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. Most companies have a pretty good handle on the tactical side of crisis management. However, relatively few are mindful of the strategic side of crisis management.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. 4: Not figuring out and documenting the integration between the recovery plan and the organization’s other plans. The recovery plan does not live in a vacuum.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the first bulletin of his new ‘Business Continuity 2025’ series, Charlie discusses what incidents might look like in 2025. I intend to write a series of bulletins over the next few months where I imagine what business continuity might look like in 2025.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the first bulletin of his new ‘Business Continuity 2025’ series, Charlie discusses what incidents might look like in 2025. I intend to write a series of bulletins over the next few months where I imagine what business continuity might look like in 2025.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

The key to Operational Risk Management lies in the understanding and management of two important concepts: Loss and Probability. It is most important to understand risk before you begin to manage it. The post How Can We Manage Operational Risk? appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

The key to Operational Risk Management lies in the understanding and management of two important concepts: Loss and Probability. It is most important to understand risk before you begin to manage it. The post How Can We Manage Operational Risk? appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this environment, prudent business continuity professionals will want to make sure their organizations are reassessing their weather-related risks and preparing accordingly. Business continuity professionals should make it a priority to continually reassess the weather-related threats to their organizations and prepare accordingly.

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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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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.

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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

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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everbridge

AUGUST 11, 2021

PwC’s analysis is important for organizations who want to improve their critical event management plans so that when the next crisis arises, the right actions can be taken by the right people at the right time to help protect a company’s assets, people, and business operations while reducing business recovery time and costs.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

Accept the Risk : for rarely occurring, low-impact risks that are unlikely to jeopardize the business, it may be reasonable to accept the risk. Manage the Risk : for frequently occurring, low-impact risks the most sensible strategy is to monitor and seek to reduce the risk.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

Conduct a work area recovery simulation at the recovery site. Conduct an executive recovery plan exercise with all simulations. Review Business Continuity Plans of key vendors. All managers submit a signed report that their recovery plans are up to date. Conduct a pandemic table-top exercise.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This week Charlie discusses why it is important for senior managers to be involved in cyber incident management. It also nicely ties in with my preparation and update of our ‘Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents’ course, which takes place on the 4th-5th March 2019, in London. Reputation and stakeholder management 2.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This week Charlie discusses why it is important for senior managers to be involved in cyber incident management. It also nicely ties in with my preparation and update of our ‘Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents’ course, which takes place on the 4th-5th March 2019, in London. Reputation and stakeholder management.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 29, 2021

You can’t have a good business continuity management or BCM program without the core elements of BIAs, TRAs, recovery plans, and exercises, but it’s possible that the most important element … The post The Best Policy: The Core Element of a Good BCM Program Is Honesty appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Oz's Business Continuity Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The last few weeks have been quite busy – and, at times, a teeny bit stressful. I’ve prepared and facilitated four crisis management and business recovery exercises (two of which included actors and journalists and mock TV and radio news […].

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

Accept the Risk : for rarely occurring, low-impact risks that are unlikely to jeopardize the business, it may be reasonable to accept the risk. Manage the Risk : for frequently occurring, low-impact risks the most sensible strategy is to monitor and seek to reduce the risk.

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Stratogrid Advisory

APRIL 18, 2020

What is a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)? The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a cornerstone of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program. The Risk Assessment can be completed by using a traditional Operational Risk Management (ORM) methodology, or an All-Hazards Risk Assessment (AHRA) approach.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 18, 2022

Many organizations seem to go out of their way to provide business continuity training to everyone—except the front-line workers who would most likely be the ones tasked with responding to … The post Omission Accomplished: When Front-Line Workers Are Excluded from BCM Training appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Solutions Review’s listing of the best business continuity software is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd. To make your search a little easier, we’ve profiled the best business continuity software providers all in one place.

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Stratogrid Advisory

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 3 minutes When asked about their organization’s IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) plans, some will smile and say, “Yes, we have a backup and it is fully outsourced.” Some functions may have manual workarounds, but many tasks cannot be performed without the available IT systems.

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Stratogrid Advisory

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When asked about their organization’s IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) plans, some will smile and say, “Yes, we have a backup and it is fully outsourced.” This type of response will set off a few red flags with the Business Continuity Planners, but many organizations do not understand why it is so problematic. IT Disaster Recovery.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 7, 2022

In everyday life, stress is usually regarded in a negative light, but in business continuity management, stress testing your recovery plans can play a very positive role in improving an … The post The Benefits of Stressing Out: Why You Should Stress Test Your Recovery Plans appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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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? Identify critical software applications, hardware, and data required to run a data recovery plan.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

However, based on our study of our customers over the last thirteen (13) years, the key criteria for success of continuity programs is: Management Support -How effective is the management support to the program? It is regular, effective and business driven?

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

ICS enables integrated communication and planning by establishing a manageable span of control. Finance Risk Management Legal We hope this helps you in implementing ICS in your organization. This week we are building off of these ideas and seeing how a typical ICS structure may look for a corporation.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

Managing an enterprise BCM program requires BCM Practitioners to address many program initiatives and tasks that must must seamlessly work together. In today’s high pressure environment, we see BCM Practitioners being overrun with not only managing the program daily but dealing with external influences (e.g, that take up their time.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

In our role of BCM, we deal with a number of different teams including Fire Life Safety, Crisis Management, Business and IT Recovery Teams, etc. Maintaining familairity consistency across team members is difficult as existing team members leave and new members arrive.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

The following is a basic set of emergency tasks: Protect Personnel Contain Incident Implement Command and Control (Emergency Response Team, Crisis Management Team step in) Your emergency response team should have defined roles and responsibilities for team members.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

However, based on our study of our customers over the last thirteen (13) years, the key criteria for success of continuity programs is: Management Support -How effective is the management support to the program? It is regular, effective and business driven?

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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. Systematic organization of a team, or of resources, or of an incident management process provides for a planned result. There is something humorous about the term “ organized chaos.”

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

ICS enables integrated communication and planning by establishing a manageable span of control. Finance Risk Management Legal We hope this helps you in implementing ICS in your organization. This week we are building off of these ideas and seeing how a typical ICS structure may look for a corporation.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

The following is a basic set of emergency tasks: Protect Personnel Contain Incident Implement Command and Control (Emergency Response Team, Crisis Management Team step in) Your emergency response team should have defined roles and responsibilities for team members.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2024

As BCM Practitioners we are often required to dream up, plan, implement and facilitate a mock disaster exercise for our Crisis Management teams. The planning process is crucial to developing an exercise that meets the needs of your organization.

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