Over 150 Resilience Professionals followed the invitation of the BCI UAE Chapter to learn and mingle at this year's BCI Middle East Awards Ceremony and Conference in Abu Dhabi.

Speakers gave insights about AI pipelines for Cyber Security, the challenges of a corporate resilience programme as a supplier to the Oil & Gas industry, implementing a resilience programme in a challenging environment, and also geopolitical updates in the GCC.

Congratulations to all 2019 Award Winners.
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Take part in this years' BCI Education Month in September. Find out more about the programme and how you can benefit and get involved.

We wish our clients, partners and their families peace and harmony during the holy month of Ramadan.

A big thank you to our 13 delegates from 9 different countries who attended our certified Business Continuity Management course in Dubai last week. It was our pleasure to work with you on this CBCI Course. Great Effort!

Tim Marjason MBCI has delivered the BCI Good Practice Guidelines Training Course 2018 Edition in Abu Dhabi in July. It was a great pleasure to work with the 12 delegates attending this course.

Follow the trend of our delegates and register for one of our forthcoming Certification Courses and benefit from the post-nominal designation CBCI when successfully passing the examination.

We wish our clients, partners and their families peace and harmony during the holy month of Ramadan.

Marjason Consulting DWC-LLC was approached to develop a Crisis Management framework capability and Plan for Eltizam Group Asset Management in March 2018. We are delighted to have been given the opportunity of working with this progressive organisation as part of their Vision 21 Programme. We are now proud to announce that Eltizam have been trained and exercised in how to respond to crises using their CMP capability. This will serve to protect Eltizam’s clients, partners, assets, the environment and their reputation. We have now handed over the completed CMP to the client for formal sign-off. From L-R: Tim Marjason (Marjason Consulting), Chris Roberts (CEO), Mohammed Alsharaf (COO), Sandra Harsant (QHSE Manager).

The new BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2018 Edition has been launched to reflect the latest developments and trends in Business Continuity and related fields. We are going to deliver the new CBCI Certification Course based on the new GPG 2018 Edition from March onwards. Find out more.

Please download our current training calendar up to July 2018 for all scheduled BCI certified training courses in the region. Contact us for more information.

We wish our clients and their families a prosperous and healthy 2018, filled with success, opportunities and happiness.

For their annual Awareness Workshop and Exercise, Kuwait Finance House invited Crisis Management Subject Matter Expert Tim Marjason MBCI and one of our Crisis Communications consultants to refresh their C Level and tactical support teams knowledge, and facilitate two table top exercises. Led by the CEO, over 40 employees from the KFH HQ office together with colleagues from their Bahrain, Turkey and Malaysia offices attended this engaging and informative session. We look forward to working with this leading bank again soon. Keep up the great work!

Marjason Consulting has delivered several BCI Good Practice Guidelines Training Courses with Examination in 2017. Follow the trend of our delegates and register for one of our forthcoming BCI certified courses and benefit from the post-nominal designation CBCI when successfully passing the examination.

As the Knowledge Partner for the 7th Annual Business Continuity & Emergency Response ME Forum in Muscat, Oman Marjason Consulting delivered the pre-conference BCI Embedding BC Training Course and Tim Marjason was leading the panel discussion on day 2.
Many thanks to the conference organiser Fleming, and the experienced and informative speakers for their insights. Our thanks also to the panel attendees for their tips on how to effectively integrate and communicate across the emergency preparedness disciplines in the event of an incident.

Submit your entry for your chance to win one of these prestigious prizes. The BCI Middle East Awards recognise business continuity and resilience professionals who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry with wisdom, competence, hard work and passion...if you think you are one of them, then enter the awards now!

The 7th Annual Business Continuity & Emergency Response will provide a unique format with one day workshop & one day of conference with practical group tasks & interactive sessions offering the necessary awareness by addressing the challenges & solutions, how to prepare for, respond to, and emerge stronger from any major crisis.

Join us for 'The BCI Embedding Business Continuity Course', certified by the Business Continuity Institute prior the Conference 16th May 2017.

You will learn about Best Practice to build organisational capacity, capability and resilience. All delegates will receive an official certificate of attendance
directly from the BCI.

It was our pleasure to work with this group of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Business Continuity and Risk Management Team this week. All delegates have attended the BCI Good Practice Guidelines Training Course and have taken the examination at the end of the class in order to receive the Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI) and become a certified Business Continuity Management Specialist.

