Area Business Continuity Management or Area BCM

1. Area Business Continuity Management or Area BCM Area BCM is a cyclic process of understanding risks and impacts, determining common strategy of risk management, developing the Area BCP, implementing the planned actions and monitoring to continuously improve the Area BCM System, in coordination among stakeholders including individual enterprises, industrial area managers, local authorities and administrator of the infrastructures as well as communities, in order to improve the resilience of local economy to disasters. Notes: Area BCP then designates a framework and direction of coordinated damage mitigation measures and recovery actions of stakeholders in order for business continuation of the industrial area as a whole. Related Term: Business Continuity Planning Source: Japan International Cooperation Agency