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Good Practice Guidelines for business continuity

The practitioner corpus, structured around the business continuity lifecycle: two management professional practices and four technical ones. Where ISO 22301 says what to do, the GPG says how to do it day to day, in practitioner language.

Official text

Who it applies to

  • Candidates for BCI individual certifications (CBCI, AMBCI, MBCI)
  • Continuity practitioners
  • Teams building a programme from scratch

Structuring points

  • PP1 Policy and programme management, PP2 Embedding continuity
  • PP3 Analysis, PP4 Design, PP5 Implementation, PP6 Validation
  • The cycle is iterative: validation feeds the next analysis
  • The GPG and ISO 22301 are compatible; practitioners use both

The full business continuity lifecycle, from policy to validation.

Requirements 6