Courses Schedule

BCM Institute Courses

The available course schedules encompass a diverse array of offerings, ranging from Operational Resilience and Operational Resilience Audit to Business Continuity Management, Crisis Management, Crisis Communication, IT Disaster Recovery, and the ISO22301 Business Continuity Management System Lead Auditor course, ensuring a comprehensive and flexible learning experience to accommodate a wide spectrum of professional needs.

BCM Institute offers both certifications, non-certification and competency-based courses, which are compliant with the latest global BCM standard, the ISO 22301:2019 Societal Security — Business Continuity Management Systems.

For those venturing into IT Disaster Recovery (IT DR), you would be pleased to note that our certification classes also address the requirements of the ISO 27001 – Information Security Management standards in relation to IT DR Planning.

All our courses reference the 7-step BCM Body of Knowledge (BoK) one goes through to implement a BCM Plan (see diagram). An e-learning series of courses is also available for BCM practitioners to gain a fundamental knowledge of BCM.

Whether you are new to Business Continuity (BC), Crisis Management (CM), Crisis Communication (CC), Operational Resilience (OR) or IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) planning or a professional practitioner, we have a course with just the right fit for you as the courses are tailored to your level of involvement in the discipline, your job needs and your career advancement plans.

All training syllabuses have been designed to assist professionals in upgrading their competency using the Know, Do and Manage level of expertise.

KNOW For professionals who want to be acknowledged for their fundamental understanding of a given discipline. Passing the Planner level exam and completing the course will automatically be awarded the Planner level certification.

DO For professionals who would like to be acknowledged for their understanding and training in the intricacies and maintenance of their organisation’s plans, be it for BCM, CM, CC, OR or IT DRP. To obtain any of the disciplines’ (BCM, CM, CC, OR or IT DRP) Specialist level certification, one has to have at least one year of experience in the discipline of choice, pay an application fee and pass the relevant qualifying examination.

MANAGE For professionals who are tasked to oversee and manage the organization’s plans and would like to know how to implement, manage and maintain the plans. They will be given the expert-level certification only upon passing the relevant qualifying Expert-level examination, having at least three years of experience and paying an application fee.