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Activity or activities One or more tasks
undertaken by, or for an organization, that
produces or supports the delivery of one or
more products and services.
Analysis (PP3) The Professional Practice within
the business continuity management lifecycle
that reviews and assesses an organization to
identify its objectives, how it functions and the
constraints of its operating environment.
Audit A systematic, independent and
documented process for obtaining evidence
and evaluating it objectively to determine the
extent to which the criteria are fulfilled.
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,Business Continuity (BC) The capability of the
organization to continue delivery of products or
services at acceptable pre-defined levels
following disruptive incident.
Business continuity managementA holistic
management process that identifies potential
threats to an organization and the impacts to
business operations those threats, if realized,
might cause, and which provides a framework
for building organizational resilience with the
capability of an effective response that
safeguards the interests of its keystakeholders,
reputation, brand and value-creating activities.
Business Continuity Management (BCM)
Lifecycle The ongoing cycle of activities of the
business continuity programme, that build
organizational resilience.
Business Continuity Management System
(BCMS)Part of the overall management system
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,that establishes, implements, operates,
monitors, reviews, maintains and improves
business continuity.
Business continuity plan (BCP) Documented
procedures that guide organizations to respond,
recover, resume, and restore to a pre-defined
level of operation following disruption.
Business continuity programme The ongoing
management and governance process
supported by top management and
appropriately resourced to implement and
maintain business continuity management.
Business continuity requirements The time
frames and resources, and capabilities
necessary to continue to deliver the prioritised
products, services, processes, and activities
following a disruption.
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, Business impact analysis (BIA) The process of
analysing activities and the effect that a
business disruption might have upon them.
Competence The ability to apply knowledge
and skills to achieve intended results.
Continual improvement A recurring activity to
enhance performance.
Crisis A situation with a high level of
uncertainty that disrupts the core activities
and/or credibility of an organization and
requires urgent action.
Design (PP4) The Professional Practice within
the business continuity management lifecycle
that identifies and selects appropriate solutions
to determine how continuity can be achieved in
the event of an incident.
Embedding (PP2) The Professional Practice
that defines how to integrate business
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