Business Continuity in the Supply Chain – Workshop from BCI
The Business Continuity Institute will be bringing the BCI Workshop Business Continuity in the Supply Chain to North America in February and again in May, 2011. The workshop will provide a timely insight into the value of establishing strong working relationships with suppliers and partners to ensure resilience and continuity of service, so important in this highly competitive world.
The workshop will move around North America as follows:
- New York City – 1st February, venue to be confirmed
- Dallas – 4th February. Sponsored by Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Jacobs Engineering
- San Jose – 8th February. Sponsored by eBay.
- Seattle – 5th May. Sponsored by Microsoft.
- Calgary – 10th May. Sponsored by IBM.
- Toronto – 12th May. Venue to be confirmed
The workshops will be interactive events consisting of a series of presentations given by practitioner experts in their field. These will be followed by exercises which will provide delegates with a comprehensive overview of the key steps in enhancing resilience standards with critical suppliers and encouraging them to adopt Business Continuity Management best practice through greater collaboration.
The following areas, and more, will be covered in each workshop:
- Identifying critical suppliers
- Identifying Risks Within the Supply Chain
- Suppliers Crisis communications plans.
- Joint exercising.
- Supply Chain and the requirements of BS25999.
- Case studies
- Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for Mitigating Supply Chain Risks
- Ongoing Management of Supply Chain.
For more information, please visit http://www.thebci.org/supplychainroadshow.html. To access the booking form, go to http://www.thebci.org/genericbookingform.html
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