Executive Management

From Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) Wiki Glossary

1. The Executive Management is the highest decision making level in the organization. This group or team is ultimately accountable for the organizational-wide BCM program. Note: The degree of success of the BCM program is essentially very dependent on the level of commitment from the Executive Management. This will ensure the appropriate resources and budget will be allocated to provide on-going support to sustain the BCM program. BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 0: BCM Fundamentals CL 1: Foundation

(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

2. Person or group of people who direct and control an organization at the highest level.

(Source: British Standard 25999 - BS25999)

3. The highest decision making level in the organization.

(Source: Singapore Standard 540 - SS 540:2008)