[BL] [1-6] WSQ Funded BCM Training and Project: Overview

Overview of Training-led with Project Implementation

If you are reading this blog, you are probably thinking of implementing your BCM project or initiating a BCM program update for your organisation.

The challenge that you are facing is to complete 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 designated BCM Manager to have a formal structure of the implementation project;
• the appointed department or business unit (BU) BCM coordinators to be trained and be BCM competent; and
• 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.

This first part is to explain how the WSQ competency-based training course 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 with funding from the Singapore government and supported by a separate consulting team to develop, implement and finalize its BCM program for an organisation. 

Each BCM planning phase (Click the right icon to find out more about each phase) will be conducted as a series of online 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 online workshop.

Click the respective icon (below) to find out more about the process of implementation.  The first row is the three-module set of training.  An example of the first module is WSQ-BCM-310 (course code) which will meet the requirement for phase 2 (RAR) and Phase 3 (BIA) of the BCM planning methodology. 

If you would like to find out more details about the course such as the syllabus and the expectation from a participant, 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
WSQ-BCM-310		WSQ-BCM-320		WSQ-BCM-330

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

Please note that "BCM-410 BCM Project Initiation" is competency-based but NOT a WSQ funded course.

This includes the review of the submissions for the RAR, BIA, BCS and PD by the participants from each department.  You have the option to have the RAR, BIA and BCS report to be complied with and reviewed.  This additional support work, if needed, will be taken up separately with a BCM Institute's program team.

Additional BCM Support Work

	Phase 1A	Phase 1B
	Project Management

More About SSG's WSQ System

For those who want to find out more about WSQ or the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ), it is a national credential system that trains, develops, assesses and certifies skills and competencies for the workforce.