Business Continuity Management System: A Comprehensive Approach to Dealing with Crisis in Organizations

Nowadays, complexity of organizations have significantly increased with enhancement of supply chain, outsourcing rate of activities and dependence to information systems. As a resultof these changes, not only the likelihood of operations confounding risks have increased but their intensity has been more destructive. On the other hand, narrowing the competition field in the business environment, has led organizations towards the establishment and using the different management systems. Business Continuity Management system is a comprehensive management system which with identifying possible disorders and their impacts on the organization helps to increase elasticity of organization against any disorder. This system is considered as part of an organization integrated management system which addresses construction, implement, operation, monitoring, review, maintenance and development of business continuity topics in organization. This study is an overview of different aspects of business continuity management by using various sources. In this study, at first we briefly review the basic concepts and history of business continuity management. Then based on existing national and international approaches which is developed for establishing of a business continuity management system, an efficient structure for implementing of this system in the organizations has been proposed.