Written and compiled by BCI members, with these guidelines we aim to provide a generic framework for successful Business Continuity Management by providing an approach, which a BC practitioner can use to inform his/her own business programme.

The BCI Good Practice Guidelines are designed to provide assistance in understanding through the application of six Business Continuity Management principles.

With these six principles, the process and terminology of Business Continuity Management is explained plus recommendations for good practice are provided. 

The guidelines aim to be applicable to all organisations, regardless of size or industry sector, and are intended for use by business continuity management practitioners, risk managers auditors and regulators.

The first BCI Good Practice Guidelines provided the first coherent and comprehensive method for the management of a business continuity program and was produced by a working group of business continuity practitioners and edited by Dr David.J.Smith.