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, […]
Crisis Management Training: Elevate Your Team’s Response Skills
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 […]
Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains
In enterprise risk management (ERM), risk is commonly divided into eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. In today’s post, we’ll look at what these domains are, reveal which tend to get overlooked, and […]
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. […]
Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter
Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Time spent identifying and closing gaps in the organization’s preparedness is an […]
How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability management is the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology. It’s a practical, down-to-earth approach that focuses on small things, but it has the […]