This year DRIE, CCEP, BCI Canada, Canadian Red Cross and DRI CANADA have teamed together to promote Business Continuity Awareness Week. Business Continuity Awareness Weeks (BCAW) - March 22nd, 2010 to March 26th, 2010. The theme for BCAW 2010 is “Why Business Continuity”.
For business continuity management (BCM) professionals, this is a rhetorical question given the lengthy series of events from the last ten years: Y2K, 9/11, SARS, the August 2004 major electricity outage, the avian flu, the current H1N1 pandemic, the global financial sector meltdown and the many “local” incidents which have affected our organizations, just to name a few.
The key message associated with this theme is that BCM helps create the organizational resilience necessary for businesses to manoeuvre through the obstacles to business longevity.
The BCI organises forum
meetings in South Australia
and the Northern Territory region in
conjunction with the Business Continuity Management Information Exchange Australia
(www.bcmie-australia.org),
a forum of the Disaster Recovery Institute International. Meetings are
usually held at venues in the Adelaide CBD and run from 4.00pm to 6.00pm.
