Business Continuity Management (BCM)

The program prepares graduates as leaders who are able to manage a multidisciplinary team in the application of standard, ethical, practices, procedures, and technologies to identify threats, assess risk, and implement organisational, interagency, business continuity solutions to enhance resilience of the nation.

The program was developed to meet the educational and security goals of the Abu Dhabi Plan. Specifically, in the education sector, the program empowers students through improving and enhancing their capacities and skills; provides a driving and supporting environment for research, sciences and technology; and promotes the system and culture of innovation. For the security sector, the program qualifies employees for maintaining of security and safety; and enhancing the cooperation and collaboration in various national security scopes and area.

The Business Continuity Management program addresses the whole life cycle of business and organisational continuity planning, operation, and enhancement. Courses in the program cover organisational support and development of plans to support the resilience of the whole of the UAE. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, simulation exercises, and applied real-world scenarios, students learn team organisation, professional ethics, interagency operations, and resilience through the core principles of contemporary relevance, integration, cooperation, multi-agency coordination, and interoperability. Graduates are leaders who contribute to the safety, security, defence, emergency preparedness, and crisis management (SSDEC) for resilience of the nation.

• Have relevant technological skills, knowledge, and abilities for employment as a manager in the SSDEC sector.
• Work, lead, and communicate effectively in a team to achieve common goals.
• Apply standards, ethical practices, procedures, and technologies to collect information, conduct risk assessment, and develop effective programs.
• Implement organisational, interagency solutions to strengthen the SSDEC community and build national resilience capacities.
• Expand knowledge and capabilities through continuing education, certification, and other lifelong learning opportunities.
• Fulfil civic duties and responsibilities through local, national, or global service.

• Demonstrate knowledge of principles, theory and frameworks applicable to solving problems related to organizational business continuity management.
• Apply research methodologies and techniques to identify the broader role that organisational business continuity management plays in the resilience of the nation and society as a whole.
• Analyse the organisational, legal, social and ethical problems relevant to organisational business continuity management and formulate resilience-based solutions.
• Communicate effectively through written and oral methods comprehensive risk management practices as the basis for developing business continuity management programs.
• Work independently in a collaborative setting to generate innovative solutions for complex crisis situations within business continuity management contexts.
• Take responsibility for self-improvement to foster a life-long learning culture.
• Apply business continuity knowledge, skills and abilities including the ability to synthesize different or conflicting ideas to formulate effective data driven outcomes.

Semester One