Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)

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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.
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(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)