Best Practice in Business Continuity
We are committed to promoting best practice in every field of Business Continuity Planning, not least because best practice promotes maximum efficiency.
What Best Practice Means
There are a number of competing standards seeking to promote Best Practice.
- BCI Best Practice Guidelines and PAS 56. PAS 56 is based on the Business Continuity Institute's Best Practice Guidelines, produced in conjunction with the BSI. It is suitable for all organisations of any size. It provides a 'holistic' grounding in the whole process, principles, and terminology of Business Continuity Management.
- ITIL IT Service Continuity (Contingency Planning Module). Specifically suitable for organisations who are taking on the broad ITIL service management approach, and assessing their processes in line with Office of Government Commerce (OGC) best practice. There are specific boundaries and terminology associated with these guidelines. The BCP element in these guidelines has been cut down to a minimum.
- BS 15000 is the standard for IT Service Management, based on the ITIL best practice guidelines. Part 1 is a specification with quality criteria suitable to be audited against. Part 2 provides supporting 'best practice' and is very similar to the advice found in the ITIL guidelines.
- BS 7799 (BS ISO/IEC 17799:2000) Part 1 is the IT Code of Practice for information security management. Section 11 of the 12 concerns Business Continuity Management. There are many other related parts, including Inventory, Incident Management, and Media Handling.
Who Defines Best Practice
The Business Continuity Institute is the UK's leading and longest-lasting organisation which certifies professionals in all aspects of Business Continuity Planning. As full members of the BCI, our consultants have a long-standing commitment to upholding its Best Practices.
Our Unique Approach
Best Practice does not provide a prescriptive set of rules, but requires you work be oriented in line with the perspectives set by that standard.
Every organisation is unique, faces different types and levels of risks, has its own unique technical and business history, and is at its own stage of development in Business Continuity Planning.
We will help you identify and prioritise those elements which are true priorities for your organisation, and devise strategies for implementing your plans at a range of appropriate levels.
