Aims

1: The INFORMATION MANAGER learns what business continuity management (BCM) means to a business, why it is important regarded to compliance, business objective and corporate responsibility.
The student learns what the the BCM “building blocks” are and learns to set-up a basic business continuity strategy.
The student also learns what governance is required in a BCM program and makes acquaintance with the principles of handling a real crisis.

2: The INDORMATION MANAGER is able to set up a Business Continuity Management System (“BCMS”). To be able to do so, the fundamental concepts are explained and used in practice:
Alignment parameters, Recovery time objectives (RTO), Recovery point objectives (RPO), The concept of what a “business process” really is, The process dependencies/contributors, Composition of a crisis team,  Crisis communication, Crisis actions, ...
Also, the linked concepts information security/risk attributes like confidentiality, integrity and data protection (GDPR), non-availability of personal data and data breach are explained and expected to be used in a practical business game.

3: The INFORMATION MANAGER builds expertise in the governance aspects of business continuity management. He / she learns to deal with the concepts of “quality of the information ” and“completeness of information ”in a business continuity management system.
He / she knows will know the concepts and the differences between a “table test”, ICT-related test and non-ICT-related test. Further, fundaments of risk-management create the ability to perform a risk-assessment, to deal with the results of such analysis (interpretation), risk classification, risk types and concrete risk examples that can cause disruptive events like a cyber-attack , a fire,…

4: The INFORMATION MANAGER has expertise in managing a real crisis.
By means of a business game during the course, students will create their own fictional Company and set-up the BCM fundamentals.  The game consists in the creation of a disaster scenario (by the teacher) and the groups will have to deal with this crisis. The teacher intervenes with complexity, fictitious additional difficulties, curious press and customers ... The groups present and debrief to each-other in order for the game to be very learnful.

5: The INFORMATION MANAGER has the necessary analytical insight. He / she identifies a problem / situation in his context.
Search efficiently foradditional, relevant information. He / she performs activities and uses brainpower to approach problems and situations in a targeted manner.

Order of Enrolment

This course unit is a prerequisite for taking the following course units:
YP0627 : Integrated IMS Lab (No longer offered this academic year)

Identical courses

This course is identical to the following courses:
YP0523 : Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recovery (No longer offered this academic year)

Is included in these courses of study

• Bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement (Mechelen) (Applied Data Intelligence) 180 ects.
• Bachelor Informatiemanagement en Multimedia: keuzetraject Informatiemanagement en Security - Uitdovend (Mechelen) 180 ects.