CBCI (Business Continuity Certifications) case studies
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The CBCI - Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute - is a professional certification offered by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), a global membership association for business continuity and resilience professionals. The BCI describes itself as serving over 10,000 members in more than 120 countries, and it lists the CBCI among its certification and training offerings alongside introductory courses, specialism courses and its Good Practice Guidelines. The credential is designed for practitioners who need a structured, discipline-wide grounding in business continuity rather than a single specialism: people entering the field, staff with continuity responsibilities added to another role, and experienced managers who want a recognised benchmark for their knowledge. Candidates should expect the syllabus to follow the professional lifecycle rather than any one standard clause-by-clause. The CBCI case studies are 5 cases and about 4,609 words.
1The programme nobody owns
Meridian Freight runs 900 staff across six depots and turns over £180m. Nine months ago it appointed a business continuity coordinator who reports to the Head of Facilities.
850 words, about 4 min2The plan on the shelf
Northgate Bank has 4,500 staff. Its continuity plan is rewritten each year by a three-person head-office team and published as a 90-page PDF.
873 words, about 4 min3The BIA that says everything is critical
Calder Shared Services delivers finance, payroll and HR processing to eight member organisations from two sites, with 520 staff. Its first business impact analysis has just closed: 62 of 78 activities were rated 'critical' with a recovery time objective of four hours.
958 words, about 5 min4Choosing a recovery strategy before the peak-season freeze
Ardent Home is an online retailer with £95m revenue, 60% of it in November and December. Orders run through a SaaS order-management platform; stock is held and picked by a single third-party logistics provider in one leased warehouse.
948 words, about 5 min5Validation that proves nothing
Bracken Foods employs 700 people at one production site and supplies three national supermarket chains. Continuity is validated by an annual desk-based tabletop with the same six managers.
980 words, about 5 min