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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

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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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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The 9 Best Books for Disaster Recovery Managers in 2022

Solutions Review

OUR TAKE: Author Regina Phelps is a widely renowned expert in the fields of crisis management, exercise design, and continuity and pandemic planning. Additionally, Phelps is the founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. ” GO TO BOOK. Book Title: Manager’s Guide to Crisis Management.

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Continuity Strategies to Support an Enterprise Resiliency Program

eBRP

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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What needs to be included in a business continuity plan checklist?

SRM

A few months ago, a global pandemic with the capacity to bring the world to a standstill was almost unthinkable. Business Continuity Management (BCM). Using the information gained from the first two stages, an overarching BCM strategy is then produced. Emergency Response Phase Procedures. Yet, here we are.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. 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 63: Tsunamis never catch fire.

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

MHA Consulting

The COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to suspend their IT/disaster recovery (DR) testing programs, but it is important to keep up with such testing. “You Still Need to Drill: IT/DR Testing Is as Important as Ever.” IT/DR testing is crucial for enabling organizations to verify that they can recover systems in the event of a disruption.