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Navigating Resilience: How to Create a BCM Roadmap 

MHA Consulting

The business continuity management roadmap is a simple but powerful tool that can help organizations strengthen their BCM programs and enhance their resilience. In today’s post, we’ll lay out an eight-step process your company can use to create its own, customized BCM roadmap. This is what a BCM roadmap is and does.

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How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management

MHA Consulting

Vulnerability management is the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology. Then we work with the client on devising a plan to mitigate those weaknesses—and do all we can to get them to follow through on the plan (otherwise, what’s the point?).

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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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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

MHA Consulting

Most of these have had demonstrable impacts on the practice of business continuity management (BCM), rendering some traditional practices obsolete and ushering in new concerns and techniques. It’s interesting to look at BCM practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer regarded as beneficial or sufficient.

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Planning to Reduce Crisis Overload

Bernstein Crisis Management

To prevent crises where it’s possible, and mitigate their impact where it’s not, businesses must invest in comprehensive crisis planning that addresses these areas of vulnerability. By engaging in what we call a vulnerability audit , businesses can gain a deeper understanding of the potential risks they face.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied. Putting it in mathematical terms: (Inherent risk) – (the risk eliminated by your mitigation controls) = residual risk. A related but higher level concept is that of risk mitigation strategies. Risk avoidance. Risk limitation.