Stratogrid Advisory

APRIL 12, 2020

Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 4 minutes Readers note: Please check our recently published high-level Business Continuity Planning guide. It must work for the client, and not just for a process-driven BCM Consulting firm.

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Stratogrid Advisory

APRIL 12, 2020

Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations. Readers note: Please check our recently published high-level Business Continuity Planning guide. . These plans must address BCM Program requirements, including Emergency Management Procedures (e.g. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. Every organization’s crisis management plan must include a crisis communications plan and strategy. Here are eight tips to help you protect your brand in a crisis: Become brand-aware.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Client : The client is a leading financial risk management organization to the major banking and financial institutions across the United States. The organization is highly regulated and must meet stringent Business Continuity Planning (BCP) guidelines for financial institutions as well as those of its customers.

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Castellan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Business continuity software is purpose-built to help your organization manage all phases of your business continuity management lifecycle, from developing and managing plans to responding to incidents. When specifying and purchasing business continuity software there are a few key points to consider.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2023

As business continuity consultants, we at MHA often encounter a situation we call “inviting by title,” which is when our contact at the client company has us meet with high-level company executives rather than mid-level employees with detailed tactical knowledge. or “What systems does finance use to execute process X?”).

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2024

Business Continuity as a Service (BCaaS) is based on the SaaS concept, but it differs from it in several key respects, as we’ll explore in today’s post. Business Continuity as a Service (BCaaS) brings the philosophy and benefits of SaaS and DRaaS to the provision of business continuity services.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Book Title: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for InfoSec Managers. Rittinghouse is a management consultant for large enterprises as well as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Homeland Security Network Reliability and Interoperability Council Focus Group on Cybersecurity. ” GO TO BOOK.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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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 planning is a social activity. Crisis Management. Extraversion. Intellectual Openness.

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BryghtPath

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As businesses face an increasingly unpredictable global environment, the importance of robust and adaptive Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) has become more pronounced.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery The Price of Neglecting IT/DR Being a business continuity consultant can be frustrating. IT Infrastructure Experts.

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BryghtPath

DECEMBER 17, 2024

From crippling cyberattacks to extreme weather events, geopolitical conflicts, and critical third-party failures, this year has highlighted the vulnerabilities in many business operations while emphasizing the value of robust business continuity planning.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

FFIEC in our industry is best known for providing the business continuity management standard that U.S. It is also comprehensive, covering all phases of the BCM program lifecycle, including risk assessment, business impact analysis, crisis management, cyber response, strategy development, plan development, testing, and maintenance.

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FEI

JULY 9, 2020

As an operations specialist with FEI’s crisis management team, I assist our customers by integrating our crisis support services into their business continuity planning. Preventing a crisis is always best but not always possible. Business continuity. COVID-19 is the perfect example.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 13, 2024

Any organization that invests time and effort into improving its resilience is to be commended, but unfortunately many companies prioritize the wrong things in their business continuity endeavors. In today’s post we’ll look at the three most important aspects of business continuity—and share a bonus fourth item that applies to all of them.

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BryghtPath

JANUARY 14, 2025

Training has become a cornerstone of effective business continuity planning. A well-trained team can make the difference between seamless recovery and costly downtime in the face of disruptions.

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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. The time to better prepared is now.

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Oz's Business Continuity Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I don’t get out much these days. Global pandemics tend to curtail one’s business travel, I find. Which is unfortunate for a couple of reasons, aside from the obvious one that pandemics can be bad for your health. Firstly it […].

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MHA Consulting

JULY 15, 2021

Tabletop exercises are commonly associated with crisis management training; however, there are many other situations where they can provide significant value at modest cost. In today’s post, we’ll look at … The post Table Service: 8 Ways Tabletop Exercises Can Benefit Your Company appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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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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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. In our consulting firm, we have a high degree of familiarity as the majority of us have worked together over 10 years.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 19, 2023

To round off a fantastic BCAW, Consultant Chloe Mclaughlin, explores the topic of organisational resilience. By identifying potential risks, developing plans to mitigate those risk and establishing effective crisis management protocols, organisations can minimise disruption, ensure business continuity and enhance their reputation.

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everbridge

APRIL 29, 2022

This is where the leadership skills of emergency managers come into play. Seven Essential Skills for Effective Crisis Management. In crisis situations, leaders cannot be married to a single strategy. How then, can organizations be prepared for emergencies and critical events? Emergency response is never static.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We have been proudly working with WEB Aruba to help them create crisis management plans and run exercises. WEB Aruba organises ‘water rationing plan’ exercise How prepared are we in the event that water production and distribution comes to a stop at WEB? The exercise forms part of WEB’s ‘Business Continuity Plan.’

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We have been proudly working with WEB Aruba to help them create crisis management plans and run exercises. WEB Aruba organises ‘water rationing plan’ exercise. This week, the Crisis Management Department at WEB organized a rationing plan exercise. This is not the first exercise related to crisis.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic Capability’.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic Capability’.

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Oz's Business Continuity Blog

JULY 7, 2023

I recently found myself on an early morning train to London. Aside from having to get up at a time starting with a four, an activity verging on the tortuous for an inveterate non-morning person, it was a tad unusual, […]

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 28, 2024

In times of crisis, a comprehensive business continuity plan ensures that every facet of the organization is resilient. Myth 2: Business Continuity Plans Are Only for Large Enterprises. Size doesn’t dictate the need for business continuity. Myth 17: Business Continuity Consultants are Unaffordable.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The business continuity management professional is unlikely to play a hands-on role in managing social media during a crisis. However, the BCM pro has a key part to play as … The post The BCM Pro’s Role in Managing Social Media During a Crisis appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Everyone knows business continuity planning can help organizations prepare for emergencies. Try a Dose of Risk Management The post More Than Meets the Eye: The Hidden Benefits of BC Planning appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2021

These … The post Hit or Myth: 5 Common Misconceptions About IT/disaster recovery appeared first on MHA Consulting. Today we’re going to look at five commonly held myths about IT/disaster recovery.

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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. The time to better prepared is now.

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