Continuity Professionals, Management and Risk Management

These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management

MHA Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2023

As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. Second, we do not assess the risks to an organization with the expectation that every risk identified can or should be eliminated. Risk management is not one-size-fits all.

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Becoming Prepared to Deal with Any Disaster

Disaster Zone Podcast

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Eric Holdeman is a professional emergency manager who is passionate about providing information that can help families, businesses & governments become better prepared for disasters of all types. Hear first hand expert insights from Eric on his Podcast , Blog & EricHoldeman.com.

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Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In such times, the best thing an organization can do is get serious about risk management. Related on BCMMETRICS: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management An Unstable Global Environment Not since the height of the Cold War has the global environment felt as shaky as it does now.

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EP09: Adopting Adaptive Business Continuity | José M. Garay

The Failover Plan Podcast

AUGUST 24, 2020

Episode Summary: This week, we interview a user of the Adaptive Business Continuity (ABC) principles as a follow up to our episodes about ABC's founders a few weeks ago. Garay, a Business Continuity professional with more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector in Peru. Links: Jose Garay- LinkedIn.

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EP11: Is Business Continuity at a Crossroads? | James Green

The Failover Plan Podcast

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

James holds the MBCI designation from the Business Continuity Institute, the Certified Business Continuity Professional certification from the Disaster Recovery Institute International and is recognized as an Enterprise Risk Management Expert by the Credit Union National Association.

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EP18: The Bus is Coming! What do we do? | David Lindstedt Mark Armour James Green

The Failover Plan Podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Along with Mark Armour he founded AdaptiveBCP.org and authored Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach. He consults, teaches, and advises on project management and business continuity. Mark Armour is a business continuity leader with over 17 years of experience in the field.

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Reviewing the Five Types of Risk

MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

During COVID, business tended to focus on only two of the five risk types; however, organizations that want to prosper over the long term need to be cognizant of and plan for all five kinds of risk. In one respect, COVID continues to distort people’s approach to risk. Another pandemic could occur. Compliance.

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Business, Interrupted: Adopting New Skill Sets to Evolve as Continuity and Resilience Professionals

Castellan

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s a time of transformation and with that comes the need to continuously add to our skill sets, letting our experiences guide us toward opportunities to be ever-more prepared to deal with the next big disaster or disruption for our workplaces. They’re part of a larger goal—to ensure operational resilience with ongoing risk management.

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Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In enterprise risk management (ERM), risk is commonly divided into eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. Before we discuss the eight risk domains, there are three general points about risk management that are worth keeping in mind: 1. Hope is not a strategy.

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

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. This is all to the good.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” Inherent risk is what it is, but residual risk can be managed and reduced.

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Business, Interrupted: How Cross-Discipline Skills Contribute to Resilience Career Successes

Castellan

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

If you ask many business continuity professionals, their career paths were far from straight and direct. Few, like other professions, pursued a business continuity degree, graduated college, and landed a business continuity role right out of the gate. Resilience Throughout the Enterprise. The Benefits of a Mentor.

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Elevating the Role of Business Continuity: How to Make Your Program Essential

BryghtPath

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Risk management and resilience are becoming increasingly important to success in the dynamic business world. For business continuity professionals, ensuring their programs are recognized as essential components of an overall business strategy is critical.

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Think Defense: Learning from the Defense Dept. About Operational Risk

BCM METRICS

AUGUST 19, 2021

Business continuity professionals can learn a lot from the U.S. of Defense’s approach to operational risk management. In today’s post, I’ll summarize the DOD’s five-step approach to ORM and explain how each step might be helpful to your organization. Learning from the Military I’ve always admired the U.S.

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How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2022

As a business continuity professional, there are steps you can take before and during such an attack to help your organization get … The post How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack appeared first on MHA Consulting. Ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency and severity.

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Taking the Next Step from Business Continuity

Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For business continuity professionals, the goal is to protect the organization’s continuity of operations. Third-party management, for example, is not just about onboarding vendors, but also assessing them and understanding the vendor risks so that your organization can continue to deliver products and services, no matter what.

