BSBSTR803 Establish business continuity management strategies weeks 1-8
Welcome to the first unit of the Grad Dip of Strategic Leadership for 2025 at NSW Higher Education: Establish business continuity management strategies
This first unit deals with business continuity - planning for potential disruptions to a firm's operations and projects, so that if a disruptive event occurs, the business or project can withstand/ survive the impact of it.
We'll start our discussion today by distinguishing between a crisis management plan and a business continuity plan.
Article 1A: Crisis Management Plan vs Business Continuity Plan
We'll look at a Harvard Business Review Case Study to finish our session today.
HBR Case Study: The CEO Suffered a Breakdown. Now What? Jan Feb25
The first seven week's workshop materials can be found here:
BSBSTR803 workshop notes weeks 1-7
We are going to build a case study in this unit - Eskandari Bicycle Co.
the website is: Eskandari Bicycle Co website
In week 6 we'll use quite a few online articles.
The links are:
Why hackers want your personal information
Protect your customers information
Securing customer personal data
Optus data breach article from the Guardian
How to avoid a disaster like the optus breach
In week 7, we'll start by discussing a few recent Australian data breaches
Article A: Prominent Sydney law firm hit with cyberattack 13Mar25
Article B: Urgently investigating SMH 19Feb25
We'll then develop a framework to prevent, prepare, respond and review our response to a data breach as one type of adverse event our business will need to survive.
Article C: data breach investigation best practices
We can get a lot of help from the Commonwealth Government's Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. We'll review their advice, available on their webpages or in a pdf they have produced.
The online resource: Data breach preparation and response
or Article D: Data breach preparation and response
In week 8 we will build a simple cyber attack business continuity plan.
Business Continuity Plan – cyber attack
We'll also look at a template we will use in the assessment task next week to extend this know-how to build a business continuity plan for all kinds of adverse events/ risks, not just IT ones.
EBC Business continuity plan template
We'll discuss Assessment task 1: 10 questions.
You will need to read the Learner Resources for the unit.
In week 9, we will prepare a business continuity plan for Eskandari Bicycle Co.
Some documents we will use are here:
EBC Business Continuity Plan for Assessment 2
BSBSTR803 Assessment Tasks
There are assessment three tasks on the LMS. You will need to complete all three:
- BSBSTR803 - Assessment 1
- BSBSTR803 - Assessment 2
- BSBSTR803 - Assessment 3
Assessment 1: Written activity
Upload your answers in each of the answer boxes for the 10 questions. The content you need for each answer is in the Learner Resources for the unit (on the prezi) on the LMS.
Assessment 3: Short answer questions
Upload your answers in each of the answer boxes for the 15 questions. The content you need for each answer is in the Learner Resources for the unit (on the prezi) on the LMS.
Assessment 2: Practical Activity
Do not upload content in any of the three Assessment 2 boxes yet. I need to discuss the changes to Assessment 2 with Daniel and they need to be made on the LMS before you submit anything.
This content on the LMS for Assessment 2 needs to be amended so that there will be one place for you to submit your documents.
Please prepare and have ready to submit the following document:
Assessment 2 Template for Business Continuity Plan
We prepared a sample plan in the workshops in weeks 9 and 10.
Assessment 2 EBC Business continuity plan workgroup sample
You will also need to fill in and have ready to submit the following checklist:
EBC Business continuity audit checklist
Your assessor will also fill in, sign and give you the following checklist to upload:
BSBSTR803 Assessment 2 Assessor checklist
Once I have finalised the assessment instructions on the LMS, I will ask you to submit these items as the unit's assessment tasks.
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