MHA Consulting

APRIL 6, 2023

One of the most common complaints from my consulting clients is that doing a formal business impact analysis, or BIA, is a waste of time. You don’t mind if your business continuity management (BCM) program is built on sand. The BIA is often referred to as the foundation of BCM program. They are only as strong as the BIA.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll lay out what these domains are, reveal which ones tend to get overlooked, and explain how knowing about the domains can help business continuity professionals reduce their organizations’ risks and bolster their resilience.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. The job of the gap hunter is to identify gaps that might keep them from working—and to close them.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. The job of the BCM professional is to inform management of the risk situation and press them to make a decision on how much risk they are willing to live with. Do not water down the message.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 5 minutes There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. And what are the organization’s business continuity requirements?

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup. There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Have you tried to search for the terms “Business Continuity” or “ Business Continuity Planning ” on Google or Bing search engines recently?

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 31, 2019

Lack of Innovation Critics often feel that the field of business continuity planning has somewhat stagnated, and they are right to a certain extent. Many consultants are stuck in the past, and they refuse to acknowledge that modern problems require modern solutions and a more agile approach in resolving them. Here are some of them: 1.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 31, 2019

Critics often feel that the field of business continuity planning has somewhat stagnated, and they are right to a certain extent. Many consultants are stuck in the past, and they refuse to acknowledge that modern problems require modern solutions and a more agile approach in resolving them. Business Continuity Management.

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Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide. While we’ve talked with several business continuity professionals who say they’re working through pandemic burnout, the new 2021 BCM Compensation Report published in partnership with the BCI, indicates many remained resilient and stayed with their organizations through the past year.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It’s enough to make an organization leader or business continuity professional feel unwell. It’s certainly on mine, not only in my role as a business continuity consultant but also as a business owner and CEO. Leaders and business continuity professionals are justified in feeling uneasy about what the future might hold.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

In today’s blog, we’ll look at those risks from the point of view of a business consultant who specializes in technology and IT disaster recovery. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? How can you as a business continuity professional help protect your organization against these threats?

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Learning to Talk to Your IT/DR Colleagues Knowing How to Recover Is Still Important With the migration toward cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), many organizations have grown complacent about IT/DR. There are four main phases involved in doing this. Let’s look at them one by one.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared? Business continuity professionals that were involved in the response became glorified admin people, carrying out a whole load of tasks in response to the actions decided by the COVID response team. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared? Business continuity professionals that were involved in the response became glorified admin people, carrying out a whole load of tasks in response to the actions decided by the COVID response team. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared? Business continuity professionals that were involved in the response became glorified admin people, carrying out a whole load of tasks in response to the actions decided by the COVID response team. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 10, 2021

I think there is nothing more dangerous for a business continuity manager than everyone in the organisation thinking that they have a response all sorted and ready to go but when called upon the capability is not built and the recovery fails. The post Business Continuity Capability – What is it and do I need it?

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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. It requires a budget and long-term commitment (hence why it is a BCM Program).

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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. Section 2 - Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Implementation.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2019

With the election approaching, Charlie discusses its relevance to business continuity professionals and how we should deal with incidents in a post-truth world. As the election stumbles to its conclusion next Thursday, I thought I should comment on its relevance to us business continuity professionals in today’s bulletin.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2019

With the election approaching, Charlie discusses its relevance to business continuity professionals and how we should deal with incidents in a post-truth world. As the election stumbles to its conclusion next Thursday, I thought I should comment on its relevance to us business continuity professionals in today’s bulletin.

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