The 2017 Horizon Scan Report showed that once again it is the digital threat that is the greatest concern for resilience professionals.

The biggest threats for organisations in the Middle East are Cyber attack (60%), unplanned IT & telecom outages (36%) and Data breach (36%).

This course is recommended for individuals at middle
and senior management level from all departments
within an organisation. It will be of particular value to
those supporting or performing the role of the Crisis
Management Team (CMT), including Media Communications
from time to time.
Benefit from Tim's extensive expertise and enrol on this course in Lahore or Karachi in February 2017.

Marjason Consulting wishes our clients, partners and their families a resilient, happy and prosperous 2017.

Pakistan State Oil have recently reviewed their Crisis Management Plan and asked Tim Marjason MBCI CBCI to deliver a 1 day workshop in Crisis Management to 20 delegates from PSO in December 2016 in Karachi, Pakistan. In addition to the advanced CM training session, Tim also facilitated a table top exercise incorporating lessons learned from a recent major incident in the Pakistan Oil & Gas sector. Thanks to all the delegates for contributing to an interesting and interactive workshop.

Tim Marjason MBCI CBCI delivered a 5 day certified CBCI course to a group from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in October 2016. Congratulations to all 9 delegates passing the CBCI examination.

Currently on its eighth edition, the Supply Chain Resilience Report is an influential industry resource which tracks the origins, causes and consequences of supply chain disruption across industry sectors and regions worldwide. It also benchmarks business continuity (BC) arrangements in place - including the uptake of insurance - in different organisations which build supply chain resilience. It is one of the most comprehensive, practitioner-led studies in the field.

Our trainer Tim Marjason is delighted with the great results! All delegates from Abu Dhabi Company For Onshore Petroleum Operations (ADCO) successfully passed the BCI Good Practice Guidelines Training Course in October. Congratulations to all delegates.

What are the threats facing your organization? Every year the BCI, in collaboration with BSI, conduct its annual Horizon Scan to assess the threats that business continuity and resilience professionals are most concerned about, and see how those threats differ depending on location, sector, or size of organization. Please take the short survey and be in with a chance of winning a £100 Amazon gift card.

In the first week of October 2016 our associate BCI approved instructor Carlo Loveri delivered the BCI Certification Training Course (CBCI) in Milan, Italy. We are proud to announce that all 4 delegates have passed the examination with Merit – Congratulations to Diego Fossati, Dario Rizzi, Fulvio Felline and Stefano D'Andrea!

We delivered a Business Continuity and Crisis Management Executive and BCM Champions Awareness Session for 55 delegates at KFH in September 2016. Both groups were very engaging which made for a rewarding and satisfying experience for all. Our thanks to the delegates from Kuwait Finance House.

Thank you very much for your good wishes and ongoing support. We are delighted and look forward to working with our existing and prospective clients on further challenging projects.

Marjason Consulting wishes our clients, partners and their families a peaceful and harmonic Ramadan.

Recent disruptions to organisations show us that business continuity management (BCM) is a critical element of organisational resilience.

This Webinar offers a comprehensive overview of Business Continuity Management from a strategic, tactical and operational perspective for any sector and organisation.

It will give attendees a real understanding of the six Professional Practices (PP) of BCM and is ideal for senior representatives who are fairly new to the concept of Business Continuity.

The event featured more than 20 speakers from the region including experts like Saif Saeed Al Qubaisi, General Director at the Regulation & Supervision Bureau, Major Abdulla Ali Ahmed Mohamed Alsagheiry Al Hamoudi, Abu Dhabi Police, Management & Public Safety at the Abu Dhabi Police and Dr. Mohamed Ali Karkoukli, Group Emergency Preparedness Director at SEHA etc.

This years's event once again strengthened the importance of Business Continuity Management and Emergency Preparedness in the region. Tim Marjason MBCI (Managing Director at Marjason Consulting DWC-LLC), Khalid Bahabri (Head of Operational Excellence at NCB Capital, KSA) and Divakar Pandian (Manager Risk Transformation at EY) discussed the 'What is Organisational Resilience and how does this fit in with Business Continuity?' at the panel.

