Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)

1. Business Continuity Management System or in short, BCMS, is a Management System for Business Continuity Management (BCM). It establishes, implements, operates, monitors, reviews, maintains and improves business continuity. BL-B-5 Click to know more BCM Institute's Professional Training and Certification BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 1: Project Management CL 2A: Intermediate (Audit) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 1: Project Management CL 1B: Foundation (BC) Click to know more about expert level training (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

A Manager’s Guide to ISO 22301 Standard for Business Continuity Management System

2. Part of the overall management system that establishes, implements, operate, monitors, reviews, maintains and improve business continuity.

Notes: An example is a Business Continuity Management audit, it is seen as a method by which procedures and documentation are measured against pre-agreed (BCM) standards.

(Source: ISO 22301:2012 – Societal Security – Business Continuity Management Systems - Requirements)- clause 3.5

3. That part of the overall management system that establishes, implements, operates, monitors, reviews, maintains and improves business continuity.

(Source: AE/HSC/NCEMA 7000:2012)