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What Does Good Business Continuity Management Look Like? Metrics and Performance Indicators

Frank Lady

The previous chapters have outlined the essential components of successful business continuity management (BCM), with a particular focus on the financial sector: identifying potential threats; mitigating their impact; providing an effective response process; and safeguarding the interests of an organisation’s stakeholders (shareholders/owners, employees, customers).11 Adapted from BCM definition, ISO22301: 2012. Three more simply stated themes emerge from this concept that illuminate the enduring objectives of BCM: managing risk, improving resilience and controlling cost. With these objectives in view, this final chapter will focus on how BCM’s leadership measures success, as the programme navigates along the pathway of creating and sustaining excellence.

Successful BCM must achieve a balanced approach to meeting these three competing objectives. Threats typically increase over time in strength and number. Institutions cannot mitigate all risks or achieve perfect resilience. BCM leadership must therefore strive to achieve the greatest amount of organisational resilience for the least expense.

This chapter will address the key elements of these three themes: what to measure

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