Glossary · Business continuity
BCMS (Business Continuity Management System)
The management system that prepares an organisation to keep critical operations running during disruptions and to recover quickly, defined by ISO 22301.
Put the term into practice: Business continuity
A Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) is the framework that helps an organisation anticipate disruptions, protect its most important activities, and resume them within agreed timeframes. ISO 22301 is the international standard for a BCMS.
The system is built on a Business Impact Analysis that ranks activities by urgency, recovery objectives such as RTO and RPO, documented continuity plans, and regular exercises that prove the plans actually work when tested.
