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Business Resilience Fundamentals Overview

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Benefits of Business Resilience Fundamentals

For Individuals

  • Involvement in the emerging Resilience Professional community.
  • Applicable to all sectors, transferable knowledge.
  • Enhances the credentials of anyone wishing to enhance their own performance or take up a leadership position.
  • Supports a better working environment for individuals by creating more autonomy, mastery and purpose, thus improving motivation.
  • Certified professionals are sought after for roles such as Business Continuity Manager, Risk Analyst, Resilience Officer and Operations.

For Organizations

  • It will benefit organisations that use an Investment Committee, Transformation, Development, P30 organisation, Programme, Change or Project Management teams.
  • Enables the refreshing of their Product and Service portfolio/s, improve Processes and Practices, and adopt a more professional business culture.
  • Be early adopters of a new category of employees with a Resilience Professional qualification.
  • Enables organisations to implement the model which improves how to anticipate, assess and address risks across all levels.

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    Study materials

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    Business Resilience a practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace
    Book (English)
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    David Roberts, Islam Choudhury, Serhiy Kovela, Sheila Roberts & Jawwad Tanvir

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    Learn the fundamentals of the Business Resilience Framework to discover how to build and enhance organizational resilience

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    Brilliant course to bring awareness of what is required for business resilience, to lay the foundation and to get you thinking of where you are now and where you want to be, both individually and in the team you are currently operating.

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    I was fortunate to be a part of this really educational course, which gave me a thorough understanding of the principles, cycle, and elements of business resilience. Brilliant authors and instructors, deserve praise. Such a massive, massive amount of knowledge!

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    The business resilience course provides a good insight as to how organizations can continue to make progress and excel during hard times like Covid-19. The various implementation strategies make it easy to understand how the framework can be implemented within an organization with existing processes and how the frameworks and domains can be adapted to suit individual organizational needs.

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    The course is very helpful to give a fundamental understanding as to how the Business Resilience Framework can be implemented in today's VUCA world.

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    Business Resilience is an important factor for business continuity and success. The emphasis on progress is often neglected. Business Resilience Framework provides an opportunity for organizations to formally implement structured, yet agile process to be more adaptable and gain a competitive edge.

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    Videos

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    APMG Partner Spotlight: What is Business Resilience?

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    What is Business Resilience Framework (BRF) and Why You Should Use It

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    Business Resilience v Business Continuity | Business Resilience with David Roberts and Serhiy Kovela

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    What is Business Resilience? | Business Resilience with David Roberts and Serhiy Kovela

    | 2 minutes 57 seconds

    Leading the Implementation of the Business Resilience Framework (BRF) by ResilienceProfessionals

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    Risk and Change Management | Business Resilience with Sheila and David Roberts

    | 4 minutes 5 seconds

    SFIA

    The SFIA Framework is the global common reference for skills and competency for the digital world.

    This APMG certification has been informally mapped against the SFIA Framework to indicate the skills that are addressed and referenced by the certification. Although it is not yet possible to claim this digital badge, the indicative skills can be used to plan your professional development through assessing the skills you have and the skills you need for the role you want.

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    SFIA elements this would be useful for (development)

    Generic attribute Influence up to level 7, Generic attribute Competence up to level 7, Continuity Management up to level 6

    FAQs

    Business Resilience facilitates an innovative, efficient and customer value led culture, achieved through proven practical guidance, tools and models, such as the Progress @ Pace model.

    It provides a unique PACE Culture to sustain an organization through disruptive or VUCA conditions; and when merged with RESILIENCE Foundations and the PROGRESS Cycle, a high-performance environment is created where organizations can deliver Progress @ Pace.

    The examination forms part of the Business Resilience Fundamentals course. The course and certification are aimed at organizational leaders, practicing managers in project & programme management, and others with an interest in building organizational resilience.

    The Business Resilience Fundamentals exam is currently only available in English.

    For individuals studying with an accredited training organization, Foundation style courses are generally delivered over 3 days. It is well worth investigating with individual providers, as some will offer tailored, online, or blended learning solutions.

    No, the Business Resilience Fundamentals exam is only available as closed book.

    The Business Resilience Fundamentals certificate does not expire.

    Pass marks for the Business Resilience Fundamentals exam is 25/50 (50%).

    • Provisional results: After completing the Foundation examination, candidates may receive provisional results either orally from the invigilator or on-screen at the end of an online exam.
    • Official results: Once processed, official results, including a PDF breakdown of marks by syllabus area, are available in the APMG Candidate Portal. Results are issued as the total number of marks achieved.
    • Processing time: Exam papers are usually marked immediately after the exam. APMG formally processes and confirms results via the Candidate Portal within 2 working days of receiving completed papers.
    • Outstanding payments: In exceptional cases, results may be withheld until full payment has been received.

    Once you’ve been notified that you’ve passed your exam, you will have the option to create a digital badge in APMG's Candidate Portal.

    Visit APMG's Candidate Portal, view your exam results and select 'Create Badge'.

    This takes you to the Credly website where the digital badges are hosted. You will be guided through the Credly account creation process.

    Once you have created an account with Credly, log into the account and accept your pending badge.

    Candidates will be able to claim their digital badge and electronic certificate from the APMG Candidate Portal within two business days of their exam result being issued.

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