Learn in the textbookManagement Cycles and Business Continuity
DefinitionBCM (business continuity management) is the management activity that repeats, from normal times onward, drawing up the BCP, keeping its preparations in place, education and training, and inspection and review, so that the plan actually works in an emergency.
ExplanationA plan assumes the organization and systems as they were when it was written, so left alone it drifts away from reality. Finding weak points in the procedures through drills and revising the BCP for organizational changes and new risks keeps the plan effective.
AnalogyIt is like not stopping at writing the blackout note, but also checking the flashlight batteries, switching off the lights once a year to try it out, and rewriting whatever fell short.
Memory hookThe M in Business Continuity Management is "management". Read it as the name of an activity you keep running.