Title: The role of business continuity management in organisational long range planning

Authors: Wei Ning Zechariah Wong, Jianping Shi

Addresses: Atkins, The Axis, 10 Holliday Street, Birmingham, B1 1TF, UK. ' Atkins, The Axis, 10 Holliday Street, Birmingham, B1 1TF, UK

Abstract: Since the early 90s, business continuity management (BCM) has gradually established a foothold as a function and profession within business organisations. Despite its rapid development in the last two decades, BCM, as a discipline and a profession, is still regarded by many as an operational entity of management. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of BCM in corporate long range planning. It critically evaluates a number of typical definitions and derives three key elements of BCM. It then relates the role of BCM in corporate strategic management and proposes a set of strategic skills for business continuity managers in order to execute the BCM programme effectively. Finally, a number of salient points on strategic BCM are proposed to underpin the importance of its role in sustaining organisational performance.

Keywords: strategic management; strategies; business continuity management; BCM; business continuity managers; long range planning; organisational performance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBCRM.2010.035688

International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management, 2010 Vol.1 No.3, pp.247 - 258

Published online: 02 Oct 2010 *

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