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What does the future hold for BCM
professionals?
Charley Newnham MBCIDeborah Higgins MBCI
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Why?
• Business evolves. We wanted to know what’s changed for Business Continuity Professionals, and what’s likely to change. So we asked you.
• Opportunities change. Career paths most open to us aren’t static. We wanted to know your career desires and the opportunities you have or can create. So we asked you.
• Priorities change. Things become more or less important over time. We wanted to know what work activities you’re prioritising, and what the future trends will be. So we asked you.
What?
We asked you about what the future holds for BCM professionals, and how you’re approaching it. We focussed on gathering global, quantitative information.
About the survey
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BCI membership
Delivering in-house BCM?
*Not all are 100% BCM, many have wider roles
Average hours per week
Sector
*<4% = responses included in ‘Other’
Gender Age rangeCountry
741responses analysed
Who responded?
UK 40%
USA & Canada 20%
Europe 12%
Australia & New Zealand 10%
Middle East & Africa 8%
Asia 7%
South America 4%
Yes 85%
No 15%Professional Services 27%
Financial & Insurance 24%
Other* 22%
Public service & defence 12%
IT & Communications 9%
Health & Social Care 4%
Female 28%
Male 72%
Below 25 0.3%
26-35 13.8%
36-45 29.0%
46-55 31.0%
56-65 21.2%
Above 65 2.8%
Prefer not to say 1.9%
30 hours or less 5%
31-40 hours 36%
41-50 hours 46%
51-60 hours 11%
Greater than 60 hours 2%
BCI membership noted 62%
BCI membership not noted 38%
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016Tweet #Hire2Retire
78% degree
14% Post-grad
Memberships and qualifications
What academic qualifications have we got?
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016
28% Masters
2% PhD
Post-school qualifications by country
• UK: 38% (UK Office of National Statistics, 2013)
• US: 28% (US Census Bureau, 2014)
• Australia: 29% (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
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62% BCI
11% IT/InfoSec
14% Risk
Management
Memberships and qualifications
8% Emergency
Planning
What other qualifications and memberships have you got?
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016
6% Security
What do you want?*
*We didn’t ask about your desired academic qualifications, but we wish we had!
0%5%
10%15%20%25%30%35%
BCI related Risk IT /Information
Security
EmergencyPlanning
Security
Desired memberships and qualifications
66% seeking
more
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What’s going to become more important?
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016
42% Being seen as a BCM expert will
become even more important
Around more ‘traditional’ elements of BCM, who said these will be more important?
37%
48%
56% 55%58%
55%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
BCM Exercising BCMplans
Crisis mgtplanning
Exercising crisisplans
IT resilience IT disasterrecovery
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What might change?
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016
62% Expanding
remit beyond “traditional”
BCM
Who said these would become more important to BCM functions and professionals?
46% Defining
operational resilience for
the org
45% Working
closely with Risk Mgt
37% Working
closely with Security
53% Working
closely with InfoSec
42% Working
closely with IT
4% = less important2% = less important
3% = less important2% = less important
2% = less important
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Your next steps…
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016
59%62%
12%16%
21%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Remain withincurrent specialist
function
Remain withincurrent
organisation
Taking on a moreresponsibility in
the samedepartment
Taking on a moreresponsibility
across multipledepartments
Moving into adifferent field
Intentions of those who’ll move roles within 2 years
40% 26-35 year olds
Who wants to change roles
within 2 years?
30% 36-45 year olds
23% 45-55 year olds
21% 55-65 year olds
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Your career aspirations
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016
Responses included:
“Become Global Head of Resilience Team, complete PhD and create own Consultancy”
“Enjoy going to work on a Monday morning”
“Global Business Continuity Manager”
“Securing an Enterprise Risk Management senior position with a global organization.”
“Make enough money to retire as early as possible.”
Moving into a supply chain resilience role
Head the Enterprise Risk Program
Head of Organisational Resilience. Currently this position doesn't exist yet but it will do.
“Securing an Enterprise Risk Management senior position with a global organization.”
“Whilst many people may argue that BC skills are perfectly transferable to other roles... employers don't see it like that.. its pretty impossible for me now to anything else but BCM!”
I would like to become more focused on strategic and resilience planning than reactive BC response planning.
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Does “resilience” increase our career options?
Source: BCI/PwC Survey 2016
We asked if you the emerging interest in resilience provides increased career options for Business Continuity professionals. Who said yes?
60% 26-35 year olds
54% 36-45 year olds
55% 45-55 year olds
59% 55-65 year olds
67% 65+ year olds
56% say resilience
increases career options for BCM
professionals
Rising to
66% of those who
deliver BCM in-house
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If you would like a copy of the report when issued, to keep in touch, or to talk more about what the results might mean for your or your organisation, please feel free to connect with us on LinkedIn, email us, or find us at the conference or at Rebecca Robinson’s workshop at 14:00.
Can we help?
Deborah Higgins
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Charley Newnham
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