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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated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 […]
What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Risk
For most entrepreneurs, worrying about risk takes a back seat to bringing in revenue and building their company’s brand. This is natural. But as their companies grow, business owners can and should […]
Omission Accomplished: When Front-Line Workers Are Excluded from BCM Training
Many organizations seem to go out of their way to provide business continuity training to everyone—except the front-line workers who would most likely be the ones tasked with responding to a disruption. […]
Eat the Frog: Tackling the Tough BCM Challenges You Habitually Put Off
Almost every business continuity management program has gaps that are well-known to the BCM office but never addressed, usually because closing them would be hard. However, in many cases, tackling those BCM […]
After the BIA: Save Time and Money by Fine-Tuning Your Application RTOs
The business impact analysis (BIA) is a great tool, but after it is complete, organizations have an opportunity to potentially save time and resources by conducting a tightly focused, second-level review of […]
How to Get Business Units to Take Ownership of Their BCM Programs
One challenge familiar to every business continuity management professional is dealing with the business units’ attitude that business continuity is the BCM office’s responsibility, not theirs. Getting the business units to take […]
Be Ransomware Resilient: Know How to Operate Manually
A ransomware attack has the potential to leave your organization without its computer systems for days or weeks. Make your business ransomware resilient by figuring out how to perform your most mission-critical […]
What Service Providers Need to Know About Supply Chain Risk Management
Many service providers tune out talk about supply chain risk management since they think the issue only affects manufacturers and retailers. In fact, service providers are also vulnerable to vendor disruptions and […]
