Management principles of ISO in Business Continuity Management:

Effective integration of ISO to the basic management   principles (planning, controlling leading and organizing) leads to effective business continuity management.

According to this study the perfect approach to business continuity managements with an integration of management principles of ISO should involve the design of a business continuity process. This involves the four fundamental regions which are--

• Assessment of the possible threat
• Continuity planning
• Disaster recovery
• Contingency planning

  The ISO standards focused in this study are:

ISO 9000                  ISO 20000                ISO 15489      ISO 28000ISO 9000/2000         ISO 19770                ISO 15408      ISO 9000(3)ISO /PAS28000        ISO/IEC TR 18044   ISO 13335      ISO 12207ISO 17799/2005        ISO 18043               ISO 27001      ISO 21827

Quality management principles:

The eight quality management principles are defined in ISO 9000:2000, Quality management systems Fundamentals and vocabulary, and in ISO 9004:2000, Quality management systems Guidelines for performance improvements.  This document gives the standardized descriptions of the principles as they appear in ISO 9000:2000 and ISO 9004:2000. In addition, it provides examples of the benefits derived from their use and of actions that managers typically take in applying the principles to improve their organizations' performance.

•  Principle 1 Customer focus
•  Principle 2 Leadership
•  Principle 3 Involvement of people
•  Principle 4 Process approach
•  Principle 5 System approach to management
•  Principle 6 Continual improvement
•  Principle 7 Factual approach to decision making
•  Principle 8 Mutually beneficial supplier relationships
•  The next step