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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

Introduction to Business Continuity Planning. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) should be one of the top priorities for organization leaders. BCP is one of the components of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program which should be implemented in organizations of all sizes. Reading Time: 6 minutes.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

These are adapted from Chapter 6: “Crisis Communications: Sharing Information and Protecting Your Brand,” in Crisis Management: A Handbook for BCM Professionals, by myself and Michael Herrera; available for free download here.) Free Ebook Crisis Management: A Handbook for BCM Professionals.

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Threats, Impacts, BCPs

eBRP

Within Business Continuity circles there is ongoing debate about the relevance and role of Risk Assessment in developing a BCM program. In the Planning phase those threats influence the formulation of resumption strategies, and subsequent development of BCPs.

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

But one thing we find a lot is that organizations with elaborate BC programs—they’ve done lots of BIAs and have extensive plans and other documentation—are often not nearly as resilient as they think they are. The issue, more often than not, is that their operations and response plans are riddled with unidentified gaps.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) breaks Business Continuity Plan testing down into four types: tabletop exercise/structured walk-through tests, walk-through drills/simulation tests, functional drills/parallel tests, and full-interruption/full-scale tests.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) breaks Business Continuity Plan testing down into four types: tabletop exercise/structured walk-through tests, walk-through drills/simulation tests, functional drills/parallel tests, and full-interruption/full-scale tests.

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Business Continuity and ‘Emergency Response’

Plan B Consulting

The plant health and safety team were responsible for writing the emergency response plan and had oil clean up equipment and trained personnel. It very quickly became obvious to me that I have focussed too much on planning for PPRS incidents and not looked at the wider range of incidents which could affect the plant.