[ITL] [1-6] Training-led BCM Implementation: Overview

Overview of "Competency-based" Training with an option for Implement or Update Your BCM Program

If you are reading this blog, you are probably preparing to implement your BCM project or initiate a BCM program update for your organisation.

You face challenges completing the implementation or update within a reasonable budget.  What is being introduced to you in this article is to allow:

• the Organisation BCM coordinator or OBC or the designated BCM Manager, to have a formal structure of the implementation project, click the icon for "OBC" definition
• the appointed department or business unit (BU) BCM coordinators (BUCs) to be trained and be BCM competent click the icon for the "BUC" definition
• at the same time for the BU BCM Coordinators to accurately complete and submit or update their unit-level inputs to the Organisation BCM coordinator for compilation.

One common concern if you are the appointed BCM project/ program manager or OBC is how you can better assess the accuracy of submitting the respective inputs from the BUCs? You need professional help to have a 2nd opinion on the submissions. Hence, the deployment of highly qualified BCM facilitators. 

Remember this is a training course and not a consultancy project.  BCM Institute provides all non-training activities such as the review of contents and consultations as value-adding services, and it is not charged to the organisation.

This first part explains how the competency-based training course can be used to implement or update the BCM project and programme.

Training-led BCM Implementation.  This series is part of the reading for participants embarking on a BCM implementation or updating of the existing BCM programme using a combination of training facilitated by an experience BCM professional team to develop, implement and finalize its BCM program for an organisation. 

Time Commitment: Each BCM planning phase will be conducted as a series of online/onsite workshops, and each workshop is a 3-hour module.  Participants are expected to complete the template or update their unit's previous submission before attending the next workshop.

In the table "Training-led BCM Implementation" below, click the respective icons to learn more about the BCM implementation process.  The first row is the three-module set of training.  An example of the first module is BCM-310 (course code) which will meet the requirement for phase 2 (RAR) and Phase 3 (BIA) of the BCM planning methodology. 

If you want more details about the course, such as the syllabus and the participant's expectations, read "Course Overview" and "Course Description".

Training-led BCM Implementation

Click icon for detailed elaboration of how each phase is conducted
BCM Planning Methodology
Phase 2	Phase 3	Phase 4	Phase 5	Phase 6
Risk Analysis and Review	Business Impact Analysis	Business Continuity Strategy	BC Plan Development	Testing and Exercising
RAR	BIA	BCS	PD	TE
Assessing Risk and Business Impact Requirements		Developing Business Continuity Strategies and Plans		Testing and Exercising Business Continuity Plans
BCM-310		BCM-320		BCM-330

Additional BCM Support Work.  When incorporating competency-based training as part of the overall BCM project, certain information is required to kick start a working framework for the engagement. 

This includes one review of the RAR, BIA, BCS and PD submissions by the participants from each department.  The OBC can have the RAR, BIA, and BCS submissions compiled as a report and have one review provided before the end of the last training session.  This additional support work, if needed, will be taken up separately with BCM Institute's program team.

BCM Project Initiation Support Work

This is the 2-Day or four  3-hour online sessions to set up the BCM project.  It is an inventory check of the existing BCM and related documentation.  We recommend that the project team attend this course.

Phase 1A	Phase 1B
Project Management

Competency-based Training

These BCM courses are based on the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) framework.  The courses are developed and approved by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG).