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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. It focused on identifying the most critical business processes and developing plans to keep those processes going or quickly restore them in the event of an outage.

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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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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

FFIEC is, of course, one of many standards that organizations can adopt and seek to come into alignment with to strengthen their BCM programs. However, of the five, the FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet is widely regarded as the toughest and best. The Gold Standard FFIEC is the most aggressive standard in the U.S.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

In deciding its risk tolerance level, management should analyze the cost to the organization of having its operations offline. An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

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What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review

MHA Consulting

Read on to learn about the BCM year in review. Try a Dose of Risk Management Getting Back in the Air This year, I’m glad to say, I returned to my prepandemic level of business travel. There’s a lot to be said for ruthless efficiency when it comes to BCM. Related on BCMMETRICS: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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The Ocado fire – when disaster recovery becomes real

IT Governance BC

Business continuity management. BCM (business continuity management) is a form of risk management that deals with the threat of business activities or processes being interrupted. Any downtime can be unacceptable given the pace of modern life, so it is essential for organisations to plan for disaster.

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

MHA Consulting

Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. 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. Try a Dose of Risk Management The post Who’s the Boss?