Why You Should Schedule BIAs the Same Way You Do Dentist Appointments
Over the twenty years or so that I have been professionally engaged in the field of business continuity, I have noticed that most organizations fall into one of two categories when it […]
How Business Continuity Is Like a Tree: BCM and the Corporate Hierarchy
Managing a business continuity program is a job that puts unique political burdens on its practitioners, as you will be well aware if that’s what you do for a living. Few other […]
The Secret to a Successful BIA Interview: Get Their Information Ahead of Time
Once upon a time, there was a business continuity consulting firm that held business impact analysis interviews with their clients WITHOUT first getting them to gather and provide basic information about their […]
The 4-3-3 Rule for Writing Business Recovery Checklists
When it comes to your organization’s recovery plan, your business recovery checklists might just be the single most important ingredient. They are the engine of your recovery plan. As we state in […]
Building an Effective BCM Program: Step 1 – Know Yourself
A couple of months ago we published an ebook entitled “10 Keys to a Peak-Performing BCM Program,” written by MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera. It’s available for free download here and is […]
BIA Tips and Traps: 4 Things To Do — and 3 Things Not To Do — To Ensure Your BIA Is a Success
I recently saw an article that said the most commonly searched questions on Google in 2017 included “What is a solar eclipse?,” “What is bitcoin?,” and “What is a fidget spinner?” At […]
Command Performance: Using the Incident Command System (ICS)
Sometimes there is a good reason to reinvent the wheel—for example, if you are in business and the current “wheel” is a proprietary product controlled by your competitor. However, sometimes the tried-and-true […]
Standard Time: The Best Time to Choose a Business Continuity Standard Is Right Now
If I told you about something you could do that would swiftly vault your organization into the ranks of the elite, in terms of your business continuity management program, would you do […]
Beyond Hurricanes: 4 Examples of Recent, Real-Life Business Emergencies
It’s the rare workplace disaster that is dramatic enough to burst into the news. Most business emergencies are managed privately, with the outside world unaware that anything was ever wrong. This is […]
How to Weight Your BIA Impact Categories
In last week’s blog, we talked about the importance of identifying the right BIA impact categories for your business impact analysis. As a reminder, these are the six categories appropriate to your […]
Beginner’s Guide to Recovery Exercises
Recovery exercises are an undervalued but critically important aspect of business continuity. In this beginner’s guide to recovery exercises, we’ll provide answers to some of the questions we are most frequently asked […]