This training program assists anyone who has some involvement in BCM/DR - whether from BCM, Risk, IT, HR, Compliance, Operations or other business areas - to increase their knowledge. You will also get assistance if you are preparing for the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) qualification exam (DR-501, required for CBCP/CMCP/ABCP certification) and/or BCI certification (required for MBCI/AMBCI/FBCI certifications).

The 3-day Business Continuity Management training course and the 2-day Advanced BCP Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning Workshop,which have been developed in accordance with industry standards including Australian Standard HB221, British Standard BS25999, ISO/PAS 22399, APRA, ITSCM (ITIL), DS4 (COBIT) and DRII, can be conducted in-house or in public.

What clients say

“Best training course I have attended. Rinske was knowledgeable, patient, and provided thought-provoking exercises and examples. Many Thanks.” – Australian Research Council

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and gained a lot of useful information, which I have been able to put to good use. I would recommend the course to other Bank colleagues who need to have a good understanding on Business Continuity Management.” - P. Scholefield - Bendigo & Adelaide Bank

“I thoroughly enjoyed the course and am looking forward to applying the framework and methodology. My expectations were met 100% - N. Niemand - Datacom

“Thanks Rinske, I thought the course was brilliant and I also leant a lot from the discussions with the other participants… This is a very useful secondary benefit of the course.” R. Evans - Snowy Hydro Ltd

“Thank you for making the course a really fantastic learning experience.” P. Mattiuzzo - IBM Consultant

“Thanks for the great course. Your format, delivery and content are excellent. You have obviously invested many hours into development, and your real world examples from your (very) extensive experience add heaps. I learnt a lot. Some of which I’ve already utilised. Thanks again!” P. Howley - World Vision Australia

See below dates of the 3-day BCM training course

Australia

• Hobart: 21-23 July 2010
• Adelaide: 28-30 July 2010
• Canberra: 2-4 August 2010
• Sydney: 9-11 August 2010
• Darwin: 18-20 August 2010
• Melbourne: 15-17 September 2010
• Perth: 20-22 October 2010
• Brisbane: 17-19 November 2010

New Zealand

• Wellington: 30 August - 1 September 2010
• Auckland: 8-10 September 2010

Training courses in other cities in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia are held at request.

Bookings - BCP training course

Email us for more information or bookings, download the 3-day Business Continuity Management training course or contact us on +61 (0) 407 077094 for further details.

In order to provide you with assistance in getting ready for internal/external BCP audits, help you with Advanced Business Continuity Testing and Pandemic Planning challenges, Business As Usual has also launched a new 2-day workshop.

Advanced Business Continuity Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning (2-day workshop)

This workshop gives you hands-on experience and is a confidence builder for those who are faced with the challenge of Business Continuity (BC) or Disaster Recovery (DR) audits, BCP Testing and Pandemic Planning. During the workshop you will be performing an actual pre-audit self assessment on your own BCP based on the standards relevant to you, and you will also put together a BCP Test script and detailed BCP Test plan for your organisation.

Those who don’t have a BCP in place yet, will learn what they should incorporate in the process, in order to align their BCP with industry standards, Government Guidelines and industry best-practice.

The workshop assists you and your organisation with assurance or compliance/certification with standards such as ISO/PAS 22399, APS222/GPS232 (APRA), BS25999, AS HB221:2004, Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, NFPA 1600:2007, ITSCM (ITIL) and DS4 (COBIT)

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how to review the organisation’s BC/DR processes
• Get practical BCP Testing templates and practice with these during the workshop
• Receive the latest best-practice techniques for Pandemic Planning
• Know how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls in relation to BCP audits and tests/exercises

Next dates (immediately after the 3-day BCM course):

Workshops in other cities in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia are held at request.

Bookings - Advanced BCP Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning workshop

Email us for more information or bookings, download the Advanced BCP Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning Workshop brochure or contact us on +61 (0) 407 077094 for further details.

