Manchester City Council

Business Continuity Management

MBCF Publications, Resources and Templates

The Forum has been set up with a view to an increased awareness of business continuity management in Manchester's business and voluntary sector communities. This can be achieved by providing an increasing resource of information for businesses and voluntary organisations on these internet pages.

Please read on for templates that can be adapted for your organisation, relevant Business Continuity publications and advice for implementing business continuity in your organisation...

Business Continuity Case Studies

Please follow this link to download the first two in a series of Business Continuity Case Studies (PDF, 2.9 MB). These describe how individual organisations have coped with an emergency or other incident affecting them in the past.

Please follow this link to our 'Business Continuity Week 2008' page which includes a further four case studies of business continuity in practise.

We are looking to develop our range of case studies, so if you are willing to help other organisations to plan for disruptions by sharing your experience of dealing with a business continuity incident, please contact us.

Business Continuity Templates

Business Continuity Professionals often strongly discourage the use of templates. This is because every organisation is unique and it is important that business continuity reflects the individual organisation; one size doesn't fit all.

We have produced templates that can be useful when developing business continuity management in your organisation, but we would recommend that you think carefully about the needs of your individual organisation and adapt the templates accordingly.

Follow the links below to download the relevant template:

Watch this space for further additions...

Business Continuity Publications

Information relating to business continuity is quite readily available. We have provided the following documents for download, but this is by no means an exhaustive list of useful publications:

The 10 Local Authorities in Greater Manchester work in partnership to improve resilience throughout the region. Together they have produced the following documents:

Manchester Business Continuity Forum Newsletters

The Business Continuity Forum published its first quarterly newsletter on the 1st April 2007. The regular newsletter contains useful information about Business Continuity issues in Manchester and provides a 'useful links' page, where you can find out more.

To access our archive of previous newsletters, please use the following links:

Archive: Presentations from the Forum Launch (February 2007)

Keynote speakers addressed various issues around Business Continuity Management and have kindly made their presentations from the day available for you to download:

Speaker	Topic
Dr. Nick Gent, Consultant In Health Protection, Health Protection Agency	Planning for Pandemic Flu (.ppt, 1.2mb)
Gary Donlon, Director, Jermyn Consulting	The Importance Of Business Continuity To An Organisation (.ppt, 0.2mb)
Kathy Oldham, Assistant Director of Civil Contingencies, Manchester City Council	Emergency Planning and Business Continuity At Manchester City Council (.ppt, 2.5mb)
Mark Robinson, Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police	Business Continuity (.ppt, 4.0mb)
Ian Griffiths, Business Continuity Risk Manager, Co-operative Financial Services	About The Manchester Business Continuity Forum (.ppt, 2.6mb)
Phil Causer, MIFireE	Buncefield: Lessons for Business and the Voluntary Sector , notes for delegates (.doc, 1.4mb)

Feedback

We would be interested to hear your feedback on these resources....

Were they useful? If not, how can we improve them? Is there any additional information you would expect to see on these pages? Have you seen/written a resource that we should include?

Please email your comments to:

business.continuity@manchester.gov.uk