended that students have a minimum of a CBCI or equivalent credential with experience working in an organisation in a continuity and resilience related role.

Course Outlines:

Day 1: What is organisational resilience

• What does it mean to be resilient?
• Defining organisational resilience
• Resilience as a strategic objective
• Your business/organisation
• Resilience in organisations
• Questions and considerations

Day 2: Planning, principles and benefits

• Planning
• Principles and benefits
• Structures of modern life
• Structuring thoughts
• Management structures
• Products and Services

Day 3:  Corporate Governance and Organisational resilience

• Culture and Attitudes
• Good Corporate Governance
• Organisational resilience
• Robust or Resilient?
• Continuity and adaptability
• Resilience planning
• Components for implementation
• A model for resilience

Day 4: Building and Sustaining Resilience

• Response readiness
• Approaches to planning
• Reasons to be resilient
• Developing resilience capability
• Building resilience capability
• Being informed

Day 5: operational Risk management

• The threat landscape
• Consequences – operational
• Risk management
• Crisis and Continuity Management
• Building and sustaining resilience
• Resilience oversight
• Assessment and validation
• Maintenance and review
• Planning principles