8 Tips for Building a Good Crisis Management Team
What kind of problems can it cause if your organization has the wrong people on its crisis management team? Nothing too serious, most likely. It could result in delayed or paralyzed decision-making, […]
Business Continuity Consulting: Now Available in Select-a-Size
Traditionally, business continuity consulting engagements have been one size fits all, with that size being large or comprehensive. In other words, if you wanted to hire a consultant to help your organization […]
How a BCM Professional Is Like a Family Doctor
Did you know that business continuity management professionals are a lot like family doctors? Let’s rephrase that: BCM professionals SHOULD conduct themselves like family doctors, in many important respects. The family doctor, […]
How Your Business Continuity Plan Is Like Swiss Cheese
If your business continuity plan is like most of the plans we see, then it is highly likely that it bears more than a passing resemblance to Swiss cheese. We don’t mean […]
Learning to Talk to Your IT/DR Colleagues
In some ways, the relationship between business continuity professionals and their colleagues from the information technology/disaster recovery team can be compared to that of a man who is drifting in a hot […]
Which Aspect of Business Continuity Is Most Important?
People often ask which aspect of business continuity management is most important. Is it crisis management? The recovery of critical business processes? Data recovery? Some people don’t even bother to ask the […]
Data Loss Is Inevitable: These Tips Will Help You Recover
If Ben Franklin had been around in our day, he might well have expressed his most famous quote a little bit differently. He might have said: “Nothing is certain but death, taxes, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]