MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. Business Continuity Manager: The individual with direct responsibility for the business continuity program.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most organizations recognize the importance of having a sound business continuity recovery plan, but many plans are undermined by the presence of overlooked weaknesses. In today’s post, we’ll look at 10 mistakes that companies commonly make in developing and implementing their BC plans. The document by itself is not sufficient.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

Reduce the Risk : a frequent, potentially damaging event is a target for risk reduction measures. Plan : Business Continuity Planning is often used to address risks that are of low probability, but the potential impact could cause business failure. An example is the development of procedures to reduce operator error.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

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!

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

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. The “business” will need to see IT as an integral part of their mission statement.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. In our experience at MHA, most organizations do pretty well with the tactical side of CM—writing plans to accomplish the CM priorities and executing on them when an event occurs.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer recommended. Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The past twenty-five years have seen a lot of changes in the world especially as pertains to business.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. We often hear people say, “We’re in the cloud, so we don’t have to an IT/DR plan.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

Reduce the Risk : a frequent, potentially damaging event is a target for risk reduction measures. Plan : Business Continuity Planning is often used to address risks that are of low probability, but the potential impact could cause business failure. An example is the development of procedures to reduce operator error.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

As a leading continuity-consulting firm to major private and public entities over the last thirteen (13) years, we have worked across many industries and seen varying levels of organizational preparedness in the event of an unplanned disruption due to natural, man-made or technological events. And yes, the companies recovered.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

Typically, a couple of these sessions will build the framework that you can use to create the detail events. Build the detailed timeline and list of events to occur based on the framework you developed with the Subject Matter Experts. Validate the exercise framework meets objectives.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

The ICS structure can be used in any organization and used anytime before, during or after an event (natural, man-made, technological) has occurred and needs to involve a coordinated response to resolve it. Finance Risk Management Legal We hope this helps you in implementing ICS in your organization.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In that event, businesses require a disaster recovery plan with best practices to restore hardware, applications, and data in time to meet the business recovery needs. What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? Why Do I Need One?

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

As a leading continuity-consulting firm to major private and public entities over the last thirteen (13) years, we have worked across many industries and seen varying levels of organizational preparedness in the event of an unplanned disruption due to natural, man-made or technological events. And yes, the companies recovered.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

Natural Disasters Hurricane/heavy winds and rain Tornado Earthquake Flood Fire Civil Crises Labor strike Workplace violence Serious supplier disruption Terrorist target neighbor (judiciary, military, federal, or diplomatic buildings) Limited or no property access Location Threats Nearby major highway, railway, pipeline Hazardous neighbor Offices above (..)

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

The ICS structure can be used in any organization and used anytime before, during or after an event (natural, man-made, technological) has occurred and needs to involve a coordinated response to resolve it. Finance Risk Management Legal We hope this helps you in implementing ICS in your organization.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rather than creating a separate plan for every type of event that could occur, it is advisable to create a basic emergency response checklist that can be used regardless of the emergency. There are numerous risks a company can face that will require an Emergency Response Plan. A response plan can cover a variety of emergencies.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

The application of incident or crisis management , for instance, removes the overly-spontaneous character of a crisis or an event. However, there are elements of ourselves and our organization that we can apply to seemingly “crazy out of our mind” moments. There is something humorous about the term “ organized chaos.”

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Business recovery and continuity of operations If we carry out reputation and stakeholder management, we can limit the impact of the cyber incident. This must be planned for an event where the organisation’s systems are down or cannot be accessed due to ransomware. Reputation and stakeholder management 2.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Business recovery and continuity of operations. This must be planned for an event where the organisation’s systems are down or cannot be accessed due to ransomware. Lastly, existing business recovery and continuity of operation plans should also be used during a cyber breach.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rather than creating a separate plan for every type of event that could occur, it is advisable to create a basic emergency response checklist that can be used regardless of the emergency. There are numerous risks a company can face that will require an Emergency Response Plan. A response plan can cover a variety of emergencies.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations. Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. ARTICLE SECTIONS.

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