Business Continuity Management
PostgraduateTAS-HSP6022025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,894
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Business Continuity Management
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Comprehend theoretical approaches in business continuity management.
- Synthesise and apply relevant theoretical perspectives and concepts to provide solutions to business continuity management.
- Produce written work on business continuity management that is clearly communicated and meets scholarly and industry requirements.
- Overview of Business Continuity Management (BCM)
- BCM Framework
- BCM Strategy and Policy
- BCM and Risk Management
- Overview of Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Conducting a BIA
- BC Plan Development
- Linkages to other Systems
- IT Disaster Recovery
- Testing BCM
- Implementing BCM
- System Improvement
- Framework Evaluation
Business Continuity Management is the holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organisation and the likely impacts to business operations that may be caused if those threats materialise. This fully online subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of Business Continuity Management. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of Business Continuity Management and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards.
This subject will provide you with the knowledge and skills to translate and communicate theoretical concepts in Business Continuity Management to tangible outputs for industry. This subject, together with protective security, crisis management, and the ability to lead resilient organisations, are collectively the underpinning foundation for enhancing organisational resilience. The subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with these subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.
- Multiple Choice Online Quiz (15%)
- Write a 2,500 word discussion paper to support the development or revision of a business continuity management system (50%)
- Multiple Choice Online Quiz (15%)
- Write a 1,000 word report that describes a specific impact analysis for a business continuity disruption. (20%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-ORG-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience
- TAS-GSM-MAS-2025 - Master of Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Elective
- TAS-GLS-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: Independent learning, 8 hours, weekly; Online class, 1 hour, 2x per semester.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience
PostgraduateTAS-ORG-GCE
Master of Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
PostgraduateTAS-GSM-MAS
Graduate Diploma of Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
PostgraduateTAS-GLS-GDI