Organization

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

1. Organization refers to the institution undertaking the BCM or DR activities unless further qualified. BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 0: BCM Fundamentals CL 1: Foundation

(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

2. Group of people and facilities with an arrangement of responsibilities, authorities and relationships.

(Source: British Standard BS25999-1:2006 Code of Practice for Business Continuity Management)

3. An enterprise, a corporate entity; a firm, an establishment, a public or government body, department or agency; a business or a charity.

(Source: Business Continuity Institute - BCI)

4. A group of people and facilities with an arrangement of responsibilities,authorities and relationships.

EXAMPLE:Includes company,corporation,firm,enterprise,institution,charity,sole trader,association,or parts or combination thereof.

NOTE 1:The arrangement is generally orderly.

NOTE 2:An organization can be public or private.

NOTE 3:This definition is valid for the purposes of quality management system standards. The term 'organization' is defined differently in ISO/IEC Guide 2.

(AS/NZS ISO 9000)

(Source: HB 221:2004 Business Continuity Management)

5. A company,firm,organization,association,group or other legal entity or part thereof whether incorporated or not,public or private that has its own function(s) and administration.

(Source: Australia. A Practitioner's Guide to Business Continuity Management HB292 - 2006 )