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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Create business continuity management framework
   • Identify organisational scope, critical business operations and resources, and risks and disruption scenarios
   • Develop risk management strategy
   • Conduct a business impact analysis
   • Develop business continuity management framework according to identified potential risks and interruption to critical business operations
   • Demonstrate sponsorship, responsibility and accountability for business continuity management framework
   • Consult with stakeholders to establish governance structures for the business continuity management framework, according to size of organisation
   • Determine and seek approval from relevant stakeholders on resources for implementation of business continuity management framework
   • Support stakeholders to implement business continuity management framework
2. Monitor business continuity management framework and strategies
   • Develop a cyclical review process for monitoring business continuity management framework
   • Communicate and provide to relevant stakeholders information relating to cyclical review process
   • Develop and seek approval of tools that verify and validate business continuity management framework activities, processes and plans
   • Consult with relevant stakeholders implementation of business continuity management framework
   • Manage business continuity management framework learning, development and exercises across organisation
   • Implement and conduct business continuity management program audits
3. Review and evaluate business continuity management framework and strategies
   • Review and analyse reports on business continuity management framework learning and development exercises
   • Review and analyse the organisation’s communication strategy and implement relevant changes
   • Review and update overall business continuity management framework activities, processes, plans and resources according to results pre- and post-activation
   • Analyse and integrate organisation’s business impact assessment and identify dependencies and interdependencies, as required
   • Seek feedback from and respond to relevant stakeholders on business continuity management framework and strategies

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

establish, monitor and review the formal and informal business continuity management framework and strategies for an organisation or work area, including:

consulting with relevant stakeholders to establish and implement a business continuity framework and system

developing and implementing a process to review a business continuity management framework in consultation with others

analysing, evaluating and updating a business continuity management framework

demonstrating leadership and authority for embedding business continuity management into corporate and organisational levels of a business.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

risk management strategy

business impact analysis

potential risks and interruption to critical business operations

governance structures

cyclical review process

tools that verify and validate business continuity management framework activities, processes and plans

internal and external dependencies and interdependencies

current organisation functions, including existing data and information systems

organisational policies and procedures relevant to the business continuity management framework

internal, external and industry disruptions

relationship of the business continuity management framework to other business processes.

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