• Simple, affordable planning template for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Fill-in the gaps, and benefit from the included checklists to save you weeks of work
• Prepare your business for pandemic flu, power outages, fires, denied office access, phone/IT failures, flash flooding, supplier/staff unavailability and other threats relevant to your organisation.
• Improve reputation and customer/employee confidence
• Achieve compliance
• Even reduce insurance premiums!

The BCP/DRP template is available in various formats (including MsWord) and is guaranteed to save you weeks of work! It’s based on best-practice and has been developed in accordance with Government standards and guidelines including ISO22399, APRA, BS25999, DRII, SS540 and HB221.

• Risks relevant to your organisation
• How to manage the ‘people aspects’ of Business Continuity for your business
• Time-critical processes that you need to continue to keep your business going
• Operational and financial impacts of potential disasters and disruptions
• Contingency provisions in place, and related operational procedures
• How to easily keep your plan updated, including Crisis Management procedures
• Ensuring your staff remain aware of their role
• Exercises and tests to check if the plan will actually work.

Fill out the contact form below to request more information on the template. Please provide your telephone contact details if you prefer to discuss your requirements over the phone, or call us via the details provided below.

Contact information
Telephone: (+61) 407 077 094
Fax: (+61) 430 10 7896
info@disasterplantemplate.com

See also the Business As Usual Top 10 Tips for small Business Continuity Plans (including pandemic/swine flu preparedness)

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For Small Business Month events, click through to the smallbiz.nsw.gov.au website.

In order to provide you with assistance in getting ready for internal/external BCP audits, help you with Advanced Business Continuity Testing and Pandemic Planning challenges, Business As Usual has also launched a new 2-day workshop, in addition to our standard 3-day BCP/DR training courses

The 2-day Advanced BCP Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning Workshop,which has been developed in accordance with industry standards including Australian Standard HB221, British Standard BS25999, ISO/PAS 22399, APRA, ITSCM (ITIL), DS4 (COBIT) and DRII, can be conducted in-house or in public.

What clients said about Business As Usual courses

“Best training course I have attended. Rinske was knowledgeable, patient, and provided thought-provoking exercises and examples. Many Thanks.” – Australian Research Council

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and gained a lot of useful information, which I have been able to put to good use. I would recommend the course to other Bank colleagues who need to have a good understanding on Business Continuity Management.” - P. Scholefield - Bendigo & Adelaide Bank

“I thoroughly enjoyed the course and am looking forward to applying the framework and methodology. My expectations were met 100% - N. Niemand - Datacom

“Thanks Rinske, I thought the course was brilliant and I also leant a lot from the discussions with the other participants… This is a very useful secondary benefit of the course.” R. Evans - Snowy Hydro Ltd

“Thank you for making the course a really fantastic learning experience.” P. Mattiuzzo - IBM Consultant

“Thanks for the great course. Your format, delivery and content are excellent. You have obviously invested many hours into development, and your real world examples from your (very) extensive experience add heaps. I learnt a lot. Some of which I’ve already utilised. Thanks again!” P. Howley - World Vision Australia

Advanced Business Continuity Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning (2-day workshop)

This workshop gives you hands-on experience and is a confidence builder for those who are faced with the challenge of Business Continuity (BC) or Disaster Recovery (DR) audits, BCP Testing and Pandemic Planning. During the workshop you will be performing an actual pre-audit self assessment on your own BCP based on the standards relevant to you, and you will also put together a BCP Test script and detailed BCP Test plan for your organisation.

Those who don’t have a BCP in place yet, will learn what they should incorporate in the process, in order to align their BCP with industry standards, Government Guidelines and industry best-practice.

The workshop assists you and your organisation with assurance or compliance/certification with standards such as ISO/PAS 22399, APS222/GPS232 (APRA), BS25999, AS HB221:2004, Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, NFPA 1600:2007, ITSCM (ITIL) and DS4 (COBIT)

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how to review the organisation’s BC/DR processes
• Get practical BCP Testing templates and practice with these during the workshop
• Receive the latest best-practice techniques for Pandemic Planning
• Know how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls in relation to BCP audits and tests/exercises

Next dates (immediately after the 3-day BCP/DR training course):

Workshops in other cities in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia are held at request.

