MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer recommended. Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The past twenty-five years have seen a lot of changes in the world especially as pertains to business.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. Right now, the pace of change in the broader society is as fast as I’ve ever seen it, and that looks to continue for the foreseeable future. I’ll explain what that is at the end. Operational resilience.

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BCM METRICS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on identifying and protecting their most essential business processes. Read on to learn about the BCM year in review.

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DRI Drive

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI), the leading nonprofit in business continuity and resilience training, has joined with Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) to develop a new report, “Covid-19: An Analysis of Leadership Styles and Outcomes.”

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Business continuity programs need to be agile in order to protect their organizations in today’s chaotic environment. Well-chosen BCM software can help a continuity program be more nimble and effective. It’s a critical BCM performance attribute. Unfortunately, many companies’ BCM programs are anything but agile.

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IT Governance BC

JULY 30, 2024

Having a business continuity plan [BCP] is invaluable, but you can’t foresee every type of event. Back in 2020, most organisations hadn’t planned for a pandemic, for example. Find out what your critical suppliers’ business continuity plans are – how proactive are they about service availability? And if so, how?

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 13, 2023

Business continuity professionals need to be sure their recovery plans and strategies are fully adapted to the new reality. Business continuity management (BCM) professionals hustled to adapt their recovery strategies and plans to the new workplace model. The answer is yes.

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Stratogrid Advisory

DECEMBER 14, 2019

BCM Trends for 2020! Readers Note: This article was originally published in December of 2019 and before unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. The Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) recently released its 4th Annual BCM Trends and Predictions Report , which provides predictions for resilience trends in 2019/2020. Cyber Threats.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 5, 2020

Remote Work and Business Continuity Planning Challenges. Before the Pandemic of 2020, we all knew that remote work is a viable option for many organizations. Due to the Pandemic impacts of business shutdowns in early March (here in Canada), many organizations were forced to flip the virtual switch.

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Castellan

MAY 16, 2022

While some companies sustained on-premises teams throughout the coronavirus pandemic—and some more have returned to that recently—many organizations still operate in a fully-remote or hybrid work environment. So, how do you mature your business continuity program alongside these work environment changes? DOWNLOAD NOW.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on identifying and protecting their most essential business processes. Read on to learn about the BCM year in review.

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SRM

MARCH 25, 2020

A few months ago, a global pandemic with the capacity to bring the world to a standstill was almost unthinkable. Those with high-level business continuity plans in place will be putting elements of these into action. Business Continuity Plan Checklist . Business Impact Assessment (BIA). Yet, here we are.

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Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

Before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, the U.S. business continuity industry saw an average of about 20-25 new job postings each week , with about 30-35 on average internationally. We even saw two weeks in the height of the pandemic reach 75 new job postings. Business Continuity Job Trends.

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Virtual Corporation

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fifty-one percent of organizations surveyed by Mercer Consulting were caught without business continuity plans when the current COVID pandemic erupted. Moreover, other surveys revealed the potentiality and impact of a pandemic were virtually ignored.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Book Title: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for InfoSec Managers. Gustin’s other works focus on the multi-faceted role of the facility manager and business owner in maintaining business continuity. Book Title: The Manager’s Guide to Business Continuity Exercises: Testing Your Plan.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) are often used together and interchangeably. Continued smooth operation is a fairy tale in the business world. This clearly links business functions and technology. An overseas vendor can’t deliver because its port is shut down because of a pandemic?

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is business continuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is business continuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Driving Blind: The Problem with Skipping the Threat and Risk Assessment The Need for Threat Intelligence Traditional business continuity methodology leans heavily on the threat and risk assessment or TRA, in which the organization identifies potential threats and ranks them in terms of likelihood and potential impact.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is business continuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

In business continuity, testing of all types can lay claim to a rare distinction: it is simultaneously one of the most important parts of any program, and one of the most neglected. They can benefit organizations by helping keep the recovery team personnel sharp and making business continuity part of the organization’s culture.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

In business continuity, testing of all types can lay claim to a rare distinction: it is simultaneously one of the most important parts of any program, and one of the most neglected. They can benefit organizations by helping keep the recovery team personnel sharp and making business continuity part of the organization’s culture.

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BCM METRICS

MARCH 2, 2022

Our current environment of rising global uncertainty is spurring organizations’ interest in business continuity and operational risk management. A Period of Rising Turbulence The pandemic might be tapering off, but the news from Ukraine […].

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eBRP

JANUARY 14, 2025

To build an Adaptive, Resilient Enterprise , organizations must move beyond conventional Business Continuity Management (BCM) approaches. Traditional BCM is often limited to tactical response plans, perceived simply as insurance policies that rarely spark high-level executive engagement.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack. Myth 36: In a biological terrorism attack or pandemic prophylaxis will be effective and efficient. Myth 38: The main effects of a CBRN attack or pandemic would necessarily be medical. Myth 47: Business continuity management only applies to the private sector.

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Castellan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Our BCM Trends data assessment (collected between 2009 to 2020) indicated a shift away from program placement within Information Technology (27% to 16%) in favor of Risk Management (11% to 22%). Integrating resilience management programs with other risk disciplines is increasing, but not yet pervasive.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The world is being rocked by overlapping crises and conflicts including the pandemic, economic uncertainty, the rise in extreme weather, the war in Ukraine, and rising tensions between the West and Russia and China, to name a few. It’s enough to make an organization leader or business continuity professional feel unwell.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2023

Look for knowledgeable, effective people from the corporate security, business continuity, human resources, and communications departments, among others. The first step is to identify the people who will take the lead in developing or updating your plan. It’s important to get the right SMEs (subject matter experts) involved.

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KingsBridge BCP

MAY 12, 2023

episodes come out every 2 weeks and they cover a variety of topics all about Business Continuity (of course). KISSBCP Podcast - Season 2 Episodes S2E12 When Things Sour Guest Paul Striedl joins Roswitha Firth to talk about how BCPs need to continue, even during times when they don't get activated. Our 15-25 min.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations. Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. Reading Time: 26 minutes.

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