For the first time, the Middle East BCI Awards took place at the end of Day 1 of the conference to recognise the outstanding contributions of business continuity professionals and organisations in the Middle East. Marjason Consulting DWC-LLC sponsored this years' Middle East Continuity and Resilience Professional (Public Sector) - congratulations to Mahmoud Abufarha MBCI.

In times of low oil prices and potential increasing threats and disruption to businesses and organisations, an implemented Business Continuity Management System is key to maintain your critical functions and secure stable revenue. A demonstrable ability to survive and recover from a business disruption or crisis has shown the importance of having a Business Continuity Plan in place. So the benefits and ROI for organisations is proven. Case studies also show the value of implementing a Business Continuity Plan, as a proven strategy to achieve organisational resilience on a day-to-day basis.

Think about the following: What if your ​Business Continuity Plan could actually reduce ongoing costs rather than just be another expensive project to implement?

Many BCM Subject Matter Experts have contributed to the Business Continuity Awareness Week with e-learning modules, webinars, white papers, blogs, podcasts and many more...

Our thanks to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for inviting Tim to deliver an interactive Workshop for their Emerging Leaders & Middle Management ILM Level 3 Programme. The delegates explored the concepts of Organisational Resilience, Business Continuity and Crisis Management. An important part of this workshop was how social media can play a vital role in communicating in this context. As a strategic part of a training week this workshop focused on national UAE BCM standard compliance, why top level buy-in is key and how staff awareness is essential in embedding a BCM programme at ADNOC.

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Talent Management, Training & Capability Development,

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ADNOC

The BCI Middle East Awards recognise the outstanding contribution of business continuity professionals and organisations living in or operating in the Middle East.

Have you been working as a Continuity and Resilience Professional in the Private or Public Sector? Do your achievements deserve to be awarded? Has your organisation or company suffered significantly from the impact of any incident or crisis in 2016, where you have managed to demonstrate resilience? Has your team been working in continuity and resilience within a large organisation, and you've all done a great job over the past year?

Take your chance! Send your application in to receive a BCI Middle East Award at the Fleming 6th Annual Business Continuity & Emergency Response Forum on the 23rd May 2016 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

All winners at the Middle East Awards will be automatically entered into the Global Awards that take place in November 2016 in London.

The deadline to enter your application is 30th March 2016.

'ISACA® was incorporated in 1969 by a small group of individuals who recognized a need for a centralized source of information and guidance in the growing field of auditing controls for computer systems. Today, ISACA has more than 95,000 members worldwide'.(Source: http://www.isacauae.org/public/en/about-us)

The ISACA UAE Chapter was formed in 1997 and has become one of the most active and successful chapters. ISACA hosts member meetings, seminars, conferences and workshops for the promotion and propagation of Information Technology Governance, Information Systems (IS) Audit, IS Security and IS Control in the UAE. The Chapter also hosts regular meetings and seminars designed for both IT Security and Assurance & Audit professionals.

Tim Marjason was invited to talk about Business Continuity Management and Organisational Resilience in a Middle East context. The UAE ISACA members are very aware of the worldwide recognised standards to follow (e.g. ISO), so the themes of organisational resilience and the UAE Business Continuity Management standard AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2015 were of great interest.

Whether business continuity is a part of your job or the company you are working with is thinking about implementing a Business Continuity Management Programme, the GPG Lite is ideal for you as it is a condensed version of the full Good Practice Guidelines, and available to download for free here.

Evolving from emergency response to disaster preparedness.

Learn about the basic principles of organisational resilience and the common attributes that have successfully embraced this concept as a normal part of strategic planning.

• The changing face of international business continuity and crisis management - how are organisations adjusting?
• The new Business Continuity Specification AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2015 - rising to the challenge?
• Supply chain management - before, during and after a crisis
• How do you incorporate BCM into day-to-day operations?

The threat of a prolonged outage and the impact on critical business processes can have major consequences for an energy or utility company. Recent disasters and their associated impact in the Middle East and North Africa have highlighted the importance of system availability, contingency planning and business resilience.
The panel discussion highlighted the basic principles of organisational resilience and the common attributes that have successfully embraced this concept as a normal part of strategic planning.

• The changing face of international business continuity and crisis management - how are organisations adjusting?
• Supply chain management: Before, during and after a crisis
• How do you incorporate BCM into day-to-day operations?

Members of the panel included senior representatives from the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA). Delegates received an update on the new Business Continuity Specification AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2015.