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 […]
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 […]
Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated
The past couple of decades have seen huge changes in the world and our field. Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or […]
Optimizing Your BC Program for the Permanent Hybrid Work Model
The hybrid workplace model is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. Business continuity professionals need to be sure their recovery plans and strategies are fully adapted to the new […]
The Retro Revolution: Why Manual Workarounds Are a BC Must
Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. Related on BCMMETRICS: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get […]
Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management
For the past few years the news has been a drumbeat of threatening events—and the beat seems to be growing louder. In such times, the best thing an organization can do is […]
Out of the Loop: When the BCM Office is the Last to Know
Here is an irony for you: at many organizations, the business continuity office is often the last to know when something happens that threatens to disrupt the business. The cause of this […]
Say Hello to VOI: The Best Way to Assess the Value of Your BCM Program
There’s a good reason business loves the concept of return on investment (ROI); it expresses the worth of an activity in terms everyone understands: dollars. However, in evaluating intangible assets such as […]
Plan B: As the Recovery Plan Fades, What Will Take Its Place?
The recovery plan has been the cornerstone of business continuity management (BCM) from the beginning, but its relevance is on the wane. I’ve been thinking a lot about what should take its […]
Our Complex World Demands a “Team of Teams”
People often suggest books for me to read, and when I read them, I wonder what they have to do with what I do or the business world. But Team of Teams […]
Reading the Road Ahead: A BCM Dashboard for 2022
The pedal is to the metal and we are about to leave 2021 in the dust. Here’s a verbal dashboard to give you an idea of what might lie ahead for your […]
