title: Implementing business continuity management systems and sharing best practices at a European bank.
abstract: This paper provides an overview of the methodology applied by the Alpha Bank Group in order to implement a business continuity management (BCM) programme to its parent company (Alpha Bank SA), as well as to its subsidiaries in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, UK and Ukraine. It also reviews the problems faced, how they were overcome and the lessons learned. When implementing a BCM programme in a large organisation, it is very important to follow the methodology described by BCM standard ISO 22301, otherwise the business continuity plan is unlikely to work efficiently or comply with the business recovery requirements, as well as with the requirements of other interested parties, such as customers, regulatory authorities, vendors, service providers, critical associates, etc.
authors.affiliation: Alpha Bank, 78 Aiolou Street, 105 59 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Stelios
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aronis
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stratopoulos
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016730:Program Development; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration*