BUSINESS RESILIENCE CONSORTIUM

Overview

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BRC – An Introduction

Business Resilience Consortium (BRC) is a non-profit BCP/DR-focused association of business continuity and disaster recovery professionals.

BRC is dedicated to serving the needs of Business Continuity Management (BCM) professionals in India.

Aspiring BCP/DR professionals will find BRC a good starting point to learn more about the BCM domain.

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BRC Vision

“To emerge as an industry consortium to foster growth, development and promotion of

Business Continuity Management Program in corporate India”

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BRC Goals

1. To promote BCM domain in India.

2. To popularize leading global BCM standards like BS 25999 standard among corporate businesses in India.

3. To serve as a platform for peer networking amongst BCM professionals.

4. To facilitate sharing of insights, experiences and best practices of BCP/DR domains for mutual understanding & benefit.

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BRC Goals (contd…)

5. To serve as think tank on BCP/DR topics & concepts by providing intellectual capital.

6. To nurture academic-industry contacts and exchange of knowledge on BCM.

7. To develop Business Resilience Maturity Model as a framework to measure BCM level prevalent among organizations.

8. To play a key role in bringing leading companies on a common platform for promoting BCM and transform into an industry consortium as envisaged in BRC’s vision statement.

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BRC Mission

To establish BRC as a leading association of BCM professionals in India.

To help industry by promoting BCM initiatives that facilitate in sustaining customer confidence and trust.

To act as a catalyst in the development of new BCM techniques and concepts.

To work with like-minded professional organizations & groups to further the popularity of BCM.

To enable quick crisis coordination across companies through set up of Crisis Management Hotlines.

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Key Activities

Organizing BCM information seminars (basic & advanced). Promoting leading global standards like BS 25999 in corporates through

discussions / meetings. Help build resilience into businesses by leveraging on intellectual capital and

resources of member organizations and individual members. Knowledge sharing of BCM best practices for the benefit of members. Establish Crisis Management Hotline at key cities across India to be useful

during emergencies. Publishing eNewsletter for promoting BCM awareness among professionals. Extend value-added membership to BCM professionals by enrolling them. Conduct Surveys & Research studies in BCM best practices, trends, etc and

release results/reports.

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BRC Projects

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To enable private sector to forge close ties with law enforcement and emergency service agencies on Public-Private Partnership basis to mitigate security threats and for faster recovery efforts

Communication channel to Coordinate & Collaborate during crisis.

Use telephone bridge line for emergency exchange of information

BRC Management Committee

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Pradeep Prasad, IBMPresident, BRC

  Krishna Reddy, Honeywell

Vice President, BRC  Ram Kumar G, Yodlee

General Secretary, BRC 

  Sanjay Mittal, Honeywell

Treasurer, BRC

Sandeep Erat, SumeruJt. Secretary, BRC

  Priyank Kothari, Wipro

Member – BRC Projects 

BRC Advisory Board

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Dhiraj Lal Country Manager, BCMI

  Vidur Kohli

Technology Head, IBM India Pvt Ltd  Vishwas Bondade

General Manager, Condor Networks  Chalam Peddada

Sr. Director – Information Security Fidelity Investments 

  Jayaraj Puthanveedu

Vice President, Manager – Asia Pacific, Global Business Continuity & Recovery Services, Northern Trust

  Subraya Shagritya

Director – IS, Facilities & AdminHoneywell India

  Srinivas Kaza

Head – Information Security, Satyam

BRC is supported by:

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BRC Welcomes Corporate Support

By supporting BRC and its activities, corporates can:  Find an avenue to help nurture BCP/DR best practices in India Enable organizations to evolve & mature towards business resilience. Participate in knowledge exchange of BCM experience. Enhance the knowledge and skills of employees involved in BCP/DR functions  Brand equity enhancement (gaining mindshare among tech professionals) by

participating and sponsoring various activities organized by BRC.

To join BRC as corporate member, please logon to www.brcindia.org/membership.html

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BRC Individual MembershipValue-added benefits including opportunity to:  Get invites for BRC Events and attend them Learn about the current BCM trends & best practices prevalent in Corporate

India Gain knowledge about BCM from the experts Share best practices in BRC events Speak & present papers at BRC events Receive complimentary BRC quarterly Newsletter – Business Resilience Actively contribute to enhance BCM popularity among corporates in India Connect with BCM community & peer Networking among BCM professionals 

To join BRC as individual member, please logon to www.brcindia.org/membership.html

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Thank You!

INDIA’S ONLY ASSOCIATION OF BCM PROFESSIONALS

Working towards establishing

I N D U S T R Y C O N S O R T I U M for B C P

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