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In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.
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His current focus is establishing and implementing the Global Resilience program which focuses on improving the maturity of Business Continuity and crisis/major incident management in the organization. We will get to hear how he's applied that work into his professional life. Links: Linkedin. .
The same thing is true of organizations and business continuityprofessionals. Further Reading We’ve written a lot on how the field of BC is changing and what it takes to thrive as a BC professional in the current environment.
John is ITIL certified and a Certified Business ContinuityProfessional. Edwards Deming Institute - The Red Bead Experiment is good for BCDR professionals because it shows the importance of knowing how the system handicaps employees and kills efficiency. Important Links: Linkedin.
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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 continuityprofessionals reduce their organizations’ risks and bolster their resilience.
Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuityprofessionals. The job of the BCMprofessional 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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Many business management disciplines, including Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM), contribute to continuous improvement and safeguards of the organization’s resources and strategic goals. And what are the organization’s business continuity requirements?
Many business management disciplines, including Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM), contribute to continuous improvement and safeguards of the organization’s resources and strategic goals. Start with a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program. Newsletter.
Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuityprofessional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?
Why is so "darn" hard to engage IT Organization in Business Continuity efforts??? Last Updated on June 15, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 5 minutes In our previous articles , we outlined the reasons why the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program is essential to your organization. It’s happening everywhere!
Why is so "darn" hard to engage IT Organization in Business Continuity efforts??? In our previous articles , we outlined the reasons why the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program is essential to your organization. I spoke with many Business ContinuityProfessionals, and this seems to be the case in many organizations.
Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide. While we’ve talked with several business continuityprofessionals 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.
It’s enough to make an organization leader or business continuityprofessional feel unwell. Leaders and business continuityprofessionals are justified in feeling uneasy about what the future might hold. The bottom line is, if you don’t currently have a sound risk mitigation program, get started as soon as you can.
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How can you as a business continuityprofessional help protect your organization against these threats? Such information might be produced as a result of an innocent mistake by a system or person or be the result of a deliberate attack. A detailed discussion will have to wait.
If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuityprofessionals prepared? Business continuityprofessionals 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.
If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuityprofessionals prepared? Business continuityprofessionals 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.
For these reasons, it’s important that IT departments (and business continuityprofessionals) make sure their organizations are capable of restoring their IT services after an outage. There are four main phases involved in doing this. Let’s look at them one by one.
If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuityprofessionals prepared? Business continuityprofessionals 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.
Additional plans could include: Cyber incident management plans Product recall Kidnap or travel security plans Hurricane plan We need to make sure our response will work The point I am trying to make is that as business continuityprofessionals, we need to make sure that if we want a response to work, we need to develop the capability to make sure (..)
The root of the problem is not necessarily a lack of tools or a consultant’s engagement approach, but rather the fact that senior management has much more to worry about than business continuity planning efforts. Engagement from senior leadership is imperative to business continuity planning efforts.
The root of the problem is not necessarily a lack of tools or a consultant’s engagement approach, but rather the fact that senior management has much more to worry about than business continuity planning efforts. Engagement from senior leadership is imperative to business continuity planning efforts. Business Continuity Management.
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).
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.
With the election approaching, Charlie discusses its relevance to business continuityprofessionals 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 continuityprofessionals in today’s bulletin.
With the election approaching, Charlie discusses its relevance to business continuityprofessionals 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 continuityprofessionals in today’s bulletin.
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