Bookings - Advanced BCP Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning workshop

Download the 2-day Advanced BCP Testing, Compliance and Pandemic Planning workshop brochure, email us for more information, or contact us on +61 (0) 407 077094 for further details.

This consultancy service is used as ‘pre-audit’ to get the organisation ready for annual/APRA audits, or as a general check-up on its BCP/DR/ITSCM processes. The Health Check is developed in accordance with APRA, British Standard BS25999, ISO/PAS 22399, DS4 (COBIT) and Australian Standard HB221.

A Health Check report is provided after assessment.

In order to provide you with assistance in getting ready for internal/external BCP audits, Business As Usual also launches in 2009 a new 1-day workshop to assist with your organisation’s audit preparation and determine the gaps in your BCP.

Are you ready for the Business Continuity Audit? (1-day workshop)
Presented by Rinske Geerlings, CBCP (DRII)

This workshop gives you hands-on experience and is a confidence builder for those who are faced with the challenge of Business Continuity (BC) or Disaster Recovery (DR) audits. It assists in reviewing your own organisation’s BC capability and DR processes.

This workshop assists your organisation with assurance or compliance/certification with standards such as ISO/PAS 22399, APS222/GPS232 (APRA), BS25999, AS HB221:2004, Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, NFPA 1600:2007, ITSCM (ITIL) and DS4 (COBIT)

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how to review the organisation’s BC/DR processes
• Improve your preparedness for BC/DR audits and assurance initiatives
• Be better equipped for any Business Continuity audit consulting work
• Understand in what ways BC/DR audits can be challenging
• Learn how to present findings and recommendations to senior management
• Know how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls in relation to BCP audits

Next dates:
Melbourne - Mon 23 March 2009
Sydney - Tue 31 March 2009
Brisbane - Tue 21 April 2009

Other cities in Australia, New Zealand and Asia at request. Visit the training website for more information, download the brochure here, email us for more information, or phone Greg or Dennis at ALC via (+61) 2 9388 9999 for further details.

Other information about Business As Usual training courses that are available in combination with the 1-day Audit workshop (including testimonials) can be found here.

Development and improvement of BC Plans

Business As Usual coaches managers responsible for BCP/DR with implementing improved processes, as required by using Business As Usual templates and/or in house training.

BCP - Board preparation and presentations

Business As Usual assists with board presentations at the organisation, in order to get the business case (and budget) for BCP/DR approved, and facilitates board room rehearsals and role plays based on disaster scenarios.

Regular involvement with business groups and running practical workshops form the basis of Business As Usual’s ‘best-practice’ approach to Business Continuity.

A set of templates facilitate the implementation of improved BCP/DR processes. Templates are developed in accordance with APRA, the newly released British Standard BS25999 and Australian Standards.

Examples of templates offered by Business As Usual to assist your organisation in documenting its Business Continuity process, are related to:

• Risk assessment and categorisation
• Business Continuity Planning organisational structure
• Documenting key business processes
• Performing operational and financial Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• BC Plan development
• BC Plan exercises and training

Click here for information on simple, affordable BCP/DRP templates for Small and Medium sized organisations (SMEs)

This service includes assistance with achieving compliance (e.g. operational risk management including Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II compliance) and cost efficiency/productivity improvement projects.

Business As Usual assists by providing IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Master Level training (Service Support and Service Delivery processes) and implementing ITIL processes.

ITIL (ITSCM) integration with BCM

Organisations that struggle with linking ITIL (ITSCM) with BCP/DR processes have come to the right partner, as certification is held in both of these areas and we are experienced in aligning Business Continuity plans with IT Service Continuity plans.

For a presentation given by Rinske Geerlings during the Dec 2006 itSMF NSW seminar, please click on the link below:

Presentation given by Rinske Geerlings (itSMF NSW seminar - 7 Dec 2006)

For the upcoming itSMF conference (27-29 August 2008, Canberra) where Business As Usual will be speaking, see the itSMF Conference website.