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Advance your Business Continuity Knowledge Anytime, Anywhere
World-Class Business Continuity Education is now available wherever you have an internet connection!


The Official Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) course is the most comprehensive, complete review of business continuity concepts and industry best practices in the world and serves as the foundation for the CBCI certification. This acclaimed education is now offered in a convenient online learning format. BC Live Online provides the same quality instruction and review of the six knowledge areas of the BCI’s GPG as our award-winning, in-person classes, but this program is now accessible anywhere, and virtually any time, allowing you the convenience of meeting your schedule and saving you the expense of travel.


This is not just E-Learning - this is instructor-led online education, specifically tailored for your schedule.

The BC Live Online Official Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) course offers a high-level review of the main topics and identifies areas that students need to study. Delivered in two 2-hour sessions per week, over the course of 8 weeks, the training includes:

  • - Complete E-Learning product suite
  • - Revolutionary online self-assessment tool – BCIscope
  • - 100% up-to-date material
  • - Exam Voucher (optional)
  • - Examples, illustrations and experiences from globally respected BC practitioners
  • - A highly interactive virtual classroom learning atmosphere
  • - 24/7 email access with instructor

  • - Access to archived recordings of all class sessions for review

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Alternate Route to Membership Program

MBCP, CBCP or ABCP will be considered for membership in the BCIalternateentry1003

The Membership Council of the Institute has carefully examined other BCM credentials, mapping them against BCI certification, and felt it was appropriate to extend an invitation to join the BCI to those who hold respected credentials.

To date, the Council has identified the MBCP, CBCP and ABCP as credentials whose foundations are broadly in line with the requirements for our AMBCI and/or MBCI certifications.

Recognized as a validation of experience and knowledge, professionals that hold MBCP, CBCP or ABCP certifications and are in good standing are invited to apply for membership in the BCI without having to pass BCI’s official exam.

How Do I Apply?
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 The BCI has developed a series of Workshops for members and non-members looking at subjects that are of particular current relevance to business continuity practitioners. Some of the planned Workshops will be linked to BCI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) while others will address a specific risk or event.

Workshop resources
Go to http://www.thebci.org/workshopresources.html page where you can download PowerPoint, PDF and other resources from recent BCI workshops.

- Exercise Planning Masterclass : May 2010

- BS25999 Users' Workshop : April 2010

- Supply Chain Continuity Workshop : March 2010

- Risk, Resilience and Continuity Workshop : February 2010

- Public Sector Workshop : Octiber 2009

........................and many more dating back to Jan 2008 

Workshops Reports - are now available for the following:

Available to the public

- BS25999 Users' Workshop : April 2010

Available to BCI members

- Pandemic Planning Workshop : Sept 2009

- Exercise Planning Workshop : July 2009

- Strategic Planning Workshop : June 2009

- Supply Chain BCM Workshop : May 2009

- Public Sector BCM Workshop : April 2009

- ICT Resilience Workshop : March 2009

- Crisis Management Workshop : January 2009

- Finance Sector Workshop : December 2008

- Risk Awareness Workshop: November 2008

- Public Sector BCM: August 2008

- Test and Exercise Planning: July 2008

- Is BS 25999 Working for You?: May 2008

- Human Aspects of BCM: May 2008

- ICT Resilience: Feb 2008

BCI members can obtain these and more free via the members section

To purchase copies of these reports at £95 each please click here.
 

This Month's highlighted BCI Workshop Report is Yours FREE

As a special knowledge sharing initiative, the BCI will be offering a select few reports to the BC community free of charge

 

Take a look at the first report in this exciting new series...

 

"Human Aspects of BCM"

On 9 April 2008, the BCI hosted a Workshop on the Human Aspects of Business Continuity

The event was geared towards highlighting the extent to which organisations factor people, their most important asset, into their business continuity strategies. A series of presentations highlighted the importance of encouraging interaction between the HR department and the BCM team to ensure that staff are a BCM priority. Participants were given an insight into an array of techniques which can be employed to integrate staff into their plans and shown the benefits that such measures can generate in terms of strengthening the relationship between employee and company.

Download complete report here.

"Advancing the Art and Science of Business Continuity"

Based in Caversham, United Kingdom, the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to "promote the art and science of business continuity management" to assist organizations in preparing for and surviving minor and large-scale man-made and natural disasters. The Institute enables members to obtain guidance and support from their fellow practitioners, as well as offers professional training and certification programs to disseminate and validate the highest standards of competence and ethics. It has more than 5,000 members in 90 countries active in an estimated 2,500 organizations in private, public and third sectors. For more information, please visit www.thebcicertificate.org

 

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