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Crisis Management With an Equity Lens

Business Resilience Decoded

JULY 29, 2021

Episode 73: Crisis Management with an Equity Lens Vanessa is on her own and speaking truth to power in this episode on crisis management and the ongoing racial-justice crisis. LINKS MENTIONED] • “Managing the Racial Wealth Gap Crisis” – [link] • “Achieving Resilience with Diversity and Inclusion” – [link] DRJ Webinars: • Aug.

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Crisis Management With an Equity Lens

Business Resilience Decoded

JULY 29, 2021

Episode 73: Crisis Management with an Equity Lens Vanessa is on her own and speaking truth to power in this episode on crisis management and the ongoing racial-justice crisis. LINKS MENTIONED] • “Managing the Racial Wealth Gap Crisis” – [link] • “Achieving Resilience with Diversity and Inclusion” – [link]. DRJ Webinars: • Aug.

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Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

With the ongoing criticism of the UK’s visa scheme for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine and the news that only a low number of refugees have been taken in so far, Charlie looks at dynamic risk assessments and the importance of managing incidents proactively, rather than reactively.

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Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

With the ongoing criticism of the UK’s visa scheme for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine and the news that only a low number of refugees have been taken in so far, Charlie looks at dynamic risk assessments and the importance of managing incidents proactively, rather than reactively. Use dynamic risk assessments.

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. But too often knowledge of these workarounds is confined to managers or supervisors. Many organizations plan on using manual workarounds if their systems go down. That’s fine.

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Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

As we have all managed responses to COVID, we know that the response is much, much more complex. If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared? If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared?

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Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

As we have all managed responses to COVID, we know that the response is much, much more complex. If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared? If we had a known threat, why weren’t business continuity professionals prepared?

Business Continuity

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A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI

MHA Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

In today’s blog, we’ll look at those risks from the point of view of a business consultant who specializes in technology and IT disaster recovery. I think the greatest and most challenging risks are those pertaining to data and functionality. The dangers associated with tools such as ChatGPT, while genuine, are familiar and manageable.

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Business Continuity in a Recession – What You Need to Know

Business Resilience Decoded

AUGUST 25, 2022

Episode 119: Business Continuity in a Recession – What You Need to Know This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Jon Seals, producer Jon Seals is the editor in chief at Disaster Recovery Journal, the leading magazine/event in business continuity.

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These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management

Becoming Prepared to Deal with Any Disaster

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Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management

EP09: Adopting Adaptive Business Continuity | José M. Garay

EP11: Is Business Continuity at a Crossroads? | James Green

EP18: The Bus is Coming! What do we do? | David Lindstedt Mark Armour James Green

Reviewing the Five Types of Risk

Business, Interrupted: Adopting New Skill Sets to Evolve as Continuity and Resilience Professionals

Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

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

Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk

Business, Interrupted: How Cross-Discipline Skills Contribute to Resilience Career Successes

Elevating the Role of Business Continuity: How to Make Your Program Essential

Think Defense: Learning from the Defense Dept. About Operational Risk

How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack

Taking the Next Step from Business Continuity

Crisis Management With an Equity Lens

Crisis Management With an Equity Lens

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?

Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?

A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI

Crisis Management With an Equity Lens

The Intersection of BCM and ERM

What to Expect in Business Continuity Employment for the Last Half of 2021

DRJ Fall 2022 Conference Recap

DRJ Fall 2022 Conference Recap

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?

Four Ways to Enhance Your BIAs

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup

Data Privacy Officer Responsibilities

A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

Strategic Communication Methods for DE & I

Strategic Communication Methods for DE & I

A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

Business, Interrupted: The Resilience Movement and the New Normal for Business Continuity

Business Continuity in a Recession – What You Need to Know

Business Continuity in a Recession – What You Need to Know

Business Continuity in a Recession – What You Need to Know

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