Advanced BCMS Governance and Improvement Course

Name: Advanced BCMS Governance and Improvement Training Course
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Govern, assure, and improve continuity policy, analysis, solutions, plans, validation, performance, audit, and review.

Advanced BCMS Governance and Improvement Course

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Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom
Cities: Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Amsterdam, Dubai, Barcelona and more
Next session: 12 – 16 October 2026, Paris
Average fee: 5,800 €

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Advanced BCMS Governance and Improvement Training Course

Overview

Advanced BCMS Governance and Improvement Training Course is a five-day course for continuity managers, BCMS owners, assurance specialists, risk leaders, and sponsors who leave with a BCMS Governance and Improvement File. Participants connect business continuity policy, business impact analysis, risk assessment, continuity solutions, plans, validation, and performance evaluation within one management system. The course uses internal audit, management review, corrective action, and continual improvement to turn findings into governed decisions. Agile Leaders Training Center presents advanced BCMS governance as an assurance and improvement discipline.

Who Should Attend

Business continuity functions responsible for establishing, operating, and improving a BCMS
Internal assurance functions responsible for evaluating system conformity and effectiveness
Enterprise risk functions responsible for connecting disruption risks with continuity choices
Operational resilience functions responsible for critical activities, dependencies, and recovery capabilities
System sponsors responsible for policy, resources, oversight, and management decisions
Departmental continuity functions responsible for plans, exercises, and improvement actions

The course assumes participants already contribute to continuity analysis, planning, assurance, or governance and leaves out certification preparation, emergency-service command, and technical disaster recovery configuration.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that govern continuity capabilities through a management system.

Business continuity, enterprise risk, internal audit, and governance
Operations, technology, facilities, supply chain, and corporate services
Banking, telecommunications, insurance, and professional services
Energy, manufacturing, transportation, and utilities
Healthcare, education, hospitality, and public services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze BCMS context, scope, policy, governance, and interested-party needs
Evaluate business impact analysis and risk assessment evidence
Compare continuity solutions and plan structures against recovery requirements
Apply exercise and performance-evaluation methods to validate capability
Build internal audit, management review, and corrective-action evidence
Prioritize continual improvement through risk, findings, and performance

Course Agenda

Day 1: BCMS Governance and Direction

ISO 22301:2019 BCMS Requirement Map
Organizational Context and Interested-Party Register
BCMS Scope and Boundary Statement
Business Continuity Policy and Objective Tree
Leadership Responsibility and Governance Matrix

Day 2: Analysis and Continuity Solutions

Business Impact Analysis Quality Review
Disruption Risk Assessment Evidence Matrix
Prioritized Activity and Dependency Map
Continuity Solution Evaluation Grid
Resource Requirement and Capability Register

Day 3: Plans and Validation

Business Continuity Plan Architecture
Response Structure and Escalation Protocol
Exercise Program and Scenario Design Method
Plan Maintenance and Change Control Log
Exercise Observation and Validation Record

Day 4: Assurance and Improvement

BCMS Performance Indicator Catalogue
Monitoring and Measurement Evidence Dashboard
Internal Audit Program and Sampling Plan
Management Review Decision Pack
Corrective Action and Continual Improvement Tracker

Day 5: BCMS Governance Practice

Exercise: Diagnose a BCMS Scope and Policy Gap
Exercise: Evaluate Analysis and Solution Evidence
Exercise: Review a Continuity Plan and Exercise Record
Exercise: Convert Audit Findings into Improvement Actions
Capstone Exercise: BCMS Governance and Improvement File

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to apply advanced BCMS governance across operating settings.

Suggested activity: assess the scope and policy evidence of a banking BCMS.
Suggested activity: review impact, dependency, and continuity-solution evidence for a manufacturing operation.
Suggested activity: evaluate a healthcare continuity exercise and record capability findings.
Suggested activity: prepare a management review decision pack for a telecommunications provider.

FAQs

Who suits advanced BCMS governance training, and what does it assume?

It suits continuity, assurance, risk, resilience, and governance professionals and assumes experience contributing to analysis, planning, exercising, audit, performance review, or management decisions.

How does advanced BCMS governance differ from introductory business continuity training?

Advanced BCMS governance evaluates system effectiveness, assurance evidence, management decisions, and continual improvement, while introductory training concentrates on core continuity concepts and basic system components.

How does business impact analysis support BCMS governance?

Business impact analysis supports BCMS governance by identifying prioritized activities, impact over time, dependencies, resource needs, and recovery requirements for continuity decisions and assurance.

What evidence belongs in a BCMS management review?

BCMS management review evidence includes performance results, exercise outcomes, audit findings, changes in context and risk, corrective actions, resource issues, and decisions on improvement.

How should continual improvement be governed in a BCMS?

Continual improvement should be governed through traceable findings, assigned corrective actions, priority criteria, responsible owners, due controls, effectiveness checks, and management oversight.

Conclusion

Participants leave with a BCMS Governance and Improvement File containing the scope statement, policy tree, analysis reviews, solution grid, plan architecture, validation record, indicator catalogue, audit plan, management review pack, and improvement tracker. The file turns dispersed continuity evidence into structured assurance decisions. It supports system maintenance, accountable corrective action, and prioritized improvement.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Singapore	Week 32, 2027 9 – 13 August 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Amsterdam	Week 33, 2027 16 – 20 August 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Paris	Week 34, 2027 23 – 27 August 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Frankfurt	Week 34, 2027 23 – 27 August 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Langkawi	Week 34, 2027 29 August – 2 September 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,000
Athens	Week 36, 2027 6 – 10 September 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,700
Chicago	Week 36, 2027 12 – 16 September 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€12,000
Kuala Lumpur	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,200
Abu Dhabi	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,700
Istanbul	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 1 October 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Prague	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 1 October 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,000
Phuket	Week 39, 2027 3 – 7 October 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,000
London	Week 41, 2027 11 – 15 October 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Berlin	Week 41, 2027 11 – 15 October 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700

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What does this course cover?

OverviewAdvanced BCMS Governance and Improvement Training Course is a five-day course for continuity managers, BCMS owners, assurance specialists, risk leaders, and sponsors who leave with a BCMS Governance and Improvement File. Participants connect business continuity policy, business impact analysis, risk assessment, continuity solutions, plans, validat…

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Advanced BCMS Governance and Improvement Course