MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery.

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Disaster Recovery BCM Business Continuity Manufacturing 109

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. The roles that should be represented on a company’s BCM team change over time depending on the maturity of the program.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Crisis Management 100

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Leaders commonly do not have time to participate in training and awareness activities or believe they are unnecessary (because “we solve problems every day”). Training and awareness.

Crisis Management 90

Crisis Management Strategic BCM Management 90

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. It’s not hard to spend hundreds of hours a year doing BIAs, gap analyses, and risk assessments and developing recovery strategies and writing recovery plans. Pursued purposefully these are all worthwhile activities.

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Entertainment Business Continuity Activation BCM 108

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation.

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Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 85

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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Outage Airlines Consulting Vulnerability 89

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization. It can be overwhelming if your organization has never implemented a robust business continuity program. Note : Some sections of this article were previously published in our blog archives.

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Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis BCP 52