This seminar organised by SICC and supported by SPRING Singapore and the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), aims to highlight the importance and critical role of Business Continuity Management (BCM) in an organisation's Enterprise Risk Management framework, how companies can build a sustainable BCM model that adheres to recognised standards, and the government subsidies available under the National BCM Programme for companies that wish to embark on the BCM programme.

Featuring speakers from SICC members, the seminar will enable participants to learn about the rationale and requirements for BCM-readiness from the subject experts. Participants will also receive first-hand insights into how a company has developed a BCM model using current global standards.

Time	Programme
8.00am – 8.30am	Registration and Breakfast
8.30am – 8.40am	Opening address Mr Phillip Overmyer, Chief Executive, SICC
8.45am – 9.15am	Presentation on the National BCM Programme Mr Victor Tay, Director, Services & Biomedical, Industry Development Group, SPRING Singapore
9.15am – 9.45am	Presentation on Integrating BCM and the Enterprise Risk Management Framework Mr Gary Daniel Chia, Executive Director, KPMG Singapore
9.45am – 10.00am	Break
10.00am – 10.30am	Presentation by on Building Resilience: Building aSS540 Compliant Model Mr Clifford Seow, Director, Crisis Asia Pte Ltd
10.30am – 11.00am	Experience sharing on developing a BCM Model Mr Ooi Chee Kong Manager, Human Resources, Jason Electronics Pte Ltd
11.00am – 11.30am	Panel Q&A

Key Highlights

INTEGRATING BCM AND THE ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT (ERM) FRAMEWORK

A sustainable Enterprise Risk Management framework helps organisations achieve the desired state of risk management, add business value and achieve competitive advantage. Business Continuity Management forms an integral and critical part of the framework, by enabling companies to react and recover from interruptions to their business functions. By identifying and proactively addressing risks and opportunities, organisations protect and create value for their stakeholders. The inter-dependency of organisations in today's business environment means that business risks are not limited to internal operations. More than often, disruptions to one player in the industry create a ripple effect on other companies. Therefore, industry-wide exercises would add to assuring business continuity readiness of organisations with respect to supply chain, outsourced activities, customer service etc.

BUSINESS RESILIENCE: BUILDING A SS540 COMPLIANT MODEL

Business resilience has to be multi-dimensional to match the diversity of risks across threats, vulnerabilities and values-at-risk of a project, an organization process or an organization itself. A large part of these risks are operational in nature and can disrupt important business processes or transactions. Business continuity management provides a systematic model to identify, analyze, evaluate and treat these disruption risks so that the disruption risk-return relationship becomes favourable to the organization. But how do we even start? Global standards provide a useful primer on the requirements for a good business continuity management system (BCMS). This talk provides a primer of global standards and guidelines in business continuity. But what practical benefits does BCM bring to my organization? A short case study on BCM application provides a snapshot of how each stage of the BCM process can yield tangible benefits for the organization. Finally, this talk provides guidance on how you can build a resilience model that is scalable and forward compatible with all the major BCM standards available today.

DEVELOPING A BCM MODEL – EXPERIENCE SHARING BY JASON ELECTRONICS

Jason Electronics (Pte) Ltd has been serving the marine electronics industry for three decades. Jason Electronics specializes in distribution and servicing of marine communication and navigations equipments. Today the company has established itself under the Jason Group of Companies comprising Jason Electronics, Jason Venture, and Jason Asia with regional operations in Malaysia, China, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. Being recognized as one of the well-established SME in the marine electronics industry, there are two crucial keys which are hold firmly by Jason Electronics to sustain its business reputation: Quality and Continuity. The company recognises the importance of Business Continuity Management (BCM) as an assurance to its customers of the company’s efforts to remain resilient and continue serving its customers even during crisis. Jason Electronics’ commitment in business continuity is materialized with its certification of TR19 in 2005; and currently the company is moving forward to level up its Business Continuity Management in accordance to SS540 through SPRING-SBF National BCM programme.

Registration:

Members interested to register please send details including name, company, email, and contact number to Ms Sopia Bte Noordin at sopia@sicc.com.sg

Closing Date :
15th July 2009

Registration is on a "first-come-first-served" basis