All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources
We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. In today’s post, we list, […]
CMT 101: Crisis Management Team Roles
The consequences of having the wrong people on your corporate crisis management team can be severe. In today’s post, we’ll look at the departments that need to be represented on your organization’s […]
Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes
Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. In today’s post, we’ll look at this and four other mistakes […]
The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery
The rise in the use of third-party computing services has given many companies a false sense of security regarding the recoverability of their IT systems. In today’s post we’ll look at why […]
Navigating Resilience: How to Create a BCM Roadmap
The business continuity management roadmap is a simple but powerful tool that can help organizations strengthen their BCM programs and enhance their resilience. In today’s post, we’ll lay out an eight-step process […]
BCM Basics: “Continuity” Defined
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. People new to our field are often puzzled by […]
Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals
For those with a suitable temperament and skill set, a career in risk management can be rewarding due to the field’s broad scope, consequential nature, and rising prominence. In this week’s post, […]
The Only Guide to Crisis Management Training You’ll Ever Need
Many executives think practice is for grinds and star performers do things by the seat of their pants, but when it comes to crisis management, this approach is a good way to […]
The Common Mistake of “Inviting by Title”
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 […]
These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management
As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. In today’s post, we’ll lay out what these domains are, reveal which ones […]
The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional
Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct. The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. In today’s post, we’ll […]
Risk Governance: To Stay Safe, Write Policies Addressing These Five Areas
Whether the company you work for has five employees or 5,000, it should have a risk governance program. Specifically, it should have policies and procedures covering the five key areas of data […]
Lessons from Troubled BIAs: Learning from Other Companies’ Mistakes
Sometimes MHA is tasked with picking up the pieces after Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) conducted by companies or other consulting firms go off-track. These incidents can be painful for the client and […]
Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do
It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. […]
