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, […]
Top 5 Reasons Why Most BIAs Are DOA
Do you know the main reasons that most Business Impact Analyses today are “Dead On Arrival”? I’ll tell you about bad BIAs in a moment. Before I do, however, I’d like to […]
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 […]
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 […]
5 Tips to Help You Identify the Right Impact Categories for Your BIA
Are you a BCM practitioner in the middle of configuring your BIA questionnaire? Are you scratching your head over the part about identifying the impact categories that are most relevant to your […]
BIA Interviews: 5 Tips for Streamlining the BIA
We’re helping you streamline your BIA, cutting it down from 8 to 4 hours or less for each business unit and maximizing your BIA interview. We veteran BCM professionals will need to […]
The Human Side of Conducting BIAs
One of the most interesting engagements MHA Consulting had this year was at a Fortune 500 company where 3 of our consultants conducted approximately 100 BIAs. Over the course of that engagement, […]
7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy
Many organizations struggle with establishing a sound business continuity strategy, a foundational aspect of a strong BC program. Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly […]
BIA and Risk Assessment: Why Both Are Important
Can you describe the differences and benefits of the BIA and Risk Assessment? Today’s short blog may help you provide answers when the questions arise. You just spent time completing a Business Impact […]
Convincing Management To Do a BIA
Those of us with feet on the ground understand the value BIA (Business Impact Analysis) data brings when it comes to strategy development and prioritization, but how can we convince resource/financial decision […]
10 Elements in a Business Impact Analysis Report
At a minimum, the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) management report should include the criticality ranking of business processes and associated systems/applications that have been derived from the study. However, there are additional […]
Back to the Basics – BCP 101
Developing a BCP program requires a sound methodology to ensure consistency of application and level of results. Using the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) model as our baseline, we break a typical […]
